Senior Research Infrastructure Developer

About us

UCL is a world-leading teaching and research university, often ranked in the top ten in the world with an annual turnover of well over £1 billion. Part of UCL’s vision is to take on the hardest global challenges.

The UCL Centre for Advanced Research Computing (ARC) is UCL’s new institute for infrastructure and innovation in digital research – the supercomputers, datasets, software, and people that make computational science and digital scholarship possible.
We describe our research professionals within four groupings – Research Software Developers, Research Infrastructure Developers, Research Data Stewards, and Research Data Scientists and welcome those who cross the boundaries between these. This post will sit primarily within the Research Infrastructure Developers job family. Research Infrastructure Developers also known as Research Infrastructure Engineers, Research Data Engineers, ML-Ops, Res-Ops, Dev-Ops Engineer, etc.

About the role

You’ll design, develop and automate private-cloud infrastructure at ARC using cloud-native tools and modern infrastructure as code techniques. You'll have the opportunity to work across the entire stack, from automating firewall configuration and networking, to designing CI/CD pipelines and building user-facing tools with Kubernetes.

About you

We are particularly interested in hearing from people with skills and experience (or a strong willingness to learn!) in the following:

• Kubernetes, Docker and Containerisation
• Devops - CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code (including tools such as Terraform, GitHub Actions, Ansible)
• Virtualisation

To be considered for this role candidates will be required to have qualifications, skills and experience in the following:

• PhD Degree OR equivalent professional expertise appropriate to the role.
• Practical knowledge of operating systems and their maintenance, directory & authentication technologies, and TCP/IP networking, including familiarity with common Internet protocols.
• Experience with the Linux command line shell.
• Automation of processes with appropriate versionable languages.
• Experience in a number of successfully completed complex technical projects, having had a leading role in bringing about those successes (either technically or managerially).

Sound like you and in interested? Then please reach out to me for further information about and more information about the role and UCL! Salary range for grade 8 Senior Research Software Engineer is £51,474 to £65,698 including London Allowance depending on experience. USS pension Scheme offers staff contribute 6.1% and UCL will contribute 14.6%

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (including 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• This post is eligible for USS Pension Scheme
  • defined benefit scheme
  • staff contribute 6.1% and UCL will contribute 14.6%
  • Life insurance is included (3x salary)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme
• Discounted medical insurance

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

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. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be under-represented in UCL’s workforce.

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