Senior Python Developer – Cloud Automation

Company: Spectrum IT Recruitment
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

Senior Python-focused software engineer to lead infrastructure automation on a high-profile government platform. You will write scalable code, build automation tools, and implement IaC to standardise and secure cloud environments. You’ll collaborate with cloud, platform, and engineering teams to boost automation and reliability. This is a software-engineering-centric role with real impact on critical enterprise platforms and transformation of infrastructure delivery.

Pay / Benefits

  • bonus
  • private medical

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 with PowerShell
  • Manage and improve configuration management with Puppet
  • Build CI/CD integrations for infrastructure delivery
  • Collaborate with cloud, platform and engineering teams to improve automation and efficiency
  • Drive infrastructure standardisation, reliability and scalability across complex environments

Key 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
  • Python
  • Terraform
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Jinja2
  • PowerShell
  • Puppet

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Posted: October 16th, 2026