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Within NHS England, system engineering is about building in the whole-system space rather than focusing on a specialism such as application or infrastructure.

As a Senior Systems Engineer you will work on systems that improve healthcare for millions of people across the UK. These systems range from citizen facing web portals to internal back-end services and will typically feature complex application logic that requires robust, secure, quality-focussed development practices.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Central Engineering team in Products and Platforms, which builds and operates a set of products, tools, blueprints, and good practice guides to support Engineers, Developers, and Testers across Products and Platforms. You will have a specific focus on improving resilience and reliability as well as improving developer experience.

The main technologies we use in this team are AWS, Terraform, and Python.

Main Duties

• Developing, building, and operating national, highly available distributed systems being built and run within NHS England.
• Operating within and contributing to the NHS England engineering principles.
• Technical ownership across the system space, including application, environments, infrastructure and networks, pipelines, and operational tools.
• Engage in peer-to-peer collaboration to solve engineering problems and drive-up organisation engineering standards.
• Contributing to Engineering maturity within the team.
• Coaching and mentoring colleagues.

Candidate Requirements

• Infrastructure / application development experience
• Experience working across all layers of the stack including application, infrastructure, CI/CD, testing, monitoring and alerting etc.
• Implementing quality-focussed development practices
• Evidence using appropriate testing techniques
• Working within a team to deliver software in a collaborative way

Our work supports the NHS to deliver high quality services for patients and best value for taxpayers. Our staff bring expertise across hundreds of specialisms — including clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial — enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.

What We Do

• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money

NHS England is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.