WEG Tech Coventry, England, United Kingdom
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Recruitment Manager - WEG Tech | University of Warwick
Overview
We are seeking a permanent Senior Linux System Administrator to support a Scientific Computing Research department within a university environment. The role will architect, develop, operate, and support storage, network, virtualization and server infrastructure to standards necessary to enable internationally competitive research.
The role will be based within a well-established research facility at the University, providing advanced research computing support to departments across campus. This includes provision of a managed Linux desktop environment for research computing, large scale data storage facilities, and high-performance computing (HPC).
The infrastructure team provides an expertise pool in scientific hardware deployments, installations, monitoring, problem solving and problem mitigation. This team underpins all the activities of Computational Research at the University. This post will have a clear strategic position managing the research storage and providing core services via the virtualisation platform.
Responsibilities
* Development, maintenance and monitoring of our storage systems.
* Development, maintenance and monitoring of a new virtualisation platform.
* Support of our datacentre activities.
* Lead on the architectural design of storage and virtualisation systems, as well as network and underlying server infrastructure to specifications and standards necessary to enable internationally competitive research.
* Operate and maintain server infrastructure based on appropriate Linux distributions.
* Coordinate infrastructure operations within the broader context of research computing facilities, the Linux desktop, the High-Performance Computing (HPC) clusters and the virtualisation facilities, by working with the team.
* Work with the team to operate and maintain the facilities with focus on storage and virtualization systems using expert Linux system administration skills.
* Develop and manage information security policies, within university policy and in collaboration with the central security team, to ensure ongoing software maintenance and patching.
* Design and implement storage backup and disaster recovery procedures in line with relevant policies and processes for the facilities.
* Write and maintain documentation on system design and management processes for knowledge sharing within the team.
* Implement configuration management and revision control to ensure changes are tracked and auditable.
* Implement infrastructure monitoring and alerting to detect problems and reduce downtime.
* Plan and implement physical infrastructure deployments within the data centre in collaboration with Estates Office and the Information and Digital Group as needed.
* Test and evaluate new technology for future use as part of the facilities.
* Provide reasonable out-of-hours systems support where warranted by major disruption or outages affecting mission-critical services.
Qualifications
* Degree, or equivalent, in a subject relevant to scientific computing.
* Strong Linux/UNIX system administration experience in large-scale, technology-driven environments with exposure to server and storage hardware.
* Experience working as part of a highly skilled technical team and supporting expert users in a research environment with documentation and training materials.
* Expert knowledge of storage technologies (NAS, iSCSI, FC, volume management, replication, mirroring, tiering, RAID concepts, erasure codes, clustering, snapshots) and filesystems (NFS, SMB, Ceph, MinIO) plus backup/archiving.
* Ability to automate data movement and manage scripting/programming for system administration.
* Expert knowledge of virtualization solutions (KVM, oVirt, Proxmox) and server virtualization.
* Working knowledge of Ethernet networks and DNS, DHCP, PXE, TFTP, IPv4/IPv6.
* Experience with automated Linux provisioning, packaging, deployment, configuration management, revision control and support tracking systems.
* Knowledge of cluster and HPC technologies, data centre operations, and security practices (encryption, hardening, logging, auditing).
* Experience with data-intensive, research environments and user-facing support.
* Experience preparing draft financial plans for upgrades and future expansions based on user requirements.
Contact
For more information please contact Pete.Hampshire@warwick.ac.uk
WEG Tech is acting as an internal recruitment business for this vacancy.
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Management and Information Technology
Industries
* IT System Data Services
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