Platform Automation Software Engineer

Salary: £80,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements

• 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

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

Technologies

• AWS
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• PowerShell
• Puppet
• Python
• Terraform
• Windows

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We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer for a major long-term government technology programme, helping build secure customer contact and communications platforms used by critical organisations. This is a software engineering-focused role where we build automation frameworks, internal tooling, Infrastructure as Code solutions, and production-quality code to remove manual processes. The role is based in London near Liverpool Street with a hybrid working pattern of 2 days onsite and 3 days remote. We offer the opportunity to work on highly secure, large-scale cloud infrastructure projects, with significant engineering ownership, modern automation and DevOps tooling, and strong career growth within a global technology organisation.

last updated 28 week of 2026