About this role
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements
- Active Security Clearance (SC)
- Strong Python development experience
- Hands-on experience using boto3 and AWS SDKs
- Strong experience with AWS Lambda, EC2, S3, SQS, DynamoDB and CloudWatch
- Experience developing and supporting event-driven and serverless architectures
- Experience with AWS Batch and API Gateway
- Strong production support and troubleshooting experience across multiple services and integrations
- Ability to analyse existing code and deliver maintainable, low-risk changes
- Experience creating automated tests using pytest, moto or similar tools
- Ability to produce clear technical documentation and operational support procedures
- Experience with large-scale ETL pipeline platforms
- Understanding of the application, infrastructure and operational aspects of live services
- Experience contributing to technical designs and agreeing pragmatic implementation approaches
- Experience improving platform performance, maintainability and operational stability
- Experience with GitHub Copilot and agentic workflows
Responsibilities
- Support and enhance a live, business-critical platform
- Deliver new features
- Resolve complex issues
- Improve platform stability
Technologies
- API
- AWS
- Lambda
- CloudWatch
- Copilot
- EC2
- ETL
- GitHub
- Support
- Python
- Security
- Serverless
- pytest
- Cloud
More
We are recruiting an experienced AWS Python Developer for a hands-on development and production support role. The contract is remote for six months, paying up to £420 per day inside IR35. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited is acting as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers.
last updated 44 week of 2026