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11318 - Senior System Administrator

Job details
Posting date: 25 September 2024
Salary: £49,250 to £60,321 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 23 October 2024
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Remote working: Hybrid - work remotely up to 4 days per week
Company: University of Edinburgh
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 11318

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Summary

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.

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