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Job title: System Engineer
Engagement type: Contract, outside IR35 
Location: Cheltenham, 3-4 days a week on site required
Start Date: ASAP
End date: 12 months +
Hours per week: 37.5 

Job Description 
As a System Engineer, you’ll play a key role in delivering complex, high-impact solutions across multidisciplinary teams, supporting projects that matter — from nationally significant programmes to cutting-edge digital and systems-led transformations. You’ll work in a collaborative, inclusive environment where your expertise helps shape resilient, secure and future-ready systems, while being supported to grow your career in a business committed to engineering a better future for our planet and its people.

Key Responsibilities
System Design & Delivery
  • · Design and engineer system solutions that meet functional, non-functional, and operational requirements
  • · Produce and maintain system designs, technical documentation, and interface definitions
  • · Support system build, configuration, integration, testing, and deployment activities
Integration & Assurance
  • · Integrate components across infrastructure, applications, networks, and services
  • · Ensure systems meet security, resilience, and compliance standards
  • · Identify and manage technical risks, issues, and dependencies
Operations & Support
  • · Support systems through transition to service and live operation
  • · Diagnose and resolve system issues and performance problems
  • · Provide technical input to change, incident, and problem management
Stakeholder & Team Working
  • · Translate business needs into clear technical requirements
  • · Work collaboratively with architects, developers, delivery managers, and suppliers
  • · Communicate technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
Essential Skills & Experience
  • · Experience working as a System Engineer or in a similar technical role
  • · Strong understanding of system lifecycle delivery (requirements through to operations)
  • · Experience of system integration in complex or multi-technology environments
  • · Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues
  • · Clear written and verbal communication skills
Desirable Skills & Experience
  • · Experience in cloud, hybrid, or distributed systems
  • · Exposure to secure, regulated, or mission-critical environments
  • · Familiarity with systems engineering, enterprise architecture, or service management frameworks
  • · Experience working in Agile, DevOps, or iterative delivery models
Qualifications
  • · Degree (or equivalent experience) in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline
  • · Relevant technical or professional certifications (desirable)
Working Style
  • · Analytical, structured, and detail-oriented
  • · Collaborative, delivery-focused, and proactive
  • · Comfortable balancing engineering quality with delivery pace
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