Senior Systems Engineer: Sponsorship Available

Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Job Summary

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.

You’ll bring strong expertise in automation, cloud platforms, and modern DevOps practices, acting as a technical authority across the organisation. You’ll collaborate closely with teams, mentor engineers, and ensure the delivery of reliable, high-quality services that support critical clinical systems.

You’ll also play a key role in innovation, compliance with NHS and national standards, and strengthening disaster recovery and business continuity. The role includes out-of-hours support on a rota basis, ensuring the availability of core systems and infrastructure for frontline clinical services outside normal business hours.

If you’re passionate about modern infrastructure and want to make a real impact in healthcare, we’d love to hear from you.

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

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications/Training

Essential

  • Educated to degree level or significant equivalent experience.
  • Certification in Microsoft Azure, Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate or significant relevant experience

Desirable

  • Foundation Certificate in PRINCE2 project management techniques
  • Foundation Certificate in ITIL Service Management

Continuous Professional Development

Essential

  • Demonstrated commitment to continuous development through participation in training courses and achievement of professional certifications

Previous Experience

Essential

  • Extensive experience as a Senior systems engineer and system administrator.
  • Extensive experience in IT support environment
  • Experience of providing diverse services to multiple customers within a large multi-faced, multi-site organisation

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Essential

  • Advanced knowledge of the following: Windows Server 2016 & above, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, PowerShell and Hyper-V

Additional Requirements

Essential

  • Full driving licence and the use of car on a daily basis
  • Willingness to work outside of normal office hours

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 20 February 2026

To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.