Job Description

Python Software Engineer

+12 months +

+Remote - 1 day a month on site in Leeds

+SC cleared - current active clearance is essential

+Inside IR35

+£400 a day

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

Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) principles

Supporting production environments and incident investigation

Building secure, reliable and scalable cloud-native applications

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 teamsIf you'd like to discuss this Python Software Engineer role in more detail, please send your updated CV to (url removed) and I will get in touch