Senior Research Infrastructure Developer

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading research institute in London seeks a Senior Research Software Engineer to design and automate cloud infrastructure using modern tools. The role involves collaboration across various teams and offers opportunities for research, innovation, and teaching. Ideal candidates will have a PhD or equivalent experience, along with strong skills in Kubernetes, Docker, and DevOps practices. The position comes with excellent benefits, including a competitive salary and generous holiday allowance.

Benefits

41 Days holiday

Pension Scheme

Life insurance

Cycle to work scheme

On-site gym

Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay

Qualifications

• Practical knowledge of operating systems and TCP/IP networking.
• Experience in complex technical projects, either technically or managerially.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and automate private-cloud infrastructure.
• Work with teams to architect computing environments for research.

Skills

Kubernetes

Docker

DevOps

Infrastructure as Code

Linux

Education

PhD Degree

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Ansible

Job description

About the role

ARC roles can be both research roles, contributing to the scholarly life of the university, carrying out research and teaching, and professional service roles, delivering shared capabilities and following professional best practice.

You will be part of ARC’s community of staff scientists and research technology professionals, both delivering the services and systems which make data and compute-intensive research possible, and discovering and innovating new tools, practices, and systems in this field.

Our positioning as a hybrid of a research institute and service centre means these activities will be synergistic. This could mean building on your background to remain close to the research life of one or more of the academic disciplines we collaborate with or engaging closely with the technology professional communities related to a platform, tool, or language that you focus on. You will work with your management to define a portfolio of responsibilities, a mixture of service delivery, research, innovation, and teaching activities according to your own preferences and skills, and appropriate to your level of seniority.

This role will help 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. You'll also work closely with other teams across ARC to help architect computing environments for a wide variety of research purposes.

A brilliant all-round role, which will suit passionate individuals who enjoy consistent challenges and have the ability to work at a 'best in class' level.

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 (especially Harvester/Rancher)

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.
• Demonstrable understanding of at least one area of specialism within digital research infrastructures.
• Experience with the Linux command line shell.
• Automation of processes with appropriate versionable languages.
• Experience authoring technical documents to a high standard.
• 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 interested? Then please reach out to me for further information about the role and UCL!

Salary range for grade 8 Senior Research Software Engineer is £51,000 to £65,000, including London Allowance depending on experience. USS pension scheme offers staff contributions and UCL will contribute.

The job description and person specification for this post can be downloaded from the link at the bottom of this page.

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 holidays, and 6 closure days)
• This post is eligible for Pension Scheme with defined benefits; staff contribute and UCL will contribute. Life insurance is included (3x salary).
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay