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 & 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 (url removed) Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy