Principal Cloud Engineer

NHS Ayrshire & Arran; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Work-life balance policies

Learning resource centres

Job summary

PSD Scotland is seeking an IT professional to strengthen the NSS Cloud Team responsible for 100+ production subscriptions and 200+ test/dev subscriptions. The role focuses on cloud governance, security and automation, with training provided to develop skills in Azure, Ansible and Terraform.

You will join a hybrid team based in Edinburgh or Glasgow, contributing to major IT projects and ongoing platform improvements within a national NHS framework.

Qualifications

• Broad infrastructure support experience with cloud technologies.
• Willingness to learn Azure management and automation.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and support NSS Cloud subscriptions (100+ prod, 200+ test/dev).
• Assist in security, access management and deployment automation (IaC, Ansible, Terraform).
• Collaborate with IT teams to deliver cloud projects and optimise infrastructure.

Job description

About The Organisation

PSD Scotland unites expertise from NES and NSS in a way that will allow us to accelerate national programmes to support the NHS to deliver better care, now and in the future.

We support staff with education and training, provide the tools and data that improve services, and run vital national functions such as procurement, logistics and blood, tissue and cell services.

The Post

As part of the IT Strategic Business Unit, NSS Infrastructure services has direct responsibility for over 250 different applications (deployed both on-premises in one of two data centres, and in the public cloud) and for processing over 100 million records per year. The NSS Infrastructure Server team is responsible for maintaining and supporting existing platforms as well as researching emerging technologies and recommending future direction. They are also involved in a number of major IT projects aimed at optimising the use of IT infrastructure.

The team is split into 4 areas of expertise - Microsoft, Unix, Cloud and Oracle Database Admin.

The Candidate

An opportunity has become available within the NSS Cloud Team for an enthusiastic professional to join the existing team of 5 cloud engineers who are tasked with responsibility for the support, maintenance and security of over 100+ production subscriptions, and around 200+ test and development subscriptions, all hosted with the NSS enterprise tenancy.

The NSS Cloud Team currently utilizes several cloud focused technologies in order to deploy a mix of IaC, IaaS, and PaaS. These are hosted with Azure with a small percentage being hosted in AWS.

Candidates should have wide experience of infrastructure support with some experience in cloud technologies. There will be training provided to develop cloud technical skills, both by working within the team itself and additional technical courses.

For a full breakdown of the tasks included please see the Job Description Pdf which is available at the bottom of this advert page.

Candidates should also show an interest in learning more about the management, access and development of applications in Azure, as well as developing skills in scripting languages and automation products such as Ansible and Terraform.

The IM & T Principal Engineer should have an appreciation of the business requirements of the NSS and combine this knowledge with finely tuned customer relation skills.

Location and Working Pattern:

Gyle Square, Edinburgh or Delta House, Glasgow.

Currently hybrid working.

Monday-Friday 36 Hours per week.

It is a condition of this employment that you must live and remain a resident within the UK and have entitlement to work in the UK for the post in which you will be employed.

Benefits

• Our benefits package includes pension scheme, comprehensive range of work life balance policies, occupational health services, learning resource centres and discounted leisure, financial and shopping benefits. HR Benefits Brochure.

Inclusion

Public Services Delivery Scotland is a national organisation and, as an anchor institution, it is our ambition to be a diverse and inclusive organisation where everyone feels welcome.

We recognise that flexible working creates an inclusive workplace where employees can thrive and feel confident about their ability to balance their personal and professional responsibilities. This is supported through Once for Scotland flexible working policies. PSD Scotland has made a long-term commitment to staff health and well-being and offers many learning and development opportunities to support and improve our approaches to diversity, inclusion and mental health in the workplace. There are a number of equality staff networks in place which all staff are welcome to join. We are also an equal opportunities employer and as such aim to guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As an accredited Disability Confident Leader, it is the aim of PSD Scotland to offer a fully accessible and inclusive recruitment service that supports applicants on their candidate journey. If you are interested in any reasonable adjustments, please contact the Recruitment Team on [e-mail]

Further Information

For an informal discussion on the post, please contact Stephen Grant (Senior Department Manager), at [e-mail]

Closing date for completed applications is Monday the 28th of September 2026 at midnight.

Please note that the majority of correspondence is sent by e-mail only, so please check your e-mail regularly (including junk folders).

We are an equal opportunities employer and as committed participant in the disability confident scheme, guarantees to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies however, where exceptionally high application volumes make this impracticable, a fair and proportionate shortlisting approach will be applied in line with Disability Confident guidance