AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Change Grow Live is a health and social care charity supporting people through some of the most difficult situations in life, including drug and alcohol use, mental health challenges, domestic violence, homelessness, and social exclusion.

We support tens of thousands of people every year through services including:

• Needle exchanges, both in-person and anonymous
• Screening for blood-borne viruses
• Drug testing for fentanyl, nitazenes and other harmful substances
• Prescribing safer alternatives to opioids
• Supporting medication adherence through pharmacy partnerships
• Specialist support for children and young people

Technology is central to how we support our services safely, securely, and effectively.

• →Building, managing, and optimising AWS infrastructure
• →Supporting cloud reliability, scalability, security, and performance
• →Automating infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code and helping drive our transition towards a fully IaC-managed environment
• →Supporting DevOps workflows across development and production environments
• →Monitoring systems, troubleshooting issues, and supporting incident resolution
• →Improving backup, recovery, resilience, and high-availability approaches
• →Supporting infrastructure security and data protection requirements
• →Working with development teams to improve deployment and operational processes
• →Contributing to technical planning and continuous improvement initiatives
• →Helping improve observability, automation, and operational maturity across the platform

Our in-house systems support a huge range of operational, clinical, and reporting needs across the organisation. Our primary platform, has evolved over more than 15 years and acts as an electronic patient record, case management system, quality management platform, and NHS integration platform.

Our in-house systems support a wide range of operational, clinical, and reporting needs across the organisation. Our primary platform is a mature EPR and case management system that has evolved over more than 15 years, serving as an electronic patient record, case management, quality management, and NHS integration platform.

Our infrastructure is cloud-first and heavily based around AWS. We use a mixture of modern and legacy technologies, with a focus on resilience. Over the next year, we plan to improve our observability, automation and security.

 

Our environment includes technologies such as:

• AWS services (ECS, EC2, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, etc)
• Docker and container platforms
• Terraform / Pulumi / Infrastructure as Code
• Linux operational environments
• MySQL/Aurora
• Modern application stacks, including TypeScript/SvelteKit
• legacy Perl-based systems

We’re actively working towards a fully Infrastructure as Code (IaC) managed environment, continuing to reduce manual configuration and improve consistency, repeatability, resilience, and scalability across our platforms.

We’re continuously improving our infrastructure, deployment practices, monitoring, and security posture while supporting systems that are relied upon every day by frontline services.

We practice a genuinely collaborative and blame-free culture. When incidents happen, we focus on improving systems and processes together rather than assigning blame.

We’re looking for an AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to help support, improve, and evolve our cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices.

You’ll work closely with developers, digital teams, and IT colleagues to ensure our systems are secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective. The role covers a broad mix of infrastructure engineering, automation, monitoring, troubleshooting, and platform improvement work.

Some days may involve improving deployment pipelines or Infrastructure as Code. Other days may focus on performance tuning, incident response, cost optimisation, security improvements, or helping development teams deliver services more effectively.

This is a great role for someone who enjoys solving problems, improving systems over time, and working across a varied technical landscape.

We don’t expect candidates to know every AWS service or tool we use. Strong fundamentals, curiosity, and a willingness to learn are more important than matching every bullet point.

You’ll probably have experience in several of these areas:

• Managing AWS environments and core services such as EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, and CloudWatch
• Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• Cloud networking, monitoring, and security practices
• Linux administration and scripting
• Containers and container platforms such as Docker or ECS
• CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Troubleshooting production infrastructure and supporting operational environments
• Working within DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering environments

Experience with healthcare systems, sensitive/confidential data, or compliance-focused environments would be useful, but isn’t essential.

AWS certifications are welcome, but we value practical experience and learning just as highly.

You’ll likely enjoy this role if you:

• Are collaborative and enjoy supporting others
• Care about building secure and reliable systems
• Like understanding how systems fit together end-to-end
• Enjoy improving and automating processes
• Are calm and methodical when solving problems
• Can balance pragmatism with long-term improvement
• Are comfortable saying “I don’t know, let me check”
• Enjoy learning and working across a broad technical landscape

In carrying out the role, the successful candidate will work flexibly across operational sites as required and contribute to maintaining safe systems of work and environments. The role holder will participate in training, appraisals, and continuous professional development, while keeping up to date with developments in cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, and cybersecurity.

 

Please note: This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK at the time of application. For applicants with time-limited visas, unfortunately, we are unable to support new visa applications or extensions. More information about eligible roles and occupations can be found here: Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK

 

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

 

 

CGL points 42 to 46 (£46,683.60 - £51,101.95)

N/A - Outside London Weighting Area

7/6/2026

Stephen Steele | stephen.steele@cgl.org.uk | 01273 113239

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