Technical Specialist in Compute Technologies

The role

Bristol Digital Futures Institute (BDFI), at the University of Bristol, is recruiting a team of enthusiastic and talented technology specialists to work on a ground-breaking sector-agnostic digital twin research facility, the Reality Emulator.  This role will be part of a 8-person Reality Emulator technical team and will lead on compute technologies.

This role is known internally as Level 1 Technical Expert - Compute Technologies

BDFI is an interdisciplinary institute that brings together world leading experts from across the University with our network of partners to pioneer transformative approaches to digital technology innovation. Founded in 2019, with more than £100 of investment from Research England, philanthropic sources, and commitments from 26 external cross-sector partners, ranging from major tech corporates to start-ups, public bodies to community organisations.  BDFI is leading and enabling the development of globally significant research and innovation programmes and these unique facilities. We are based in the first building to be opened on University’s new flagship Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus in Bristol.

For more information about BDFI and The Sheds location where the roles are based see:

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/bristol-digital-futures-institute/

What will you be doing?

As a Technology specialist – compute technologies, you will be working day to day in managing a new VMWare private cloud infrastructure consisting of high end / general purpose GPUs with a VDI infrastructure.  Responsibilities will include:

• Responsible for end-to-end management of the environment including building new tenancies, aka isolated private compute environments.
• Responsible for deploying infrastructure as code.
• Assist in troubleshooting the environments.
• Managing customer/user expectations.

You should apply if

For this role we are looking for someone who is highly experienced in the following technical areas:

• VMWare
• Windows / Linux operating systems
• Active Directory / Azure active directory
• On premise / cloud-based monitoring systems

You will be a proven team player and are happy to take on new challenges and are comfortable learning new technologies.

Additional information

For informal queries please contact Kobi Merrikin - rt23494@bristol.ac.uk

Shortlisting will take place on July 9^th and the interview is planned for July 23^rd 2024.

We anticipate the post holder for this role to be on site a minimum of 3 days a week

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