Senior Python Software Engineer (Cloud/Platform) - £400 p/d Inside IR3

Senior Python Software Engineer (Cloud/Platform)
Contract: Inside IR35
Location: Hybrid - Leeds (approximately 1 day per month on-site)
Duration: Until August 2027 (initial contract)
Rate: Up to £400 per day
Security Clearance: Active SC Clearance required (transferable)

you'll be responsible for developing secure, cloud-native Python applications while helping improve platform capabilities, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code and developer experience across a large-scale AWS environment.

Essential Skills

• Strong commercial Python development experience
• AWS cloud development experience
• Terraform (or other Infrastructure as Code tools)
• CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar)
• Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC)
• Observability and monitoring tooling
• Experience supporting production systems and incident investigation

Desirable

• Platform Engineering or DevOps experience
• Shift-left security practices
• Building reusable IaC modules and CI/CD components
• Experience promoting engineering best practices across teams

Requirements

• Active transferable SC Security Clearance
• Willingness to join an on-call rota once fully onboarded

This is an excellent opportunity to work on a highly secure, cloud-native platform supporting critical public services, alongside a collaborative team using modern engineering practices and technologies.