Lead Python Developer - Cloud Automation
Summary
Lead Python developer building cloud automation tools and IaC for a high-profile government programme, using Python, Terraform, and AWS to automate infrastructure and improve operational efficiency.
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 infrastructure challenges through code?
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.
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
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 external 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.