Hybrid Cloud Platform Engineer & Security Lead

Great Ormond Street Hospital; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 61,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days annual leave

Flexible working arrangements

Enhanced pension scheme

Life assurance

Health & wellbeing schemes

Job summary

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity is seeking a Senior Cloud & Security Engineer to own platform engineering, shaping a cloud-first strategy and a cyber security programme. You will design secure, cost-efficient cloud infrastructure and establish reusable components, while guiding teams through DevSecOps practices.

You will work with AWS (and Azure), implement IaC, and lead security controls, risk assessments and automation.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on AWS cloud experience with secure infrastructure design and operations.
• Experience designing cloud-native architectures emphasizing scalability, resilience, and cost optimisation.
• Extensive IaC work (Terraform, CloudFormation) and reusable modules.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of secure, scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules and standard deployment patterns.
• Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines with integrated security controls.

Skills

AWS

DevSecOps

Terraform

CI/CD

Docker

Linux/Windows

Security

Networking

Automation

Tools

GitLab

GitHub

CloudFormation

Job description

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity is seeking a Senior Cloud & Security Engineer to own platform engineering, shaping a cloud-first strategy and a cyber security programme. You will design secure, cost-efficient cloud infrastructure and establish reusable components, while guiding teams through DevSecOps practices.

You will work with AWS (and Azure), implement IaC, and lead security controls, risk assessments and automation.