Grade UE07: £40,247 to £47,874 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:
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a friendly and dynamic organisation that is at the forefront of technology innovation. EPCC at the University of Edinburgh is the UK’s leading centre for research supercomputing and data science service provision. We host and manage leading edge systems at our state-of-the-art 38MW Advanced Computing Facility (ACF). These include the UK’s national supercomputing service (ARCHER2), a Trusted Research Environment in which we host Safe Haven Services and the Edinburgh International Data Facility (EIDF) which includes a portfolio of services from basic data download, through simple learn-as-you-play-with-data notebooks, to GPU-enabled machine-learning platforms for driving AI application development.
As part of the EPCC Systems team of system administrators and research infrastructure engineers, you will help support and develop the systems that enable world-class academic and public sector research, increase the depth and breadth of your technical skills and grow as a technical lead. With excellent Linux system administration skills and understanding of underlying infrastructure, your focus will be on supporting and developing the diverse and novel set of systems and architectures that underpin our EIDF services. These include an OpenStack-based data science cloud, an AI-capable Kubernetes GPU cluster that includes the latest generation NVIDIA chips, a Cerebras waferscale cluster that specialises in machine learning, and shared, large-capacity Ceph storage.
The post is full time (35 hours per week) and will be based at the ACF in Midlothian and the Bayes Centre in Edinburgh.
Your skills and attributes for success:
* A relevant degree plus at least two years’ experience (or at least five years’ experience without a degree) as a Linux system administrator / research infrastructure engineer with an enthusiasm to develop your skills in technologies such as Ansible, Kubernetes, OpenStack, storage platforms (particularly Ceph), 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.
As a valued member of our team you can expect:
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.
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.
If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages.
Key dates to note:
The closing date for applications is 28 February 2025.
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Interviews will be held in March/April.
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.
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