Spectrum IT Recruitment
Lead Python Developer - Cloud Automation
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Lead Python Developer | Tech Lead | Principal Engineer
Python | Terraform | IaC | Cloud Automation
London | Hybrid (2 days onsite, London (city)
£100k + 8% bonus, 10% pension, private medical
Are you a Technical Lead Software Engineer who loves solving complex challenges using Python?
We're recruiting for a Technical Lead Software Engineer to join a significant government technology programme, helping build secure, large-scale customer 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.
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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 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
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The Process:
- The process is lean, friendly, and all hosted via MS Teams.
- There will be 2 interview stages lasting approx 2 hours in total.
- No coding tests. No presentations. No trick questions. Quick turnaround.
- Interviews are happening in July and August.
- Start dates from 0-3 months depending on your availability.
Interested? Hit apply to upload your CV.
Want more info first? Contact Steve at Spectrum IT Recruitment.
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
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