We’re looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to lead the design and evolution of secure, resilient IT infrastructure across on-premise and cloud environments. This is a hands-on role for a technical leader who enjoys solving complex problems, driving improvement, and supporting others to do their best work.
Job Title: Senior Systems Engineer
Job Type: Full-time
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Salary: 47,810 – 54,710 £ / Year
Location: Berkshire, Reading, United Kingdom
Deadline: 20th February, 2026
Main duties of the job
- Proactively maintain, support, and improve IT infrastructure to ensure resilience, security, and reliability
- Act as a senior escalation point for infrastructure incidents and manage complex technical issues to resolution
- Ensure incidents, problems, and changes are handled in line with ITIL processes, SLAs, and NHS policies, including root cause analysis
- Design, implement, and document infrastructure solutions, producing high- and low-level designs and technical documentation
- Drive disaster recovery and business continuity planning, testing, and continuous improvement
- Research, test, and introduce new infrastructure technologies,maintaining test environments where required
- Collaborate with internal teams and third-party suppliers to deliver secure, integrated infrastructure services
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to junior members of the team and foster a culture of continual improvement
- Support and contribute to projects, upgrades, and service transformations with minimal disruption to clinical services
- Ensure compliance with NHS, information governance, and security standards (including ISO27001)
- Provide out-of-hours support on a rota basis to maintain availability of core systems for frontline clinical services
- Deputise for the IT Infrastructure Manager when required
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