An exciting opportunity to join EDINA’s Technical Operations section with responsibility for the management of EDINA’s infrastructure level services. This is a Grade 8, full-time (35 hours per week), open-ended (permanent) position 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:
1. 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;
2. Support and maintain EDINA IT infrastructure to ensure day-to-day smooth running, with minimal downtime of EDINA’s income-generating services;
3. Develop and maintain appropriate measurement, quality control and management processes to maintain service levels consistently;
4. Maintaining staff device inventory ensuring alignment with information security requirements.
A bit about you:
5. You will have considerable experience of managing key systems used by EDINA to deliver service resilience;
6. You will have good people skills able to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences;
7. You will be strongly technical, ideally with experience of cloud service delivery;
8. You will have knowledge of best practice cluster management.
Application procedure:
What we can offer you:
9. A competitive salary of UE08 £49,250 - £60,321 per annum.
10. 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
11. Generous annual leave allowance of 40 days per year (inclusive of festive closure days)
12. Highly competitive defined-benefit pension scheme with a substantial employer contribution
13. A range of flexible working options to help prioritise work/life balance
14. A day of paid leave annually for your chosen volunteering activity
15. Access to excellent online learning and a Staff Scholarship fund
16. Varied, and more
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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.
On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore 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.
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Interviews will be held In-person week commencing 4th of November.