Principal Cloud Engineer

NHS National Services Scotland; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Flexible working

Learning & development opportunities

Job summary

Public Services Delivery Scotland (PSD Scotland) is recruiting for an IT Principal Engineer within the NSS Cloud Team. The role focuses on supporting, maintaining and securing over 100 production subscriptions and 200 test/development subscriptions hosted in the NSS enterprise tenancy, across Azure and AWS.

You will engage with IaC, IaaS and PaaS deployments, gain cloud skills through team training and external courses, and develop scripting and automation capabilities with Ansible and

Qualifications

• Experience in infrastructure support, with exposure to cloud technologies.
• Willingness to learn and develop cloud skills through training.
• Ability to work with automation tools and scripting languages.

Responsibilities

• Support, maintain and secure 100+ production subscriptions and 200+ test/dev subscriptions in NSS Cloud environment.
• Work with IaC, IaaS and PaaS in Azure and AWS.
• Develop skills in scripting and automation tools such as Ansible and Terraform; aid in application management in Azure.

Skills

Infrastructure support

Cloud technologies

Scripting languages

Ansible

Terraform

Customer relations

Tools

Azure

AWS

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

On 1 April 2026, NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) and NHS Education for Scotland (NES) became one national organisation, focused on continuity today and a stronger, more connected service for tomorrow.

As part of this transformation, NSS and NES have joined to form a new organisation: Public Services Delivery Scotland (PSD Scotland). This new organisation will play a pivotal role in supporting the renewal and ensuring the long-term sustainability of health and care services across Scotland.

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.

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

Closing date

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