Senior Systems Engineer – Critical National Health Services

NHS England; Leeds, Exeter; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS England is seeking experienced Senior Systems Engineers to join multidisciplinary product teams. You will design, build, operate, and continually improve systems that support citizens, patients, and healthcare professionals across England.

The role covers services from citizen-facing digital products to back-end platforms and APIs, with technologies including Python, TypeScript, .NET, Terraform, AWS, and Azure.

Qualifications

• Test engineering and automation experience.
• Infrastructure engineering with infrastructure as code.
• CI/CD design, development and maintenance.
• Experience operating services in production.

Responsibilities

• Develop, build, and operate highly available, distributed systems that deliver critical national services.
• Work within 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.
• Coach, mentor, and support colleagues in their development.
• Contribute to shaping the direction of the services and platforms.

Skills

Test automation

Infrastructure engineering

CI/CD pipelines

Operating services in production

Tools

Python

TypeScript

.NET

Terraform

AWS

Azure

Job description

NHS England is seeking experienced Senior Systems Engineers to join multidisciplinary product teams. You will design, build, operate, and continually improve systems that support citizens, patients, and healthcare professionals across England.

The role covers services from citizen-facing digital products to back-end platforms and APIs, with technologies including Python, TypeScript, .NET, Terraform, AWS, and Azure.