Senior Software Engineer (Python / Cloud Automation)

Salary: £80,000 - 110,000 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 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 a hybrid role based in London near Liverpool Street, with 2 days onsite and 3 days remote. You will join a collaborative engineering culture within a global technology organisation, working on highly secure cloud infrastructure projects with significant ownership, technical challenge, modern automation and DevOps tooling, and excellent opportunities for career growth and progression.

last updated 30 week of 2026