Senior System Engineer

BBC Studios Ltd; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 62,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent broadcasting organization in Salford seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to design, build, and maintain secure infrastructures. This role involves collaborating with engineering teams and automating tasks using scripting tools. The successful candidate will have hands-on experience with HPE servers and VMware, along with strong skills in Windows Server and Linux. The role offers a competitive salary of up to £62,250 and a flexible working arrangement.

Benefits

Flexible working

25 days annual leave

Defined pension scheme

Discounted health care and gym

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with HPE servers, Synergy systems and VMware vSphere.
• Knowledge of SAN/NFS storage and backup tools like Veeam.
• Skilled in Windows Server, Linux (Ubuntu/RHEL), Active Directory, DNS.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable infrastructures.
• Collaborate with engineers and project teams to deliver reliable solutions.
• Automate tasks using scripting tools and integrate monitoring tools.

Skills

HPE servers

VMware vSphere

Nutanix

PowerShell

Python

Ansible

GitHub

Job description

Overview

JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Technical Operations
LOCATION: Salford with hybrid working.
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: Up to £62,250 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you’ll play a key role in delivering and maintaining these platforms. You’ll work across the full lifecycle—from planning and design to implementation, testing, and support. You’ll also help improve how we work by introducing new tools, automating processes, and sharing your expertise with the team.

This role is based at our Salford office, with a flexible mix of home working, office time, and occasional visits to data centres. Some out-of-hours work is expected.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

The BBC’s Technical Operations (TechOps) team is responsible for building and managing the IT infrastructure that supports our broadcast and enterprise systems. This includes both virtual and physical platforms hosted in BBC and external data centres across London, Salford, and other global locations.

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will play a key role in supporting the technical roadmap and maintenance for the BBC Technical Operations (TechOps), hosting Infrastructure and Platform Engineering Team’s virtual and physical IT infrastructure platforms. Your responsibilities will focus on collaborating with engineering teams in the planning, design, development, integration, commissioning, testing and operation of infrastructure systems, ensuring improvements are met in the operating environment.

Your key responsibilities and impact

• Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable infrastructure (virtual and physical).
• Collaborate with engineers and project teams to deliver reliable solutions.
• Automate tasks using scripting tools (PowerShell, Bash, Python).
• Integrate monitoring tools and troubleshoot to ensure performance.
• Create clear technical documentation and share knowledge with the team.
• Stay ahead of tech trends and mentor colleagues.

Your skills and experience

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Infrastructure & Virtualisation: Hands-on experience with HPE servers, Synergy systems and VMware vSphere (ESXi, vCenter, NSX-T, vSAN), Nutanix.
• Storage & Backup: Knowledge of SAN/NFS storage (HPE Nimble, Alletra, 3Par; TinTri VMstore and Pure Flash Array) and backup tools like Veeam, StoreOnce, AWS S3, Cohesity.
• OS & Networking: Skilled in Windows Server, Linux (Ubuntu/RHEL), Active Directory, DNS, and network security policies.
• Automation & DevOps: Proficient in scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python) and tools like Ansible, Terraform, GitHub, and Octopus Deploy.

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

Information at a Glance

This is your BBC

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Find out more about the BBC

Life at BBC

Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis or on an orchestra conditions contract.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy

Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we’d be happy to discuss: reasonable.adjustments_at_bbc.co.uk

BBC Group and Public Services, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom, W1A 1AA. BBC Studios Distribution Limited, company no: 01420028, registered address: 1 Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, United Kingdom W12 7FA.