Systems Engineer

Date Posted:

2026-08-03

Country:

United Kingdom

Location:

Gloucester, South Gloucestershire

Position Role Type:

Onsite

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world.

Raytheon brings the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. We deliver solutions that help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression, creating a safer, more secure world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

Systems Engineer

Gloucester - Onsite fulltime

Position

Raytheon UK have a full time on-site, permanent opportunity for a Systems Engineer to join our team in Gloucester.

We are looking for a talented engineer to be part of IT support team delivering support to engineers and wider business, ensuring the smooth operation of hardware, software, networks, and business‑critical systems. Your primary role would be to maintain a reliable IT environment and act as a bridge between project and business units via the JIRA Service Desk.

This area of the business provides ISO27001:2022 aligned IT support at scale. Collaborating with engineers to create, maintain and deliver secure, mission critical systems.

Due to the interesting work we do and the sector this team is working in, we require all candidates to be willing and eligible to hold SC and eDV clearance.

Key Responsibilities:

Perform routine maintenance, patching, and updates of the IT estate

Conduct regular audits, reports and risk assessments

Provide technical support to end users across thin clients, laptops, mobile devices, and peripherals

Manage user accounts, onboard, offboard, manage permissions, and access to internal and external systems

Contribute to the completion of milestones associated with your IT projects

Maintain accurate documentation of incidents, resolutions, and asset inventory

Assist with onboarding/offboarding processes, including device setup and recovery

Support meeting rooms, AV equipment, printers, and telephony systems

Diagnose and resolve hardware, software, and network issues on‑site

Required Skills and Experience

Experience of maintaining the laptop estate via the endpoint management software

Knowledge of networking, including security and IT governance frameworks

Working experience with IT project delivery

Administration of Atlassian JIRA and Confluence

PowerShell script writing and troubleshooting skills

Strong knowledge of Windows and macOS

Prior experience with working independently on‑site with minimal supervision

Additional Skills and Experience

CompTIA Network+, ITIL 4, ISO27001 or similar certification

Benefits:

Competitive salary

Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)

6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension

25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)

Company bonus scheme (discretionary)

Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others

Enhanced sick pay

Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave

Work Culture

37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.

Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!

Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.

Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.

Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role) - please highlight any requests to the Talent Acquisition team.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.