Software engineering specialist in East Kilbride

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.