Job vacancy: Lead Cloud Engineer, Barts Health NHS Trust, London

Job summary

Main area

259 Data Core Programme

Grade

Band 8b

Contract

Fixed term: 24 months

Hours

Full time
Flexible working

37.5 hours per week

Job ref

259-6253086GSS

Employer: Barts Health NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: The Royal London Hospital
Town: London
Salary: £66,718 - £76,271 per annum inc
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 14/05/2024 23:59

Lead Cloud Engineer

Band 8b

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

Barts Health supports the Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

Substantial experience in leading the analysis of different complex technical/architectural solutions (e.g., cost, time, complexity, suitability, usability, etc.), around unique cloud deployments and selecting an option that is aligned with the agreed policy and strategy.
Experience in communicating complex technical solutions relating to securing sensitive patient data to users undertaking difficult data analysis tasks.
Experience in adapting or formulating new technical strategies and policies for a service and using their persuasion/negotiation skills to change these through the relevant governance structures and communicating these changes to users.
Experience in taking technical leadership around delivering a data and compute infrastructure on a public cloud provider using their cloud and software engineering knowledge that meets agreed requirements.
Experience in managing development projects of new custom services of at least £1M through internal staff or external contractors and approving related payments for work delivered as a responsible budget holder.
Experience of monitoring, managing and optimising the costs incurred by different workloads in public clouds within a defined budget of at least £150K/year.
Experience in leading discussions with end-users to understand and to deliver on their requirements even when the proposed solution may require negotiation and persuasion for the user to accept the outcome.
Experience in establishing networking environments and monitoring cloud security in networks which contain sensitive patient data that must remain secured.
Experience of managing direct reports, staff working under contract, and working collaboratively with distributed technical teams in a matrix management model.
Experience of leading technical work within a team by breaking down a larger technical problem into smaller tasks and managing the delivery of these individual tasks from the team.
Experience in developing and delivering technical training around the use of a data analysis environment to researchers and clinicians.
Experience in leading architectural cloud design processes leading to the operation and delivery of large-scale complex cloud solutions (including public, private and hybrid platforms) through a team.
Experience in interpreting complex policies, potentially from multiple sources, into clear operational processes for IT services, with a demonstratable record of communicating these within a team.
Experience in using an agile methodology to deliver projects within an organization that uses a structured design methodology.
Demonstrable scripting or programming skills (e.g., Python, BASH, Terraform, GitHub, etc.)
Ability to use continuous integration and distribution pipelines (DevOps) to deploy applications using Infrastructure as Code model and the use of containers in support such a process.
Ability to code, deploy and debug complex software and infrastructure environments and to upgrade systems rapidly to implement essential security measures.
Demonstrated ability to assimilate new ideas and work with problem owners to turn ideas into practical, applied techniques, and willingness to continue to learn new techniques.
Experience in assembling long-term strategic technology plans for an IT service to meet the complex user requirements coming from multiple stakeholders in the organisation.
Demonstrable experience of leading one’s own work, including planning and execution.

Desirable criteria

Translating the requirements of NHS and ISO security practices into IT practices.
Experience of working within a research organisation.
Experience with utilizing high performance computing or other specialized compute resources for analysis.
Experience with cloud-based analysis environments for research or data analysis workloads.
Experience in handling healthcare datasets, (e.g., electronic patient records, Genomics, PACS images, etc.)
Experience of working in technology-reliant organization through the process of change, maturity and innovation uplift.
Experience in API design and usage, command line interface and SDKs for writing applications.
Experience in open-source projects and development models.
Experience with the Azure TRE or equivalent systems (i.e., TREs or SDEs).
Experience of working with external contractors, service providers or consultants.

Skills

Essential criteria

High level interpersonal and organization skills – a self-starter.
Ability to analyze and interpret complex information and produce regular reports on the current status, trend analysis and service improvement of an IT Service.
Ability to lead in the development of technical design proposals.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including preparing/reviewing technical documentation, report writing and presentations.
Able to present complex or technical information clearly to technical peers at large workshops, to communicate technical issues to the public, and to lead interactive training sessions in person or remotely for non-experts.
Be an effective team player while being able to engage and lead technical teams.
Able to support the researchers and clinicians making use of the SDE service by finding and introducing new capability that helps them undertake their research activities.
Ability to work with users to understand their complex IT needs in order to resolve their analysis challenges and balance these needs with others to deliver a service for all.
Ability to rapidly develop strong working relationships and gain the confidence of others.
Self-motivated, hardworking and able to organise tasks within a team.
Willingness to work flexibly in order to achieve project demands.
Able to use the tools and applications that reside in Windows and UNIX/Linux computing environments through the use of desktop/laptop devices for most of the working day.

Desirable criteria

Official certification (or at least thorough knowledge) of Cyber Essentials, Cyber Essential+, Data Security and Protection Toolkit, ISO/IEC17799:2005 and ISO/IEC 27001:2005

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Highly developed and demonstrable enterprise architecture and cloud architecture framework knowledge across multiple deployments.
Technical understanding of key scripting languages (Python, BASH, etc.), cloud networking, data storage, security.
Aptitude to design technical/security solutions that will fit into long-term business objectives and strategy.

Desirable criteria

Understanding of digital health innovations.
Awareness of emerging technologies and potential implications on business objectives.

Qualifications

Essential criteria

A university Masters qualification in Computer Science or a related subject or equivalent experience.
Professional cloud and training certifications in Azure, or equivalent public cloud provider that provides the architectural and engineering skills needed for the role.

Desirable criteria

A postgraduate qualification in Computer Science or equivalent experience, ideally involving cloud computing

Other

Essential criteria

Willingness to work occasionally outside normal hours (but within conditioned hours) to meet deadlines.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect. We aim to create an equitable working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential.

Our people strategy for 2019-2022 sets out our priorities and an action plan to meet our ambition. In this strategy, we set out the deal we are offering to you in return for living and breathing our values so that they shape everything that you do every single day.

As an Equal Opportunities Employer we actively support applications from individuals’ who apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme and will process your application as appropriate.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications has been received and we regret that we are unable to provide notification if your application is unsuccessful.

After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs.

By applying for this post you are agreeing to Barts Heath NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Barts Health is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and to child protection. The Trust aims to ensure as far as is possible that anyone, paid or unpaid, who seeks to work in our organisation and who gains access to children, is safe to do so. As such, you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Check as part of the recruitment process if appointed to a post with direct access to children or vulnerable adults.