Principal Research Infrastructure Developer (Lead Cyber Security Developer)

UCL; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 68,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

UCL ARC seeks a highly motivated cyber security expert to develop secure research infrastructure and guide staff across ARC on cyber security practices.

The role focuses on tooling, policy development, and ensuring compliance with ISO 27001 and CAF, with hybrid working including on-site minimum 20%.

Salary range £68,284 to £78,386 with London Allowance; hybrid work model supports collaboration with central teams and staff.

Qualifications

• Experience working in Linux environments.
• Background in cyber security.
• Background in research computing, HPC, or a related technical field.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate security recommendations effectively to technical staff who aren't security experts.
• Experience auditing/monitoring cyber security compliance.

Responsibilities

• Research and deploy cyber security tooling.
• Liaise with UCL's central Information Security Group to ensure ARC's infrastructure meets central requirements.
• Audit infrastructure deployments to ensure compliance with security requirements.
• Provide guidance and recommendations on security best practice to all teams across ARC.
• Develop tooling and processes to ensure new platforms comply with ISO 27001 and CAF.
• Contribute to documentation, knowledge sharing, and continuous service improvement.

Skills

Linux environments

Cyber security

Research computing/HPC

Problem-solving

Communication

Auditing cyber security compliance

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Private/public cloud

Secrets management

Job description

About us

UCL is a multi-disciplinary university with a population of over 13,000 staff and 42,000 students from 150 different countries. For more information see 'www.ucl.ac.uk/about'.

The UCL Centre for Advanced Research Computing (ARC) is UCL's institute for infrastructure and innovation in digital research. We are an innovative hybrid: a professional services department that delivers reliable and secure infrastructure and services to UCL research groups, and a laboratory for research and innovation. We are a home for the research technology professionals - research software engineers, HPC systems engineers, dev-ops specialists, data scientists and data stewards - who support and collaborate in the delivery of UCL research.

Further information about working in ARC can be found on our website https://www.ucl.ac.uk/arc.

About the role

We are seeking a highly motivated cyber security expert with experience (or a strong interest) in Research Computing/HPC environments. This post will help develop secure research infrastructure alongside providing support and guidance on cyber security best practice to staff across our Research Infrastructure, Data and Software Engineering domains. You'll play a vital role in not only shaping our policies and processes, but developing tooling to help secure our hardware and software.

Salary range is £68,284 to £78,386 (including London Allowance) depending on experience.

This role is eligible for hybrid working with a minimum of 20% on site.

Key responsibilities

• Research and deploy cyber security tooling
• Liaise with UCL's central Information Security Group to ensure ARC's infrastructure meets central requirements
• Audit infrastructure deployments to ensure compliance with security requirements
• Provide guidance and recommendations on security best practice to all teams across ARC
• Develop tooling and processes to ensure new platforms comply with ISO 27001 and CAF
• Contribute to documentation, knowledge sharing, and continuous service improvement

About you

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate the following criteria.

Essential

• Experience working in Linux environments
• Background in cyber security
• Background in research computing, HPC, or a related technical field
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate security recommendations effectively to technical members of staff who aren't security experts
• Experience auditing/monitoring cyber security compliance

Desirable

Experience with Kubernetes

• Experience with DevOps tooling (Terraform, GitHub Actions)
• Familiarity with private/public cloud platforms
• Experience with secrets management in a large organisation

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer great benefits. Visit 'https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-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.

We are committed to advancing gender equality within our department.

You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/