Senior Research Infrastructure Engineer

The Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the IT Services team at the University of Bradford as a Senior Research Infrastructure Engineer. These are newly created roles reflecting the importance of research activity to the University.

You will contribute to the University's IT transformation programme and will be responsible for a range of technology areas relating to our research infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Essential: Degree level, or equivalent qualifications in a computer related discipline. For internal candidates, appropriate equivalent experience will be considered
• Essential: Microsoft / VMWare qualified, or equivalent experience

Experience, skills, and knowledge

Extensive experience in managing servers and storage with excellent Windows, Linux, and VMWare skills. Please see the job description for full details.

Previous experience of working in a Higher Education environment supporting academic research colleagues would be a distinct advantage

Rewards and benefits

• Salary: Grade 9; £45,737 to £52,841 (potential to increase to £59,450 through our performance and recognition scheme)
• Pension: USS defined benefits pension scheme
• Annual leave: 30 days (or 217.5 hours)
• Eight bank holidays and five customary days

Find more information about the many other benefits, including salary sacrifice schemes and campus nursery:

https://www.bradford.ac.uk/human-resources/employee-reward-and-benefits/

Additional information

• Hiring manager: Darren Williams
• Number of vacancies for this role: One
• Location: Hybrid
• Work pattern: Typical hours: 36.25 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Some work can only be completed out of normal working hours. It is therefore important that applicants can work or be contacted occasionally during unsocial hours, including weekends
• Possible adjustments: We are open to any request for adjustments to support your needs around working hours flexibility, training, and mentoring, which would enable you to succeed in this role
• Application process: Test and Interview

Next Steps

Apply now or if you wish to discuss the role you can message or book a call with Jon Bagshaw, the manager for this role via the ‘Contact us’ section of our IT recruitment site:

https://www.bradford.ac.uk/it-services/careers-in-it/

Our recruitment site contains other useful information and videos including the full job description, an explanation of the recruitment process, and what it's like to work in our department.

Further details:

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