Senior Linux Systems Administrator

This role is within the Datacentre and Operations team, which along with Client Services, and Network and Security Services teams, form the Infrastructure Services Group. The Datacentre and Operations team researches, designs, develops, implements and maintains services and processes to provide centralised compute and storage across the whole University. The role holder should have a good understanding of a broad range of information technology principals as well as in-depth technical knowledge of Linux enterprise and HPC technologies. If you're interested in this exciting opportunity, please click here to view a comprehensive list of duties and responsibilities, and more on how you may be suitable for the role. What we will need from you: You will: Be a technical lead in the development and management of Linux and HPC services and related infrastructure to agreed requirements. You will be viewed as the technical lead for areas of your responsibility and expected to lead appropriately in this area whilst managing risk. Evaluate and recommend new and innovative Linux enterprise and HPC technologies and solutions where a potential benefit to the University can be demonstrated. Initiate relationships and work proactively with multiple stakeholders (academic schools and professional service departments), to understand their computational and infrastructure needs, making key recommendations and providing appropriate help and advice in development and support issues to best serve customer requirements and meet strategic objectives. Provide technical support to academic staff and researchers using Linux and HPC systems, including troubleshooting, resolving issues, and offering guidance on system best practices. Assisting with setting up their computational environments, including batch job submission, job scheduling, and resource allocation. Be fully conversant with the change management and incident handling procedures and ensure they are effectively implemented and escalated when appropriate. Participating in the "Out of Hours Support" Scheme if required.

Information Services designs, implements and maintains the business and academic IT systems and services to support the Universities strategic and operational goals; supports staff, students and stakeholders to engage with IT systems and learning resource; supports cross Information Services (IS) engagement in service improvement, incident resolution and provide the link between development teams and frontline staff.