Job Description

Salary – £37,405 to £39,694
Hybrid 50/50 (once 6-week induction complete)

Permanent and Full-Time (37 hours per week).
We are able to consider part-time and flexible working for this opportunity, it would need to be equivalent to a minimum of 4 full days.

Preferred Location: Wallingford
Alternative Locations: Bangor, North Wales, Edinburgh or Lancaster (all locations will be equally considered)

Closing date for applications, Fri, 19th July 2024. We reserve the right to close this advert early if we find the right candidate, so we encourage you to apply early.

UKCEH is looking for an experienced IT Science Computing Engineer to join our 600-strong team, contributing to scientific discovery and generating the data, insights and solutions that researchers, businesses and governments need to solve complex environmental challenges.

Working at UKCEH is rewarding. Our science makes a real difference, enabling people and the environment to prosper, and enriching society. We are the custodians of a wealth of environmental data, collected by UKCEH and its predecessors over the course of more than 60 years.

As a valued member of our team, you’ll get:

• 27 days annual leave, rising to 29 days after five years, plus 3 days for our Christmas closure
• 10% employer pension contribution
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave (subject to qualifying requirements)
• 24 hour, 365-day access to support with physical, mental, social, health or financial issues plus access to our trained Welfare Officers
• Flexible working opportunities

And much more…

You will be joining a small and highly effective specialist IT team, who are dedicated to ensuring UKCEH can continue and evolve their world-leading science.  We support the science by providing HPC and cloud-based systems both on-prem and cloud where applicable. As the organisation focuses on its tech stack, you’ll help identify and expand our resources to accommodate increasing demands.

Your primary focus is ongoing support of dependable science computing infrastructure.  Implementing strategies for improving efficiency, effectiveness, and adaptability in a changing environment. As well as knowledge sharing within the team.

You’ll be the main point of contact and for escalation within our IT teams and the wider organisation. We need your excellent communication and negotiation skills to problem solve, build good relationships, write accurate process documents, and your ability to provide necessary reports.  You’ll be utilising tools such as Wiki, Netbox, Service Desk Plus, and Ansible.

If you’re looking to be instrumental in achieving our strategic aims and driving improvements forward, we’re keen to hear from you!  Tasks could include developing Ansible modules and containers, contributing to service improvements, recommending new systems and software, and actively coordinating and participating in multiple, cross-functional initiatives.

You’ll be joining a leading independent, not-for-profit research institute that’s committed to recruiting talented people like you, progressing your career and giving you the support you need to thrive at UKCEH.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Routine maintenance – patch management, monitoring design, configuration, coding, system hardening, auditing, and coding any necessary glue tools
• Leading on Ansible automation – supporting DevOps, in implementation of policies
• Conducting monitoring and capacity planning activities – optimising resources for storage, CPU, and RAM capacity, to meet science needs
• Providing crucial support for production Linux systems across various distributions, including Redhat, Centos, Rocky, and Ubuntu
• Offering expertise in server and storage management within a complex Linux environment, utilising a range of infrastructures
• Building, configuration and administration of scientific computing technologies, encompassing HPC Linux servers, virtual machines, containers, networking, software development environments, cloud computing services (Azure, AWS), and field equipment
• Using hypervisor and container technologies such as VMware, KVM, LXC, Docker, and Kubernetes

For the role of IT Science Computing Engineer, we’re looking for somebody who has:

• A degree in an IT related subject, or relevant work experience
• Experience supporting production Linux systems across multiple distributions
• Proficiency using configuration management systems such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or Salt
• Previous experience working with public cloud technology and providers (AWS, Azure), including API public cloud and internal APIs
• Experience with container technologies, such as LXC, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Demonstrable experience with high performance computing (HPC) and experience of using monitoring software such as Zabbix
• An understanding of application infrastructures, with the ability to design solutions and diagnose arising issues
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills, able to build good working relationships, demonstrating good listening skills and the ability to steer a conversation towards finding solutions, using a collaborative and inclusive approach
• Confidence to simplify intricate issues and technologies into manageable pieces, and the ability to articulate complex concepts into understandable terms to non-IT people

If we’ve just described you, we’d love to meet. Apply now.

**Whilst we do invite applications from international candidates, we are currently unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position.

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Job Categories: Equal Opportunities. Job Types: Full-Time. Salaries: 20,000 - 40,000.

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