Lead Systems Engineer

Elekta; Crawley; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Are you a current Elekta employee?

Please click here to apply through our internal career site Find Jobs - Elekta.

Want to join a team with a mission to improve and save lives?

We continually look for motivated and skilled individuals who are interested in supporting our customers – healthcare professionals who use our products to help patients and their communities.

We currently have the following opportunity available - please contact us for more details!

We don’t just build technology. We build hope.

Are you ready to revolutionize cancer care through cutting-edge technology? At Elekta, we are a global leader in precision radiation medicine, dedicated to providing advanced radiotherapy solutions for cancer care and brain disorders. Our mission is to ensure every patient receives precise, personalized treatment.

We are looking for an experienced Lead Systems Engineer to join our team and play a pivotal role in defining the strategy and roadmap for deployment architectures that support our oncology and radiation therapy solutions across hospitals and clinics worldwide.

You will bring broad expertise in solutions engineering, including compute, storage, networking infrastructure, and hybrid environments with Azure or AWS cloud. Your specialization in software infrastructure, including virtualization, operating systems, and databases, will be crucial in designing high-performance, scalable, and cost-effective deployment architectures.

If you're passionate about creating reliable, high-performance solutions and making a difference in the lives of patients globally, we want to hear from you!

What you’ll do at Elekta:

Your responsibilities will include (but are not limited to):

• Partner with software architecture, development teams, and business stakeholders to define infrastructure strategies that are scalable and meet the needs of the business.
• Design deployment architectures for high availability, performance, and cost-efficiency across on-premise (e.g., HP, Intel, Nvidia) and cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS).
• Evaluate and recommend hardware, software, and networking solutions, including virtualization strategies (e.g., Hyper-V, Kubernetes, VMware).
• Manage relationships with hardware and software vendors to stay aligned with their roadmaps and offerings.
• Collaborate with hardware vendors and application teams to optimize performance and reliability. Scale and optimize infrastructure to support increasing user and application demands.
• Create and maintain an internal roadmap for third-party components (e.g., servers, workstations, GPUs, OS, platform software), ensuring alignment with product teams.
• Develop a strategy for managing third-party software licenses, ensuring compliance and cost-effectiveness.
• Communicate strategies and ideas to ensure that both technical and non-technical stakeholders are aligned.

The right stuff:

• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse teams and articulate technical concepts clearly.
• Ability to apply commercial awareness when making technical decisions.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, use initiative, and be proactive.
• Strong quality culture, ethical standards, values, and good judgment.
• Critical thinking with the ability to provide feedback and formulate improvement plans.

What you bring:

*We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every requirement—your unique skills and experiences might be exactly what we're looking for!

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in system engineering, infrastructure architecture, or related roles.
• Experience with cloud architectures (Azure, AWS), virtualization technologies, and building scalable infrastructure solutions.
• Comfort with networking, storage, and security best practices, with a focus on ease of management and long-term stability.
• Experience working in a product development setting using Agile methodologies.

What you’ll get:

In this role, you will work for a higher purpose; hope for everyone dealing with cancer, and for everyone regardless of where in the world, to have access to the best cancer care. In addition to this, Elekta offers a range of benefits.

• Hybrid work option (you are required to work from the Crawley HQ at least 3 days/week)
• Up to 25 paid vacation days (plus bank holidays)
• Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• Attractive Employer Pension Contribution Package
• Cycle to work scheme
• Life Assurance
• Onsite subsidized restaurant, offering budget-friendly dining
• Love electric (Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme)

Hiring process

We are looking forward to hearing from you! Apply by submitting your application and résumé in English, via the “Apply” button. Please note that we do not accept applications by e-mail.

Your Elekta contact

For questions, please contact the Global Talent Acquisition Partner responsible, Sarah Elmasry, at [e-mail]. We do not accept applications through e-mail.

We are an equal opportunity employer

We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.