Senior Software Engineer (Python / Cloud Automation)

Senior Software Engineer (Python Cloud Automation)

London Hybrid (2 days onsite near Liverpool Street)

Are you a software engineer who loves solving infrastructure challenges through code?

We're recruiting for a Senior Software Engineer to join a major long-term government technology programme, helping build secure, large-scale customer contact and communications platforms used by critical organisations. This is an opportunity to work on complex cloud infrastructure, automation, and platform engineering challenges where your work will have a direct impact on the success of a high-profile programme.

Unlike many infrastructure roles, this is a genuinely software engineering-focused position. You'll spend your time building automation frameworks, developing internal tooling, creating Infrastructure as Code solutions, and eliminating manual processes through clean, scalable, production-quality code.

What You'll Be Doing

• Building automation frameworks and tooling using Python
• Developing Infrastructure as Code solutions with Terraform
• Creating reusable templates and code generation platforms using Jinja2
• Automating Windows environments through PowerShell
• Managing and improving configuration management with Puppet
• Building CI/CD integrations for infrastructure delivery
• Working closely with cloud, platform and engineering teams to improve automation and operational efficiency
• Driving infrastructure standardisation, reliability and scalability across complex environments

What We're Looking For

• Strong commercial Python development experience
• Experience building automation tools, frameworks or platforms
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code expertise
• Experience with AWS cloud services
• Puppet configuration management experience
• Strong PowerShell scripting skills
• CI/CD and DevOps automation experience
• Passion for engineering best practices, testing and code quality
• Experience working in cloud and hybrid infrastructure environments

Why Apply?

• Join a major government-backed technology programme
• Work on highly secure, large-scale cloud infrastructure projects
• Significant engineering ownership and technical challenge
• Modern automation, cloud and DevOps tooling
• Hybrid working with a collaborative engineering culture
• Excellent opportunities for career growth and progression within a global technology organisation

Location: London (Near Liverpool StreetWorking Pattern: Hybrid - 2 days onsite, 3 days remote

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Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.