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# Python Developer (DevOps Experience Mandatory)

- **Company:** GCS Ltd
- **Location:** Sheffield, UK
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** £25,000.0 - £50,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Application Release Automation, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Groovy, JSON, Python (Programming Language), Apache Maven, Node.Js, Performance Tuning, Secure Hash Algorithm, SonarQube, YAML, Sonatype, Caching, Npm(Software), Terraform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Devsecops, Jenkins, Static Application Security Testing
- **Published:** September 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5896695126

## About the Role

* 7+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years in a CI/CD platform or DevSecOps role.
 * Strong Jenkins and Groovy shared library expertise.
 * Advanced Python development experience, including best coding practices, APIs, JSON/YAML processing, and tooling scripts; key projects should be demonstrated in the CV.
 * Deep knowledge of Maven, NPM, and Python packaging, with exposure to Helm, Terraform, and container image metadata.
 * Experience with supply-chain security concepts such as SLSA, CycloneDX SBOMs, and digests.
 * Experience with SonarQube, Sonatype IQ, and container and SAST scanning.
 * Proven performance tuning experience, including caching, parallelization, and dependency pruning.
 * Compliance awareness.
 * Nice-to-have: artifact signing and attestations experience, including cosign and OCI.
 * Nice-to-have: Terraform module and Helm chart publishing patterns.
 * Nice-to-have: GitOps or release automation experience.
 * Nice-to-have: GCP or AWS cloud experience.

## Description

* We design and maintain Groovy pipeline steps for build, test, package, scan, and deploy workflows.
 * We extend Python tooling for SLSA provenance, SBOM generation, hash and digest accuracy, and security scan aggregation.
 * We optimize pipeline performance through parallel builds, caching, scope-reduced BOMs, and dependency prefetch.
 * We ensure artifact integrity through correct SHA1 and SHA256 mapping, reproducible inputs, and evidence modeling.
 * We refactor legacy scripts by removing global state, consolidating hashing, and standardizing templates.
 * We document ci-config.yaml standards and usage patterns.
 * We mentor engineers on secure pipeline development and supply-chain practices.
 * We troubleshoot and prevent pipeline incidents.

Technologies:

 * AWS
 * CI/CD
 * Cloud
 * DevSecOps
 * GCP
 * GitOps
 * Groovy
 * Helm
 * JSON
 * Java
 * Jenkins
 * Maven
 * NPM
 * Python
 * Security
 * Terraform
 * NodeJS


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