Cloud Platform Engineer

Job summary

Are you a cloud expert ready to make a difference in healthcare?

The NCA is looking for a Cloud Platform Engineer to help us build, manage, and optimise secure cloud solutions that support essential services across the organisation. In this role, you'll take charge of designing and implementing cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure and AWS, ensuring scalability, security, and performance.

You'll work closely with other Digital and clinical teams to automate processes, troubleshoot issues, and ensure high availability across our systems. Your expertise in cloud environments, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and automation will be instrumental in driving innovation, streamlining operations, and enhancing the NCA's digital capabilities.

With a strong focus on security and compliance, you'll help safeguard sensitive patient data while enabling our teams to work efficiently and deliver quality care. Your role will be central in transforming the NHS's technology landscape, from ensuring secure access to developing robust solutions that meet healthcare demands.

If you're driven by meaningful challenges and want to contribute to a healthier future, join the NCA and be part of a forward-thinking team revolutionising healthcare technology.

Main duties of the job

As a Cloud Platform Engineer within the NCA, you will play a fundamental role in supporting the operation and maintenance of cloud-based server and platform infrastructure essential for healthcare operations. Your responsibilities encompass a variety of tasks aimed at ensuring the reliability, security, and efficiency of NCA IT systems hosted in the cloud.

Your primary duty will involve assisting in the setup, configuration, and upkeep of cloud server and platform environments across NCA sites. This includes supporting the deployment of virtual servers, storage systems, databases, middleware components, and other cloud infrastructure components, adhering to NHS standards and industry best practices.

You will be tasked with providing technical assistance to diagnose and resolve cloud server and platform issues and incidents promptly. Utilising your problem-solving skills and familiarity with cloud technologies, you will contribute to identifying root causes and implementing solutions to minimise downtime and disruptions to healthcare services, ensuring optimal system performance.

You will support the implementation of basic security measures to safeguard cloud server and platform environments and sensitive data. This may involve assisting in the enforcement of access controls, monitoring systems, and adherence to security policies to mitigate cybersecurity risks within cloud server and platform systems.

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.