Grade UE07: £39,347 to £46,974 per annum.
College of Science & Engineering / EPCC.
Fixed Term Contract - Temporary - 2 Years - With strong likelihood of extension.
Full Time - 35 Hours Per Week.
The Opportunity:
An opportunity has arisen to join the fantastic team of system administrators and infrastructure specialists at EPCC, the UK’s leading centre for high performance computing and data science service provision.
With excellent Linux system administration skills and understanding of underlying infrastructure, your focus will be supporting and developing the diverse set of systems and architectures at our state-of-the-art 38MW supercomputing data centre. This hosts some of the most advanced and novel systems in the world, including the UK’s national supercomputing service (ARCHER2) and the Edinburgh International Data Facility (EIDF) which incorporates cutting edge AI capability such as both Kubernetes-based GPU and Cerebras CS-2 wafer scale clusters.
The role will be based at the Advanced Computing Facility in Midlothian. This is a wonderful opportunity to join a friendly and dynamic organisation that is at the forefront of technology innovation.
This post is full time (35 hours per week).
Your skills and attributes for success:
* A relevant degree plus some experience (or extensive experience without a degree) as a Linux system administrator with an enthusiasm to develop your skills in technologies such as Ansible, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph and Lustre, and apply them in the context of large-scale and high-performance computing.
* Dedication to the acquisition and sharing of subject matter expertise in relevant technical areas, including providing coaching and advice to help grow capability within the team.
* Drive to provide excellent service to users and independently follow tasks through to successful completion, while responding positively to changes in priorities.
* Ability to apply specialist system administration and infrastructure management skills to solve technically complex problems and generate innovative solutions to operational and development challenges, including identifying and recommending service improvements for example in areas including information security, logging, monitoring and visualisation.
* Excellent communication, collaborative and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional DevOps teams that can include technical, academic and research colleagues.
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As a valued member of our team you can expect:
* A competitive salary.
* An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
* To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.
* Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, and flexible work options. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page(opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits. An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. A huge variety of activities with a focus on developing staff and exceeding the expectations of our many stakeholders. A collaborative working environment where we will give you support to make the role your own.
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(opens new browser tab).
The University is able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. If successful, an international applicant requiring sponsorship to work in the UK will need to satisfy the UK Home Office’s English Language requirements and apply for and secure a Skilled Worker Visa.
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is 18th July 2024.
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Interviews will be held in July.
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