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Software engineering specialist

Randstad DigitalSouth East London, London🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 11 Sept 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid role offers a fantastic opportunity to significantly impact a company's core infrastructure by driving automation and applying modern software engineering principles. You'll thrive here if you possess a strong Python background and expertise in tools like Terraform and Ansible, eager to develop your skills in a collaborative environment. Apply now to leverage your developer mindset to shape scalable and efficient technology solutions.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Temporary/Casual
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
South East London, London, United Kingdom
Posted
17 hours ago
AnsibleArgoCDGitLab CIJenkinsPrometheusPythonTerraform

Job Description

Senior Platform / Automation Engineer (Developer Background) (DV CLEARANCE)

Location: London, Manchester, Ipswich, and Cheltenham.

Role Type: 6 Months Contract and Hybrid role.

About the Role We are seeking a Senior Platform & Automation Engineer who combines strong software engineering fundamentals with deep infrastructure-as-code (IaC) expertise. You will own and evolve our core infrastructure, driving automation across our entire technical stack-all delivered seamlessly through unified CI/CD pipelines.

This role requires a developer background (strong Python) to ensure our infrastructure code and automation workflows adhere to modern software design standards.

Key Responsibilities

  • Infrastructure as Code: Design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible.

  • Automation & Scripting: Develop custom automation tools, internal CLI systems, and integration scripts primarily in Python.

  • CI/CD Orchestration: Manage standard continuous delivery pipelines, integrating infrastructure updates, container deployments, and tool setups directly into developer workflows.

  • Tech Stack Delivery: Automate the provisioning and configuration of our operational ecosystem, including tools across observability (Prometheus, Elastic, Checkmk), security/compliance (Tenable, Red Hat Satellite), service registry/IPAM (NetBox), container orchestration (ArgoCD), and artifact management (Artifactory, GitLab).

  • Engineering Standards: Apply developer methodologies-such as version control, code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD-to all infrastructure configurations.

Required Skills & Experience

  • Software Development Foundation: Strong background in software engineering or development, with hands-on coding experience in Python.

  • Core IaC Expertise: Proven experience with Terraform (provisioning) and Ansible (configuration management).

  • Pipeline Delivery: Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar) to ship both software and infrastructure changes.

  • Linux Environment: Solid understanding of Enterprise Linux environments (e.g., RHEL).

If you are interest in the role, please apply ASAP or share your updated CV to

Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.


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