About this role
Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year
Requirements
- Strong commercial Python development experience
- Experience building automation tools, frameworks or platforms
- Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience
- Experience with AWS cloud services
- Puppet configuration management experience
- CI/CD and DevOps automation experience
- Passion for engineering best practices, testing and code quality
- Experience working in cloud and hybrid infrastructure environments
Responsibilities
- Build automation frameworks and tooling using Python
- Develop Infrastructure as Code solutions with Terraform
- Create reusable templates and code generation platforms using Jinja2
- Automate Windows environments through PowerShell
- Manage and improve configuration management with Puppet
- Build CI/CD integrations for infrastructure delivery
- Work with cloud, platform and engineering teams to improve automation and operational efficiency
- Drive infrastructure standardisation, reliability and scalability across complex environments
Technologies
- AWS
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevOps
- PowerShell
- Puppet
- Python
- Terraform
- Windows
More
We are recruiting a Senior Python Software Engineer for a significant government technology project, building secure enterprise customer platforms used by critical organisations. This software engineering-focused role involves complex cloud infrastructure, automation and platform engineering challenges. The position is based in London or Southampton, with a hybrid arrangement requiring two days onsite. Compensation is £100,000 plus an 8–10% bonus and private medical cover. Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy.
last updated 43 week of 2026