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Job reference: PSX-029528
Salary: £47,389 to £58,225 per annum, dependent on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Professional Services
Location: Oxford Road
Employment type: Fixed Term
Division/Team: IT Services Research IT
Hours Per Week: Full Time (1 FTE)
Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 26/08/2025
Contract Duration: 36 months
School/Directorate: Directorate of IT Services
The University of Manchester
The University is a global institution known for innovation, world firsts, brilliant discoveries, and has 25 Nobel Prize winners amongst current and former staff and students. The computer revolution started here in 1948 when a machine known affectionately as ‘The Baby’, ran its first stored program. The celebrated wartime codebreaker Alan Turing worked on this computer during his time at Manchester.
The University has committed to becoming one of the world’s leading research institutions through one of the largest investments in facilities ever seen at a UK university, with £750 million spent so far and another £1 billion to follow.
Research IT (RIT)
Researchers at the University carry out research in many areas, including advanced materials, biotechnology, climate, and energy sources. RIT is a fast-growing, diverse, friendly, can-do group within IT Services which closely supports the research community by delivering specialist IT capabilities which are critical to the success of the researchers.
This role will be within the Research Infrastructure and Platforms Team which comprises 25+ IT specialists developing and delivering a number of services to the University research community. These include: high-performance computing (HPC) and high-throughput computing (HTC); AWS/Azure-based platforms; resilient and high-performance storage; edge computing; custom Web stacks; and highly-secure platforms for hosting sensitive data.
This Role
We Are Looking For Someone To
* help with the development and maintenance of our cloud-based computational platforms, HPC/HTC (40%);
* provide in-depth technical support to our users (40%);
* help write and deliver face-to-face training courses (10%);
* engage with the research community (10%).
For further details and to ask questions, you are strongly encouraged to contact simon.hood@manchester.ac.uk.
Essential Skills
* Cloud (Azure/AWS) experience involving design, deployment, configuration and optimisation.
* In-depth knowledge of the Linux operating system, including administration and support.
* The ability to work as an effective part of a team and to establish productive relationships with a wide range of people including academics, researchers, both technical and non-technical, IT staff, research support staff, and external partners.
* Enthusiasm and initiative: the capacity to anticipate problems and find solutions; the ability to see opportunities and take advantage of them; a desire to learn new skills — both technical and non-technical.
* Good face-to-face and written communication skills.
Desirable Skills
* Experience working within an academic research environment.
* Experience installing scientific software packages using a variety of methods (e.g. source compilation, containers).
* A good working knowledge of GPU technologies, installing and/or using common libraries and applications, and research focussed workflows.
* Experience with workload/container orchestration using Kubernetes or similar platforms.
* Experience with container runtimes such as Docker, Rkt, runC, containers and how they are enabled by the underlying OS.
* Experience of using at least one high-level programming language (e.g. BASH).
Benefits
* 29 days annual leave allowance, plus Christmas/New Year closure;
* Pension scheme membership;
* Hybrid working (the team is usually on campus 2 days a week)
* Well-being programme including fitness and sports facilities;
* Learning and development opportunities;
* Season ticket loans for public transport;
* Cycle to Work Scheme;
* Workplace nursery scheme;
* Staff recognition schemes;
* Staff discounts on a range of products and services including travel and high street savings.
As an equal opportunities employer we support an inclusive working environment and welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender expression, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.
Our University is positive about flexible working – you can find out more
Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.
Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.
Any CV’s submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift.
Enquiries About The Vacancy, Shortlisting And Interviews
Name: Simon Hood
Email
General enquiries:
Technical Support
This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.
Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.
Please be aware that due to the number of applications we are unfortunately not able to provide individual feedback on your application.
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