Senior System Administrator

Senior System Administrator

Edinburgh University Group

Competitive salary of UE08 £49,250 - £60,321 per annum.

Department: EDINA

Permanent, Full time

Edinburgh - Central Area, Midlothian, United Kingdom (Hybrid working)

Job REF:11318

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:

·        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;

·        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.

Application procedure:

To apply, please upload a CV and cover letter.

What we can offer you:

·        A competitive salary of UE08 £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 

Use our reward calculator to find out the total value of the pay and benefits for this role. 

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. 

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab).

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. 

Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone. 

 Interviews will be held In-person week commencing 4th of November. 

About Us

As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.

About the Team

EDINA are specialists in developing and delivering digital products including large-scale online services, mobile apps and digital tools for education. Our expertise includes geospatial and satellite data, computational learning, text and data mining, e-preservation and machine learning.

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Closing Date: 23rd October 2024 11:59 PM