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 Street
Working Pattern: Hybrid - 2 days onsite, 3 days remote
Hit apply to upload your CV or contact SteveWright @ spectrumit .co .uk for more info.
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.