• Ensure the day-to-day health, availability, performance, and security of our AWS cloud platform.

• Operate and support containerised workloads on AWS ECS/Fargate, managing deployments, scaling, health checks, secrets, and rollbacks.

• Maintain and improve cloud networking, including VPCs, Route 53, load balancing, TLS, and certificate management.

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) to ensure consistent, version-controlled environments.

• Manage our multi-account AWS landing zone, including environment separation, centralised logging, and shared platform standards.

• Improve platform resilience through incident response, disaster recovery, backup testing, business continuity, and high-availability planning.

• Enhance CI/CD pipelines, observability (Datadog), and operational monitoring to enable reliable, low-risk deployments.

• Maintain a secure, compliant platform through IAM, network security, Secure SDLC practices, and support for DSPT and Cyber Essentials requirements.

• Optimise cloud costs, document platform processes, and share technical knowledge across engineering teams.

• Lead and coordinate platform delivery by managing priorities, maintaining the team backlog, supporting on-call activities, and guiding engineers and technical partners.

To succeed as our Lead Cloud Platform Engineer, you will have:

Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Significant senior-level experience (5+ years) in cloud/platform engineering, designing, building, and operating production AWS environments.

• Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and managing AWS multi-account environments.

• Hands-on experience with Docker, ECS/Fargate, ALB/CloudFront, including deployments, scaling, monitoring, troubleshooting, and rollback.

• Proven experience migrating applications to AWS with minimal disruption, ideally from platforms such as Heroku.

• Strong CI/CD knowledge, ideally using GitHub Actions, with scripting and automation skills (Python/Bash).

• Solid understanding of cloud networking, IAM, security, vulnerability management, encryption, and secure handling of sensitive data.

• Experience implementing backup, disaster recovery, and observability solutions, including tools such as Datadog and AWS RDS (MySQL/PostgreSQL).

• Experience leading small technical teams, managing backlogs, Agile delivery, and coordinating priorities across stakeholders.

• Collaborative, service-oriented mindset with excellent communication skills and the ability to influence and support cross-functional teams.

• Pragmatic problem solver with strong attention to detail, balancing reliability, security, cost, and delivery outcomes.

Desirable Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Experience working in regulated environments, ideally within healthcare or NHS digital services.

• Familiarity with DSPT, Cyber Essentials / Cyber Essentials Plus, or similar compliance frameworks.

• Relevant AWS certifications (for example Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer).

• Experience with cloud cost optimisation / FinOps.

• Exposure to secrets management tooling, web application firewalls, and structured incident management practice.

• Experience embedding security scanning into CI/CD pipelines (infrastructure as code, dependency, and container image scanning).

Psychiatry UK: Supporting You

We want you to enjoy your work while feeling healthy, happy, and appreciated. That’s why we’ve created a benefits package designed with you in mind. You’ll have access to a range of wellbeing perks, including a Health Cash Plan, Well Hub Subscription, access to an Employee Assistance Programme, Annual Volunteering Day, Enhanced Sickness and Family Leave pay, Length of Service Bonus, Work from Home allowance and Pension options.

At Psychiatry UK, we care about what matters to you.

Recruitment Process

At Psychiatry UK, we are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. Our process includes:

• Application

• Profile review

• Screening conversation

• Competency based interview(s)

If at any point you require any reasonable adjustments —such as additional time, assistive technology, or an alternative format for materials—please let us know. We are happy to accommodate your needs to ensure you have a fair and comfortable experience. Please feel free to reach out to us to discuss any adjustments that would support you.

If this opportunity excites you, why not apply today? We review applications as they come in and may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of interest. To ensure you don’t miss out, we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.