AWS Cloud Engineer

Health Innovation East has an exciting opportunity for an AWS Cloud Engineer to join our rapidly expanding Health Informatics team. Salary: £59,675 – £69,164 Hours of work: 37.5hrs/week (full time) Terms: 12-month fixed term Deadline: 11:59pm Sunday 31 May 2026 Date of interview: two stage process – Tuesday 9 June and Friday 19 June The Health Informatics team has specialist skills in delivering complex, technical programmes of work that include providing secure environments for storing and accessing health and other sensitive data to support health and care delivery, research, and innovation. We are looking for someone who has specialist skills in implementing DevOps throughout the development lifecycle of projects. This will include furthering automation through CI/CD pipelines, serverless functions and IaC tooling, extending user facing functionality, improving operational processes and identifying alternate approaches to data flow within the platform. The post bolder will act as both a subject matter expert and hands-on engineer. A significant portion of this role will be supporting the Eastern England Secure Data Environment (SDE) – part of an interoperable NHS Research Secure Data Environment network, giving approved researchers secure access to de-identified NHS healthcare data, for approved projects. The SDE utilises AWS Research and Engineering Studio as the user facing environment. This is a chance to join a fast growing, dynamic company. We believe that great ideas only make a difference for our health when they are put into practice. Whether we’re working with global companies, pioneering start-ups, universities or health providers we help the best innovations in health and care reach the people, places and problems where they deliver most benefit. As the region’s experts in health innovation implementation our team includes healthcare professionals, specialist technologists and commercial advisors; our collective skill set is at the forefront of the advances being made across health and care. This post is based in our Cambridge office, with opportunities for hybrid working. Flexible working hours compatible with the role can be considered (including the possibility of working part time). There will be a requirement to attend some in-person meetings both within the Eastern region and nationally. How to apply To apply please submit your CV and a covering letter by 23:59 on Sunday 31 May to recruitment@healthinnovationeast.co.uk specifying your motivation for applying and how you meet our person specification. Download the job description and person specification Please ensure that your application contains a positive declaration of your right to work in the UK. If you are shortlisted, you will need to provide the appropriate evidence of your right to work in the UK as we will not be able to progress your application further without this evidence. For an informal discussion about this role, please contact InformaticsOperations@healthinnovationeast.co.uk. Interview Process: The interview will be conducted in two stages. The first stage will be a short screening call via Microsoft Teams with the recruiting manager, scheduled to take place on Tuesday 9 June. Candidates who are successful at this stage will be invited to attend a second-stage, in-person interview at our office in Cambridge on Friday 19 June. We are committed to the employment and career development of people living with a disability. As part of this commitment, we operate a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants living with a disability who in the collective opinion of the selection panel meet the essential criteria for the role for which they have applied. If you wish to be considered for this scheme, please advise recruitment@healthinnovationeast.co.uk by no later than the closing date above. We really encourage applications from suitably qualified candidates, particularly from diverse backgrounds, so that we truly represent the rich diversity of our region. Please consider filling in an equality and diversity monitoring form. The completion of this form is entirely optional and there are no consequences for your application if you choose not to provide such information. It will not be seen by anyone involved in shortlisting applicants for interview, or anyone involved in the interview itself. The information provided will be kept confidential and will be used for monitoring purposes only.