Senior IT Officer

About us

The Department of Imaging Neuroscience incorporating the Leopold Muller Functional Imaging Laboratory, The Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging and the Max Planck-UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing at Russell Square house) is an interdisciplinary Department for neuroimaging excellence. We bring together clinicians and scientists who study higher cognitive function using neuroimaging techniques. Our goal is to understand how thought and perception arise from brain activity, and how such processes break down in neurological and psychiatric disease.

The IT team in the Department of Imaging Neuroscience, led by Ric Davis, provides high quality bespoke support to staff and students within the Department, as well as assistance to external collaborators.

About the role

We’re recruiting a Senior IT Officer to provide general IT support to the Department and develop appropriate services for both research and administrative staff using both Linux and Windows-based systems. Main duties include providing desk-side user support, first-, second-, and third-line remote technical support for hardware and software, developing new IT services, and maintaining network infrastructure.

The role is available from immediately and funded by a Wellcome grant until 30 November 2023 in the first instance.

If you have any queries regarding the application process, please contact the Institute of Neurology HR Team (ion.hradmin@ucl.ac.uk).

Informal enquiries regarding the role can be addressed to Mr Ric Davis (r.davis@ucl.ac.uk).

For a full job description and to apply for this role please visit UCL’s online recruitment portal (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?jobId=4651&jobTitle=Senior%20IT%20Officer).

About you

You’ll have an undergraduate degree in Computer Science or a relevant area, or equivalent professional experience. Experience of configuring and maintaining client and server hardware is essential, as is experience of working with Windows server/client operating systems / Linux (Alma, Ubuntu). Knowledge of Active Directory / Group Policy, experience of networking technologies (DNS, DHCP, NFS, SMB) and of virtualisation (Hyper-V, KVM, VirtualBox) are also required. You will be expected to display excellent problem-solving abilities, including the ability to diagnose complex software issues. Good interpersonal skills with an ability to work co-operatively in a multidisciplinary setting are also essential for this role.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits; visit

visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

We will consider applications to work on a part-time, flexible, and job share basis wherever possible.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. 12% of Institute staff are actively working on EDI initiatives; visit

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ion/equality-diversity-inclusion for more information about what we’re doing. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce; these include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds, disabled people, LGBTQI+ people, and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

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