Senior Full Stack and DevOps Engineer- London

Our client is seeking an experienced engineer to join a team delivering a referral capability discovery and technical proof of concept. The project will test how staff and authorised systems can create referrals, keep the relevant business context, notify recipients and track responses across a business support ecosystem. You will build the staff facing referral journey and own application delivery automation, working across a Python/Django application, an accessible interface, GitHub Actions pipelines and operational tooling. You will also work closely with platform specialists on deployment. The outcome will be a working demonstrator and supporting evidence to inform a decision on moving to alpha.

Responsibilities

•  Build a simple staff facing journey covering company lookup, recipient selection, referral creation, and clear status and validation feedback, aligned to research findings.
• Implement accessible interfaces using the agreed Django approach and existing CRM components where appropriate, using React only where the application context calls for it.
• Integrate staff SSO and application level authorisation, limiting access to authorised test users and applying approved platform access controls.
• Contribute Python/Django application code and connect interface journeys to backend APIs and referral lifecycle logic.
• Build and maintain GitHub Actions workflows for automated checks, tests and repeatable deployments to a non production environment.
• Use supported platform abstractions for AWS deployment, manage configuration and secrets through approved mechanisms, and coordinate infrastructure needs with platform owners.
• Implement health and readiness checks, structured logging and operational visibility, and document deployment, recovery and troubleshooting procedures.
• Test end to end journeys and failure states, carry out keyboard, screen reader and automated accessibility checks, and hand over reusable code, pipelines and runbooks.

• Active SC
• Strong full stack delivery experience with Python/Django, plus practical HTML, CSS and JavaScript skills.
• Experience building usable, accessible forms and integrating frontend journeys with backend services.
• Hands on GitHub Actions experience covering CI/CD workflows, automated tests, configuration and deployment troubleshooting.
• Experience deploying applications using a managed platform and working effectively with platform engineers.
• Practical knowledge of SSO integration, application authorisation, secure secrets handling and dependency scanning.
• Experience with end to end testing, application monitoring, health checks and clear operational documentation.
• Desirable: React or Node.js experience, familiarity with AWS hosted applications or Terraform, and experience applying WCAG 2.2 AA principles, GOV.UK patterns or government accessibility testing.
• Minimum of 5-10 years' experience in full stack development and DevOps.