Job Information
- Job ID: 11318
- Location: Argyle House, Edinburgh, EH3 9DR, GB (Hybrid working)
- Organization: Edinburgh University Group
- Department: Operations
- Application Deadline: 3rd January 2025, 23:59
- Health & Safety Requirements: No key hazards identified
- Criminal Record Check: Not required
- Contract Type: Open-ended
- Work Schedule: Full-time
- Job Grade: UE08
- Number of Positions: 1
- Job Role: IT
Job Description
Join our innovative Technical Operations team at EDINA. You will oversee the management of EDINA’s infrastructure services. This is a full-time, open-ended role, classified as Grade UE08, located in central Edinburgh. The position offers a hybrid work model requiring at least one day per week on campus, reporting to the Head of Technical Operations.
Benefits We Offer:
- A competitive salary ranging from £49,250 to £60,321 per annum.
- A senior position within EDINA’s Technical Operations team, managing infrastructure components such as Puppet, Kubernetes, Gitlab, and New Relic.
- 40 days of annual leave per year, including festive closure days.
- A highly competitive defined-benefit pension scheme with notable employer contributions.
- Flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance.
- An annual paid leave day for a volunteering activity of your choice.
- Access to extensive online learning resources and a Staff Scholarship fund.
- Various staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, and support for wellbeing.
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What the Job Involves:
- Expert administration of key EDINA systems including Linux VMs, Gitlab, Puppet, and Kubernetes, among others.
- Support and maintain IT infrastructure for EDINA’s revenue-generating services ensuring minimal downtime.
- Develop and maintain robust quality control and management processes to uphold consistent service levels.
- Manage and maintain staff device inventory, ensuring it complies with information security requirements.
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About You:
- You have significant experience managing pivotal systems that ensure service resilience at EDINA.
- You possess strong people skills with the ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- You are technically adept, ideally with experience in cloud service delivery.
- You have knowledge of best practices in cluster management.
- You proactively identify needs and solutions to strengthen and secure our technical infrastructure.
Application Procedure:
For informal inquiries about the role, contact Alexander Brelsfoard (Head of Technical Operations) at [email protected].
The University values equality, diversity, and inclusion. We invite candidates with the right skills to apply, irrespective of age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, or race.
Candidates must evidence the Right to Work in the UK before commencing employment. The University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International candidates can only apply if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
To apply, submit your CV and cover letter by midnight on 3rd January 2025. Interviews will be conducted in-person in January 2025.
About Us
As a leading research-intensive University, we focus on addressing future challenges with a values-driven approach in our teaching, research, and innovation, strengthened through our local and global relationships.
About the Team
EDINA is a digital product specialist, developing large-scale online services, mobile apps, and tools for education. Our expertise spans geospatial and satellite data, computational learning, text and data mining, e-preservation, and machine learning. Learn more at https://edina.ac.uk/