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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience

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1001 - 5000 employees

📡 Telecommunications

Healthcare • Mental Health • Telecommunications

Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience is the UK's leading provider of digital psychiatry services, focused on improving access to mental healthcare. It connects patients to highly qualified doctors online through secure video links, offering specialist medical consultations, assessments, and ongoing psychological support across a wide range of mental disorders. The organization emphasizes convenience and accessibility, aiming to provide timely support to those in need of care for their mental health.

📋 Description

• Ensure the day-to-day health, availability, performance, and security of our AWS cloud platform. • Operate and support containerised workloads on AWS ECS/Fargate, managing deployments, scaling, health checks, secrets, and rollbacks. • Maintain and improve cloud networking, including VPCs, Route 53, load balancing, TLS, and certificate management. • Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) to ensure consistent, version-controlled environments. • Manage our multi-account AWS landing zone, including environment separation, centralised logging, and shared platform standards. • Improve platform resilience through incident response, disaster recovery, backup testing, business continuity, and high-availability planning. • Enhance CI/CD pipelines, observability (Datadog), and operational monitoring to enable reliable, low-risk deployments. • Maintain a secure, compliant platform through IAM, network security, Secure SDLC practices, and support for DSPT and Cyber Essentials requirements. • Optimise cloud costs, document platform processes, and share technical knowledge across engineering teams. • Lead and coordinate platform delivery by managing priorities, maintaining the team backlog, supporting on-call activities, and guiding engineers and technical partners.

🎯 Requirements

• Significant senior-level experience (5+ years) in cloud/platform engineering, designing, building, and operating production AWS environments. • Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and managing AWS multi-account environments. • Hands-on experience with Docker, ECS/Fargate, ALB/CloudFront, including deployments, scaling, monitoring, troubleshooting, and rollback. • Proven experience migrating applications to AWS with minimal disruption, ideally from platforms such as Heroku. • Strong CI/CD knowledge, ideally using GitHub Actions, with scripting and automation skills (Python/Bash). • Solid understanding of cloud networking, IAM, security, vulnerability management, encryption, and secure handling of sensitive data. • Experience implementing backup, disaster recovery, and observability solutions, including tools such as Datadog and AWS RDS (MySQL/PostgreSQL). • Experience leading small technical teams, managing backlogs, Agile delivery, and coordinating priorities across stakeholders. • Collaborative, service-oriented mindset with excellent communication skills and the ability to influence and support cross-functional teams. • Pragmatic problem solver with strong attention to detail, balancing reliability, security, cost, and delivery outcomes.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health Cash Plan • Well Hub Subscription • Access to an Employee Assistance Programme • Annual Volunteering Day • Enhanced Sickness and Family Leave pay • Length of Service Bonus • Work from Home allowance • Pension options