11318 - Senior System Administrator

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 UE08, full-time, open-ended 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., Providing expert administration of a number of key EDINA systems including Linux VMs, Gitlab, Puppet, Prometheus/Alertmanager, Elasticsearch, Sentry, Grafana, Log shipping, Kubernetes, Postgres, VPN, New Relic.
Support and maintain EDINA IT infrastructure to ensure day-to-day smooth running, with minimal downtime of EDINA's income-generating services.
Develop and maintain appropriate measurement, quality control and management processes to maintain service levels consistently.
Maintaining staff device inventory ensuring alignment with information security requirements.


A bit about you

You will have considerable experience of managing key systems used by EDINA to deliver service resilience.
You will have good people skills able to communicate with technical and non- technical audiences.
You will be strongly technical, ideally with experience of cloud service delivery.
You will have knowledge of best practice cluster management.
You will be proactive in finding needs and solutions for strengthening and securing our technical infrastructure.

A competitive salary of £49,250 - £60,321 per annum.
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.
Generous annual leave allowance of 40 days per year (inclusive of festive closure days).
Highly competitive defined-benefit pension scheme with a substantial employer contribution.
A range of flexible working options to help prioritise work/life balance.
A day of paid leave annually for your chosen volunteering activity.
Access to excellent online learning and a Staff Scholarship fund.
Varied staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, support for staff wellbeing and more.
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