Research Computing Infrastructure Officer

Full-time: 35 hours per week

Open-ended: permanent

The Opportunity:

A fantastic opportunity for someone with a background in Linux systems administration to join an IT team, develop your skills and be supported to progress your career, whilst working from a beautiful, vibrant, and modern campus.

Working in the Infrastructure Section of the Easter Bush campus Information Services (IS) team, the role will focus on developing solutions and providing support for the research computing needs of staff, students, and visitors on a busy campus. You will work alongside experts in high-performance computing, and utilise modern IT services to help support our research community to deliver against our colleges One Health research strategy. 

Experience with the use of automated installation tools, configuration management utilities, and administering open-source web server and databases is essential. You should also be accustomed to designing, deploying, and supporting infrastructure hosted on Microsoft Azure.

We are looking for an enthusiastic person who is prepared to work collaboratively with others, is willing to learn and develop new skills, and who has a drive for continuous improvement. If this sounds like you, please don’t hesitate to apply or get in touch for more information.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• Excellent interpersonal skills. 
• Able to translate highly technical information into non-technical, easily understood language.
• Good organisational, planning and time management skills, with the ability to cope with change, to multi-task and respond in a fast-paced working environment.
• Proven systematic and analytic approach to problem solving and able to innovate, conceiving new ways of working and exploit new technologies to deliver improvements.
• Willing to learn new skills, to develop and improve yourself and to help enhance the work of others. 

Interested parties should provide a cover letter and CV with their application by the recruitment deadline.

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