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20 Aug 2025
Full-Time Site Reliability Engineer
Job Description
About the Team
At EMBL-EBI, our IT & Technical Services department underpins ground-breaking research that improves human and planetary health. As part of our small but highly skilled IT Operations team, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring the availability, reliability and efficiency of services that support scientists and collaborators worldwide.
This is a hands-on, varied position where you’ll combine deep technical expertise with a service-oriented mindset. If you enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges and want your work to contribute directly to advancing science, this is the role for you!
In this role you will
- Identity & Access Management – Upgrade and standardise our authentication and authorisation infrastructure (Active Directory, Entra-ID, Redhat IDP).
- Email Systems – Support, upgrade, and maintain our mail services (Postfix, Cyrus, Roundcube, Mailman) and help plan a migration to O365.
- Core Services – Jointly develop and maintain services such as transfer services, software-defined object storage, authentication/authorisation tools, and our Request Tracker ticketing system.
- Monitoring & Reliability – Maintain and evolve distributed Check_mk monitoring while helping shape a long-term monitoring strategy.
- Automation & Orchestration – Work with Gerrit, Foreman, RPM repositories and Puppet to deploy, update and manage 3,000+ servers.
- Core Infrastructure – Maintain and improve Puppet modules (NTP, SSSD) and support new RedHat OS templates.
- Knowledge Sharing – Produce documentation and Standard Operating Procedures that empower our Service Desk and improve user experience.
What we’re looking for
- 5+ years of experience with Linux production systems (on-prem, and ideally some cloud).
- Expertise in Postfix mail systems
- Experience with orchestration/automation (Foreman/Puppet).
- Strong troubleshooting ability (tcpdump, strace, log parsing at scale).
- Experience with directory services (389 DS or OpenLDAP).
- Ability to review and guide code in Python, Bash, Puppet.
Behaviours we are looking for in our team
- Someone who thrives on responsibility, teamwork, and high standards of ethics.
Interviews: We plan to hold all interviews with selected candidates remotely via Zoom.
Apply now! Benefits and Contract Information
- Financial incentives: depending on circumstances, monthly family/marriage allowance of £278 monthly child allowance of £336 per child. Non resident allowance up to £569 per month. Annual salary review, pension scheme, death benefit, long-term care, accident-at-work and unemployment insurances
- Hybrid working arrangements
- Private medical insurance for you and your immediate family (including all prescriptions and generous dental & optical cover)
- Generous time off: 30 days annual leave per year, in addition to eight bank holidays
- Relocation package including installation grant (as applicable)
- Campus life: Free shuttle bus to and from work, on-site library, subsidised on-site gym and cafeteria, casual dress code, extensive sports and social club activities (on campus and remotely)
- Family benefits: On-site nursery, child sick leave, generous parental leave, holiday clubs on campus and monthly family and child allowances
- Contract duration: This position is a 3 year contract renewable up to 9 years
- Salary: Monthly salary starting at £3,303 – £3,695 after tax but excl. pension & insurances) + benefits (Total package will be dependent on family circumstances)
- International applicants: We recruit internationally and successful candidates are offered visa exemptions. Read more on our page for international applicants.
- Diversity and inclusion: At EMBL-EBI, we strongly believe that inclusive and diverse teams benefit from higher levels of innovation and creative thought. We encourage applications from women, LGBTQ+ and individuals from all nationalities.
- Job location: This role is based in Hinxton, near Cambridge, UK. You will be required to relocate if you are based overseas and you will receive a generous relocation package to support you.