Senior Python Developer - Cloud Automation
Spectrum IT Recruitment
Overview
In this role you will drive software engineering for a government technology project, delivering secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and automation. You will work closely with cloud, platform and engineering teams to improve automation and operational efficiency, building production-ready tooling and IaC solutions. This position blends software engineering with infrastructure automation at scale, offering impact on a high-profile programme. You’ll shape standardisation and reliability across complex environments while maintaining high code quality.
Pay / Benefits- salary 100k+ per annum
- 8-10% bonus
- private medical
- hybrid work (2 days onsite)
- 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 boost automation and efficiency
- Drive infrastructure standardisation, reliability and scalability across complex environments
- 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
- team collaboration
- quality-focused mindset
- problem-solving
- Python
- Terraform
- Infrastructure as Code
Reference: WJ-747_31289701 · Posted 11 Nov 2026, 08:42 PM