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Job summary

Main area
DDaT
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (per week)
Job ref
193-7126053CORB6ENG
Employer
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal Berkshire Hospital Main Site
Town
Reading
Salary
£37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
22/04/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust logo

Packaging Engineer

NHS AfC: Band 6

Royal Berkshire Hospital are pleased to announce that following our CQC inspection we have been rated ‘Good’ with inspectors reporting that we have made significant improvements.  The Trust’s overall rating has also improved to ‘good’.  This is a great opportunity to join our clinical or non-clinical teams to create a positive and motivating environment within our trust.  Come and join our team in this exciting time of change as we pride ourselves, our staff and our services on excellence.

At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust we put our patients at the heart of every element of health and care that we provide. The Trust works together as a community to deliver its vision which is “Working together to provide outstanding care for our community.”

We are Compassionate in our thoughts, words and actions

We are Aspirational and have a true desire to be dynamic and to innovate

We are Resourceful and responsible in the way we work and live

We are Excellent in our development, fairness and sharing best practice

Amazing things happen at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; delivered by amazing people so why don’t you come and join us.  We offer a range of learning and development for all employees may you be clinical or non-clinical.  

Job overview

The Packaging Engineer will be responsible for supporting the delivery of
technical excellence in their field of specialism and assisting the DevOps
Specialist in ensuring that all systems are optimally configured to provide a high-quality service to all RBH end users. The postholder will mainly be
responsible for undertaking the configuration, management and
maintenance of all hardware and software components of RBH’s network and infrastructure.


You will work within the infrastructure team collaborating with Server
Engineers, Devops Engineer and Device Engineer.


You will work specifically with the Devops Engineer, to lead on the software packaging capability for the organisation.


Together you will provide technical specialties and provide technical
expertise in application packaging and supporting technologies

Main duties of the job

• Provide software application packaging services to end users and deliver applications to end users that meet RBH deployment strategy and security policies.
• Work in a collaborative manner with other DDaT colleagues to deliver tasks successfully.
• Plan, configure, manage and maintain all hardware and software components of specialist area to deliver optimum system availability to users, and ensuring all supplier provided patches and upgrades to the operating system, database, tools and utilities are applied in a timely manner.
• Maintain the security and integrity of all systems related to specialist area including managing all user access rights and implementation of any necessary backup regimes and other disaster recovery procedures.
• Providing technical and administrative support for specialist systems, including the production of system specification documentation and the production of relevant procedures and protocols.
• Monitoring and managing system performance, capacity and growth, providing advice on necessary upgrades and replacement of hardware and software to maintain the reliability of the systems. Implement hardware changes and upgrades and database upgrades and migrations to maintain system performance and growth capacity.

• To maintain awareness of technical developments and research new technologies with a view to providing advice to DevOps Specialist on suitable deployment strategies for RBH.

Working for our organisation

Diversity makes us interesting… Inclusion is what will make us outstanding.

Inequality exists and the journey to eliminate it is not easy. Every step we take will be a purposeful step forward to deliver a truly inclusive culture where all our people are enabled to deliver outstanding care, where background is no barrier, and where everyone can be their authentic self and we truly represent our patient community.

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where possible. All applicants who have a disability and meet the minimum criteria for the post can opt for a guaranteed interview.

If you need additional help with your application please get in touch by calling the recruitment team on 0118 322 6997 or 0118 322 5342.

Our primary method of communication will be via email. However, if you would prefer to be contacted through a different method, please inform the recruitment team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Packaging Engineer will be responsible for supporting the delivery of
technical excellence in their field of specialism and assisting the DevOps
Specialist in ensuring that all systems are optimally configured to provide a high-quality service to all RBH end users. The postholder will mainly be
responsible for undertaking the configuration, management and
maintenance of all hardware and software components of RBH’s network and infrastructure.

You will work within the infrastructure team collaborating with Server
Engineers, Devops Engineer and Device Engineer.
You will work specifically with the Devops Engineer, to lead on the software packaging capability for the organisation.

Together you will provide technical specialties and provide technical
expertise in application packaging and supporting technologies.

Person specification

education

Essential criteria
  • Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area

experience

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrate qualification and expertise in software packaging, utilising industry standard technologies such as SCCM, AppV and MSIX AppAttach.
Desirable criteria
  • Recent (within the last year) experience of software packaging using industry standard tools (e.g. Flexera Admin Studio) and deployment of legacy Windows applications and UWP using SCCM or Intune

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Care quality commission - GoodMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Stonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.National Preceptorship for Nursing Quality Mark 2024Florence Nightingale Foundation

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Andrew Hubbard
Job title
Head of Digital Operations
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07780905647
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