RESPONSIBILITIES
Job title: System EngineerEngagement 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
- · Integrate components across infrastructure, applications, networks, and services
- · Ensure systems meet security, resilience, and compliance standards
- · Identify and manage technical risks, issues, and dependencies
- · 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
- · 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
- · 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
- · 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
- · Degree (or equivalent experience) in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline
- · Relevant technical or professional certifications (desirable)
- · Analytical, structured, and detail-oriented
- · Collaborative, delivery-focused, and proactive
- · Comfortable balancing engineering quality with delivery pace




