Software Engineer - Python/AWS/Terraform (SC or DV Cleared)

Senior Software Engineer - AWS/Python/Terraform Active SC or DV Clearance Required | Government Programme | Contract | Inside IR35

Location: UK - hybrid/remote working, subject to project and security requirements

Security Clearance: Current SC, enhanced SC or DV clearance is mandatory

Engagement: Contract - Inside IR35

Sector: Government/Defence/National Infrastructure

The opportunity We are supporting a major secure government programme building modern cloud-native and AI-enabled digital capability within a highly technical AWS environment.

The team are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with strong AWS, Terraform and CI/CD experience who is also comfortable working with Python.

This is not a purely infrastructure-support or systems-administration position. The role sits across DevOps automation, cloud engineering and software delivery, with engineers contributing to AWS platform capability, automated deployments, Python tooling and cloud-native services.

The role could suit either:

An experienced AWS DevOps or Platform Engineer who regularly uses Python for automation, tooling or cloud services.

A Python Software Engineer with strong hands-on experience across AWS, Terraform, CI/CD and containerised environments.

You do not need to come from a traditional software engineering background, but you must be able to demonstrate meaningful hands-on Python experience beyond very basic Scripting.

What you'll be doing Designing, building and automating secure AWS cloud environments.

Developing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.

Building and improving CI/CD and automated deployment pipelines.

Using Python to develop automation, engineering tooling and cloud-native components.

Supporting the deployment and operation of Python services, APIs and Back End applications.

Working with serverless, microservices and event-driven AWS architectures.

Building and supporting Docker-based and containerised services.

Improving the reliability, scalability and resilience of cloud-hosted systems.

Troubleshooting application, deployment and infrastructure issues.

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