Senior Systems Engineer

In this role you will shape and run highly available, distributed systems that underpin national NHS services. You work across cross-functional teams to apply modern engineering practices, ensuring security, reliability and maintainability while mentoring colleagues and driving engineering maturity. You will own technical aspects across applications, infrastructure, networks and tooling, contributing to scalable digital services used by millions. This position offers exposure to a range of technologies and a chance to influence long-term platform direction within the NHS England ecosystem.

• Permanent contract
• Salary band 65,006.64 to 73,167.50 per year (incl. 13% RRP)
• Recruitment and Retention Premia (RRP) of 13% per annum
• Flexible working
• Office-based time requirement of 40%
• Opportunities across multiple teams

• Develop, build and operate highly available, distributed systems delivering critical national services
• Adhere to NHS England's engineering principles and standards
• Own technical aspects across the system landscape (applications, infrastructure, networking, environments, CI/CD pipelines, operational tooling)
• Collaborate with peers to solve complex technical challenges and drive engineering standards
• Contribute to ongoing engineering maturity and process improvements
• Coach, mentor and support colleagues in their professional and technical development
• Participate in a shared on-call rota to support 24/7/365 services

• Master's level education or equivalent experience in a relevant subject
• Application Development
• Test Engineering and Automation
• Infrastructure Engineering (Infrastructure as Code)
• CI/CD design, development and maintenance of pipelines
• Operating services in production

• collaboration
• mentoring and coaching
• problem solving
• Python
• TypeScript
• .NET