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 Information Services Division (ISD) is the primary provider of IT services to UCL.

Our ambition is to be the leading IT services group in the HE sector and we are growing our team’s capability in experience/UX, agile development, security, cloud, service management and partnering. Within ISD, this post is in Faculty IT & Partnering which provides local specialist applications and systems support and IT strategic business partnering for departments across the university.

About the role

A key technical leadership role which will support the design, development and maintenance of the computing infrastructure that powers both data and computer intensive research.

From high-performance computing clusters and parallel storage to data management and automation tools, you’ll help shape and deliver the digital platforms that underpin world-class research.

About you

You’ll have extensive experience in High-Performance Computing (HPC), Data Storage or Research Systems Admin, ideally gained in an academic or research environment. Understand complex hardware platforms, monitoring performance, and ensuring system security and reliability.

You’ll combine strong technical expertise with excellent communication and collaboration skills, enabling you to work closely with researchers and technical teams to deliver effective solutions. Experience of hardware management, monitoring or research computing/storage are essential.

Experience in any of these technologies is a requirement; Scale - Lustre - hardware - HPC - Datacentres - Spectrum Protect - GitHub - Operating Systems - Linux - backup - Archive - GPU.

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 (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• 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 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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