Senior Python Software Engineer (Cloud/Platform) - £400 p/d Inside IR35 - Remote

Location Leeds
Discipline: Software Engineering
Job type: Contract
Salary: Up to £400 per day Inside IR35
Contact name: Jordan

Contact email: jordan@exalto-consulting.com
Job ref: 964504
Published: 18 days ago
Startdate: ASAP
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.