Lead Python Developer - Cloud Automation

Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year

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

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
• MS Teams
• PowerShell
• Puppet
• Python
• Terraform
• Windows

More:

We are 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 a hybrid role based in London, with 2 days onsite, and offers £100k, an 8% bonus, a 10% pension, and private medical cover. We offer a lean, friendly interview process hosted via MS Teams, with two stages taking around 2 hours in total, no external coding tests, no presentations, and no trick questions. Interviews are happening in July and August, and start dates are available from 0-3 months depending on availability.

last updated 30 week of 2026