The System Engineer (Cloud Engineer) will be working on national, highly available distributed systems being built and run across NHS England. The systems can differ in size, scale and purpose, but an example system would:
- Have a round-the-clock requirement to be available to a level of 99.9% or higher
- Have a national-scale impact on unavailability, and cope with the load associated with a daily transactional user-base of more than one hundred thousand people
- Adopt modern Cloud best-practices and open standards to support interoperability and reusability with security first principles.
- Achieve high availability through operational simplicity by lowering mean-time-to-repair rather than increasing mean-time-between-failure (not contract management); by focusing on engineering excellence.
- Provide flexible low-cost horizontal scale-out to handle expected and unexpected variations in load
- Handle the architectural trade-offs necessary to avoid logical bottlenecks
- Provide security controls appropriate for the storage of large volumes of sensitive data – hundreds of millions of records and documents
- Have a direct clinical impact on patient care and/or health research
- System Engineers (Cloud Engineers) could be a tech lead for a squad delivering components for national systems, or working with peers on larger scale projects.
Main duties of the job
System Engineers (Cloud Engineers) are responsible for developing in the “system” space, which includes the application but is broader: it means the application, the environments, infrastructure & networks on which it runs, the pipelines that build, deploy and test it, and the tools that allow the team to operate it (e.g. monitoring & alerting tools, code repositories, etc). NHS England utilises Agile, Lean and DevOps delivery practices, with an emphasis on internet‑facing services using Cloud and Open Source technology to create large scale national solutions for the NHS.
Job responsibilities
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Important: Please be aware there are residency requirements you need to meet:
To meet National Security Vetting requirements, SC clearances require 5 years continuous UK residency. In certain cases, this can be reduced to three years continuous UK residency, with additional overseas checks for the previous two years.
Candidates who were posted abroad for service with HM Government, Armed Forces or within a UK government role will still be considered.
Please make sure you meet these requirements before applying for this role.
You don’t need to have SC already, however, failure to achieve the requirements for SC after offer will result in the job offer being withdrawn.
The post of System Engineer (Cloud 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 not contractual and subject to review.
Person Specification
Skills
- Designs, codes, tests, corrects and documents large and/or complex programs and program modifications from supplied specifications using agreed standards and tools, to achieve a well‑engineered result.
- Takes part in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues’ work.
Knowledge
- Shares knowledge with others in team by presenting back to the team on technical investigations, and areas of technical specialism.
Stakeholder Management
- Capable of acting as a single technical point of contact for defined stakeholder groups.
Qualifications
- Qualified to Master’s degree level in a suitable technical, scientific or mathematical subject (or equivalent professional experience)
Experience
- Experience and understanding of operational considerations (PARRISSS) as part of system architecture & design, namely Performance, Availability, Recoverability, Reliability, Integrity, Security, Scalability and Serviceability
- Experienced in identifying and documenting both functional and non‑functional requirements for a large application or suite of applications
Benefits and Salary
- Salary: £65,007 to £73,168 per year (exclusive of London weighting). This includes an RRP payment of 13%.
- Permanent contract.
- Full‑time, Part‑time, Job share, Flexible working.
- Location: Leeds – Wellington Place; London – Wellington House.
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