Senior Systems Engineer

Job overview

Within NHS England, system engineering is about building in the whole-system space rather than specialising solely in applications, infrastructure, networks, or platforms.

We are seeking experienced Senior Systems Engineers to join multidisciplinary product teams across a range of national services. You will play a key role in designing, building, operating, and continually improving systems that support citizens, patients, and healthcare professionals across England.

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will work on services used by millions of people. These range from citizen-facing digital products to critical back-end platforms and APIs. The role involves solving complex technical challenges and applying modern engineering practices to ensure systems are secure, reliable, resilient, and maintainable.

We currently have opportunities across multiple teams, using a diverse range of technologies including Python, TypeScript, .NET, Terraform, AWS, and Azure.

Alongside technical delivery, you will contribute to engineering best practices, support colleagues through mentoring and knowledge sharing, and help shape the direction of the services and platforms you work on.

On-call

Participation in a shared on-call rota may be required to support a 24/7/365 service, this rota covers evenings, weekends, and public holidays.

Main duties of the job

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will:

• Develop, build, and operate highly available, distributed systems that deliver critical national services within NHS England.
• Work within and contribute to NHS England's engineering principles and standards.
• Take technical ownership across the system landscape, including applications, infrastructure, networking, environments, CI/CD pipelines, and operational tooling.
• Collaborate with peers to solve complex technical challenges and drive continual improvement in engineering standards across the organisation.
• Contribute to the ongoing improvement of engineering maturity within the team.
• Coach, mentor, and support colleagues in their professional and technical development.

Candidates must demonstrate experience of the following in their application:

• Application development
• Test engineering and automation
• Infrastructure engineering, e.g. infrastructure as code
• CI/CD including design, development and maintenance of pipelines
• Operating services in production

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.

If you like what you have read and think you have the skills and experience, we need then don't delay, apply today! We get lots of applications for our roles and so we sometimes have to close our posts early. Don't miss out!

The post of Senior Systems Engineer has been awarded a Recruitment and Retention Premia (RRP) in response to current labour market conditions. In recognition of this, the role attracts an additional monthly RRP payment equal to 13% per annum.

Please be aware that RRP is none contractual and subject to review.

Applicant requirements

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.