At a Glance
- Tasks: Develop secure Python applications and support a cloud-native healthcare platform.
- Company: Join a nationally critical programme enhancing the UK's healthcare infrastructure.
- Benefits: Competitive daily rate, remote work with occasional site visits, and impactful projects.
- Other info: Dynamic role with opportunities for professional growth and collaboration.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in healthcare while shaping engineering standards.
- Qualifications: Senior-level Python experience and familiarity with AWS and CI/CD tools.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
We're looking for an experienced Senior Python Software Engineer with a strong background in cloud platforms and platform engineering to join a nationally critical programme supporting the UK's healthcare infrastructure. You’ll be working on a highly available, secure healthcare integration and messaging platform that forms part of the UK's Critical National Infrastructure (CNI). The platform enables the secure exchange of patient and workforce data between healthcare organisations and digital services, helping ensure vital healthcare systems remain resilient, secure and available. This is an opportunity to work on software that has a genuine impact on millions of people while helping shape engineering standards across a modern cloud‑native platform.
What You’ll Be Doing
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll combine application development with platform engineering practices to build, improve and support a secure, cloud‑native environment.
Key responsibilities include:
- Developing high-quality, secure Python applications for complex distributed systems
- Maintaining and improving code quality across the platform
- Building, managing and monitoring CI/CD pipelines and code quality gates
- Ensuring deployments meet technical, security and governance standards
- Provisioning and supporting cloud‑native infrastructure, primarily within AWS
- Collaborating with product teams to help build observable, reliable cloud‑native services
- Supporting incident investigation and driving continuous platform improvements
- Embedding Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) principles throughout the development process
- Championing a 'shift‑left' approach to security through static and dynamic analysis, automation and best practice
Essential Skills & Experience
We’re looking for engineers with experience in:
- Senior‑level Python software development
- Developing secure software for complex systems
- AWS or other public cloud platforms
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
- CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions (or similar)
- Observability and monitoring tools
Desirable Experience
- Promoting engineering and platform best practices across teams
- Building reusable Infrastructure as Code modules and CI/CD pipelines
- Enabling developer productivity through platform engineering
- Driving DevOps culture and automation
- Creating shared tooling and self‑service capabilities for engineering teams
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