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Lead Cloud Platform Engineer

Cloud EngineerCloud EngineerFull TimeRemoteSeniorTeam 1,001-5,000H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United Kingdom

Posted

2 days ago

Salary

£90K / year

Seniority

Senior

Job Description

Lead Cloud Platform Engineer

Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience

• 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.

Job Requirements

  • 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.

Benefits

  • 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
  • Pension options

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