Software engineering specialist

Randstad Technologies Recruitment; City Of London; On-site; GBP 111,000 - 138,000; Part time

Job summary

Randstad Technologies Recruitment in London is seeking a Senior Platform & Automation Engineer with a developer background and DV clearance. You will own and evolve our core infrastructure, driving automation across the stack through unified CI/CD pipelines.

The role emphasizes IaC with Terraform and Ansible, Python-based automation, and provisioning across observability, security, and container ecosystems, with a hybrid work arrangement.

Qualifications

• Strong background in software engineering or development with hands-on Python.
• Proven experience with Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid Enterprise Linux (RHEL) experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible.
• Develop custom automation tools, internal CLI systems, and Python scripts.
• Manage standard CI/CD pipelines, shipping software and infrastructure changes.
• Automate provisioning and configuration across observability, security, and container tooling.

Skills

Python

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD pipelines

RHEL Linux

Tools

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Job description

Senior Platform / Automation Engineer (Developer Background) (DV CLEARANCE)

Location: London, Manchester, Ipswich, and Cheltenham.

Role Type: 6 Months Contract and Hybrid role.

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Platform & Automation Engineer who combines strong software engineering fundamentals with deep infrastructure-as-code (IaC) expertise. You will own and evolve our core infrastructure, driving automation across our entire technical stack-all delivered seamlessly through unified CI/CD pipelines.

This role requires a developer background (strong Python) to ensure our infrastructure code and automation workflows adhere to modern software design standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure as Code: Design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible.
• Automation & Scripting: Develop custom automation tools, internal CLI systems, and integration scripts primarily in Python.
• CI/CD Orchestration: Manage standard continuous delivery pipelines, integrating infrastructure updates, container deployments, and tool setups directly into developer workflows.
• Tech Stack Delivery: Automate the provisioning and configuration of our operational ecosystem, including tools across observability (Prometheus, Elastic, Checkmk), security/compliance (Tenable, Red Hat Satellite), service registry/IPAM (NetBox), container orchestration (ArgoCD), and artifact management (Artifactory, GitLab).
• Engineering Standards: Apply developer methodologies-such as version control, code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD-to all infrastructure configurations.

Required Skills & Experience

• Software Development Foundation: Strong background in software engineering or development, with hands-on coding experience in Python.
• Core IaC Expertise: Proven experience with Terraform (provisioning) and Ansible (configuration management).
• Pipeline Delivery: Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar) to ship both software and infrastructure changes.
• Linux Environment: Solid understanding of Enterprise Linux environments (e.g., RHEL).