Full Description

Luxoft is recruiting an experienced Python AWS Automation Engineer to support a major strategic programme with a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data organisation. This initiative is focused on improving operational resilience by automating more than 350 manual processes currently performed by operational teams. From spreadsheet-driven activities to complex operational workflows, you will take ownership of identifying opportunities, engaging stakeholders, and delivering production-grade automation solutions that reduce risk, effort, and human error. If you're someone who enjoys solving operational problems, building robust automation, and working directly with business users to transform the way work gets done, we'd love to hear from you.

What You'll Be Doing

Take ownership of manual operational processes from discovery through to delivery Engage directly with Operations and Business teams to understand existing workflows Gather requirements, document process steps, dependencies and checkpoints Design and build automation solutions using Python and AWS services Develop production-grade workflows using AWS Lambda, Step Functions and related services Integrate with scheduling, orchestration and monitoring platforms Identify opportunities to reduce operational risk and manual effort Deliver maintainable, resilient and observable automation solutions

What We're Looking For

✅ Proven ownership of automation initiatives from concept to production ✅ Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to work directly with operational and business teams ✅ Demonstrable experience automating manual operational processes rather than test automation ✅ Ability to analyse, optimise and redesign operational workflows ✅ Experience delivering solutions independently with minimal supervision

Technical Skills

Strong Python development experience in production environments

Hands-on AWS experience, including

• AWS Lambda
• Step Functions
• S3
• EventBridge
• API integrations
• Experience building data pipelines and automation scripts
• Understanding of operational workflow orchestration
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code principles (Terraform, CloudFormation or similar)

Nice to Have

Control-M Airflow Kubernetes or container orchestration platforms Financial Services experience Experience working in regulated environments Operational resilience, SRE, monitoring and alerting concepts AWS services including SNS, SQS, Secrets Manager and CloudWatch Experience modernising spreadsheet-based or highly manual business processes

Ideal Candidate We're looking for someone who doesn't wait for requirements to arrive in a Jira ticket. You'll be naturally curious, proactive and comfortable speaking directly with the people performing operational tasks to understand how things work today and how they can work better tomorrow. You'll combine strong engineering capability with a practical operational mindset and a genuine desire to automate repetitive processes at scale.

Why Join Luxoft? At Luxoft, you'll work alongside experienced engineers, architects and domain specialists on some of the most complex transformation programmes in Financial Services. This role offers the opportunity to make a measurable impact by helping modernise critical operational processes within a globally important financial institution.