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Senior Python Developer - Cloud Automation

Salary

£100K+

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Pays more than 64% of 18 senior software engineer listings in GBP.

This job
£100k
Typical
£94k
Most pay
£81k–£104k
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Benefits

  • Bonus

Skills

Automation
AWS
CI/CD
Cloud
DevOps
Infrastructure as Code
Powershell
Puppet
Python
Terraform

Full job description

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)
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 boost 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
  • team collaboration
  • quality-focused mindset
  • problem-solving
  • Python
  • Terraform
  • Infrastructure as Code
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