AWS Cloud Engineer

AWS Cloud Engineer

Final date to receive applications: 14 December 2025

Department: Data & Technology

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Cheadle

Reporting To: Vivek Tuluva

Compensation: £55,000 - £60,000 / year

At UK Biobank, we’re modernising the systems and cloud platforms that underpin world‑leading research. Our technology teams are driving a large‑scale transformation programme that will shape the future of how researchers across the globe access, analyse, and discover insights from one of the richest biomedical datasets in existence.

This is your opportunity to join a team delivering a cloud transformation project, where automation, innovation, and security are at the heart of everything we build. Working within our Data & Technology function, you’ll help design, develop, and enhance an AWS environment that supports mission‑critical services for an international research community.

Reporting to the Cloud Infrastructure Lead, you’ll play a key role in developing, maintaining, and scaling UK Biobank’s AWS platform. This environment hosts a diverse range of applications and services and sits at the centre of a major organisational transformation.

You’ll work closely with internal stakeholders, cloud specialists, information security professionals, and development teams to support service migrations, deploy new features, and continuously improve performance, automation, and resilience.

This green‑field cloud programme gives you the chance to influence future architecture, embed best‑practice security, and shape the direction of a platform used to support world‑leading research.

You will be responsible for:

• Working with the Cloud Infrastructure Lead to develop and maintain UK Biobank’s AWS environment
• Providing expert advice and assistance with the deployment of AWS technologies
• Working with development teams to build, deploy, and maintain AWS services such as standard compute, serverless compute, storage, databases, containers, and networking
• Working with the Head of Information Security to implement and maintain security measures that safeguard the AWS environment and protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of UK Biobank services and data
• Ensuring systems and services are configured to log event data correctly and securely, and that the data are copied to the organisation’s SIEM solution for analysis

To be successful, you will have:

• Strong knowledge and experience of AWS core services, including but not limited to Control Tower, EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, SES, Lambda, Route 53, Cloud Formation, and Cloud Watch
• Knowledge and experience of Infrastructure as Code tools such as AWS Cloud Formation or Terraform
• Strong knowledge and experience of AWS networking, including VPCs, subnets, security groups, NAT gateways, VPNs, and direct connect
• Knowledge and experience of AWS Security Hub, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Guard Duty, Inspector, Network & Web Application Firewalls, and Shield
• Knowledge and experience of IAM and IAM identity centre, as well as MS Entra  (MS Azure Active Directory) as an IdP for SSO

To find out more about the team please visit:

Working hours are 35‑hours per week, Monday to Friday with some flexibility, 3 days onsite with hybrid working available. Located in Greater Manchester (initially based in Stockport with a move to Manchester Science Park mid to late 2026). Occasional travel will be required to Oxford, London, and Imaging Centres.

Our passion for diversity and equality means creating a work environment for all employees that is welcoming, respectful, engaging, and enriched with opportunities for personal and professional development.

We’re proud to offer a benefits package that supports your health, financial security, and work‑life balance - right from day one. Here’s what you can look forward to as part of our team:

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  26 Days’ Annual Leave - Plus Bank Holidays, increasing with length of service.
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  Holiday Buy Scheme - Purchase up to one additional week of leave per year.
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  Birthday Leave - Enjoy a paid day off to celebrate your birthday.
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  USS Pension Scheme - Hybrid defined benefit/defined contribution pension…