Python Cloud Engineer - Contract UK

Job summary

Build and operate cloud-based web APIs and scalable infrastructure for a product team developing AI solutions, including workloads that scale to client needs. The role involves developing enterprise-grade Python APIs, deploying Docker containers on Kubernetes, managing cloud resources with Terraform, and integrating varied systems across AWS, GCP, or Azure. It also includes end-to-end deployment ownership, observability, security, architecture documentation, and test-first delivery.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Experience building and deploying infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Python and Docker experience for web APIs
• Production Kubernetes experience
• Terraform experience; CloudFormation or similar is a bonus
• Git and DevOps experience, ideally with monorepos
• Experience integrating varied APIs
• Knowledge of OAuth2 and OIDC
• Test-first, quality-driven approach
• Clear written and spoken communication

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain cloud-agnostic Python web APIs
• Provision and manage cloud resources with Terraform
• Design scalable infrastructure using established patterns and reference architectures
• Own deployments end to end and support direct infrastructure management
• Integrate SaaS APIs and traditional FTP systems
• Build observability and security into designs
• Document architecture with diagrams-as-code
• Use test-first practices to build quality into delivery

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