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Job Reference: 21080
Band: D
Salary: Up to £56,233 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent role
Location: Office Base is London, White City W12 and Salford, Media City. (Where hybrid, please include: This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.
If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk. For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk.
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’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 White City office in London, with a flexible mix of home working, office time, and occasional visits to data centres. Some out-of-hours work is expected.
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, and testing, and operation of infrastructure systems, ensuring improvements in the operating environment.
• Design, build, and support virtual and physical infrastructure systems
• Collaborate with engineers, architects, and project teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions
• Integrate systems with monitoring and support tools to ensure reliability and performance
• Automate operational tasks using scripting tools like PowerShell, Bash, and Python
• Write and maintain technical documentation and test plans
• Support system commissioning, troubleshooting, and maintenance
• Stay up to date with new technologies and industry trends
• Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical colleagues
• Mentor team members and contribute to knowledge sharing
We hire for potential, so if you’re passionate about infrastructure and eager to learn, we’d love to hear from you. Here are some of the skills and experience we are looking for:
Infrastructure & Hardware
• Experience with HPE ProLiant and Supermicro servers
• Familiarity with HPE Synergy systems and switch fabric integration
• Knowledge of HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure
Storage & Virtualisation
• Understanding of storage systems: iSCSI, Fibre Channel SANs, NFS, and arrays like HPE Nimble, Alletra, Tintri, and 3Par
• Experience with VMware vSphere 7/8, ESXi, vCenter, NSX-T, vSAN, and VMware Aria Suite
• Proficiency in VMware Identity Manager and NSX-T Distributed Firewall
Cloud & Backup
• Experience managing Kubernetes clusters
• Knowledge of backup and disaster recovery tools like Veeam, HPE StoreOnce, AWS S3, and Cohesity
Operating Systems & Networking
• Admin experience with Windows Server, Ubuntu, and RHEL Linux
• Familiarity with Active Directory and DNS
• Experience with network virtualisation and security policy configuration
Automation & DevOps
• Scripting skills in PowerShell, Bash, or Python
• Experience with GitHub, Subversion, and Octopus Deploy
• Use of Ansible, Terraform, and GitOps for infrastructure automation
IT Security & Compliance
• Strong understanding of IT security principles. Experience implementing security best practices in server environments and adhering to compliance standards.
Soft Skills
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Ability to explain technical concepts to different audiences.
• A collaborative approach to problem-solving and solution design.
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons 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.
We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here.
Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here.
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