Software engineering specialist

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 and 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 ResponsibilitiesInfrastructure as Code: Design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible.Automation and 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, ..... full job details .....