Senior System Administrator

TN United Kingdom; Scotland; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits at a forward-thinking institution, where you will join a dynamic Technical Operations team. This role offers the chance to manage critical infrastructure services, ensuring smooth operations and service resilience. With a focus on innovative cloud service delivery, you will leverage your technical expertise to support various systems, including Gitlab and Kubernetes. Enjoy a competitive salary, generous annual leave, and a commitment to work-life balance in a hybrid working environment. If you are passionate about technology and eager to make an impact, this is the perfect role for you.

Benefits

Generous annual leave allowance

Defined-benefit pension scheme

Flexible working options

Paid leave for volunteering

Access to online learning

Staff Scholarship fund

Qualifications

• Experience managing key systems for service resilience.
• Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Administer key EDINA systems and maintain IT infrastructure.
• Develop quality control processes to maintain service levels.

Skills

Cloud Service Delivery

Communication Skills

System Management

Technical Expertise

Education

Relevant Degree or Equivalent Experience

Tools

Gitlab

Puppet

Prometheus/Alertmanager

Elasticsearch

Sentry

Grafana

Kubernetes

Postgres

VPN

New Relic

Job description

An exciting opportunity to join EDINA’s Technical Operations section with responsibility for the management of EDINA’s infrastructure level services. This is a Grade 8, full-time (35 hours per week), open-ended (permanent) position based in central Edinburgh. The role is hybrid, you will report to the Head of Technical Operations and will be on campus a minimum of one day per week.

What the job involves:

• Providing expert administration of a number of key EDINA systems including Gitlab, Puppet, Prometheus/Alertmanager, Elasticsearch, Sentry, Grafana, Log shipping, Kubernetes, Postgres, VPN, New Relic;
• Support and maintain EDINA IT infrastructure to ensure day-to-day smooth running, with minimal downtime of EDINA’s income-generating services;
• Develop and maintain appropriate measurement, quality control and management processes to maintain service levels consistently;
• Maintaining staff device inventory ensuring alignment with information security requirements.

A bit about you:

• You will have considerable experience of managing key systems used by EDINA to deliver service resilience;
• You will have good people skills able to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences;
• You will be strongly technical, ideally with experience of cloud service delivery;
• You will have knowledge of best practice cluster management.

Application procedure:

What we can offer you:

• A competitive salary of UE08 £49,250 - £60,321 per annum.
• A senior role in EDINA’s Technical Operations team with responsibility for managing the infrastructure level components of EDINA’s services including Puppet, Kubernetes, Gitlab, New Relic.
• Generous annual leave allowance of 40 days per year (inclusive of festive closure days).
• Highly competitive defined-benefit pension scheme with a substantial employer contribution.
• A range of flexible working options to help prioritise work/life balance.
• A day of paid leave annually for your chosen volunteering activity.
• Access to excellent online learning and a Staff Scholarship fund.
• Varied and more.

Championing equality, diversity and inclusion

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

Key dates to note:

The closing date is 23rd October 2024.

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Interviews will be held In-person week commencing 4th of November.