Senior System Administrator

An exciting opportunity to join EDINA’s Technical Operations section with responsibility for the management of EDINA’s infrastructure level services.  This role is full-time (35 hours per week) and open-ended, based in central Edinburgh.  The role is hybrid, you will report to the Head of Technical Operations and will be on campus a minimum of one day per week.

What the job involves:

• Providing expert administration of a number of key EDINA systems including Gitlab, Puppet, Prometheus/Alertmanager, Elasticsearch, Sentry, Grafana, Log shipping, Kubernetes, Postgres, VPN, New Relic;
• Support and maintain EDINA IT infrastructure to ensure day-to-day smooth running, with minimal downtime of EDINA’s income-generating services;
• Develop and maintain appropriate measurement, quality control and management processes to maintain service levels consistently;
• Maintaining staff device inventory ensuring alignment with information security requirements.

A bit about you:

• You will have considerable experience of managing key systems used by EDINA to deliver service resilience;
• You will have good people skills able to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences;
• You will be strongly technical, ideally with experience of cloud service delivery;
• You will have knowledge of best practice cluster management.

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Application procedure:

To apply, upload a CV and cover letter. We welcome informal enquiries about the role – to find out more email Anne Robertson (Director of EDINA) a.m.robertson@ed.ac.uk 

What we can offer you:

• A competitive salary.
• A senior role in EDINA’s Technical Operations team with responsibility for managing the infrastructure level components of EDINA’s services including Puppet, Kubernetes, Gitlab, New Relic
• A day of paid leave annually for your chosen volunteering activity
• Access to online learning and a Staff Scholarship fund
• Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, and flexible work options. Check the full list on our staff benefits page and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits.

Championing equality, diversity and inclusion

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality. 

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages.

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK. 

Key dates to note

The closing date is 23rd October 2024. 

Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone. 

Interviews will be held In-person week commencing 4^th of November. 

To find out more, visit https://edina.ac.uk/

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