Systems Administrator (Linux Services)

Digital Transformation is at the heart of our recently released 10-year strategy, and we have the ambition to expand our technology capabilities, to enable innovation, and deliver better services for our students and staff. This is an exciting time in Digital Services as we transform with pace and agility, to help the University achieve its vision to provide inspiring education and research, working in partnership with our communities to become a truly inclusive university.

There is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Systems Administrator to join our Research Computing Services team, where you will be responsible for ensuring consistent availability, efficient and secure operation of Linux services used by the research community within the University.

The University’s Research Computing Services team manages an estate of 900 servers, with 48000 CPU cores and 10PB of data across four HPC systems, including the DiRAC 2 and 3 National HPC services, a campus HPC service and a novel NVIDIA/ARM based GPU cluster. Our researchers also make use of EPSRC Tier2 HPC facilities (HPC Midlands+ and the Cambridge Service for Data Driven Discovery), CEDA/JASMIN, ARCHER and DiRAC.

In addition to focusing on core technologies, you will actively pursue modernisation of our technology and infrastructure to use next generation technologies. The role and the team are continually evolving, hence this role would ideally suit an individual who can adapt to change. As a reward, you will have the opportunity to improve your career prospects as well as further expand your skills, knowledge and experience.

We are looking for someone with experience in the use and administration of Linux systems, ideally within a research or teaching environment. You must have knowledge in the components of a modern Linux system and demonstrate an ability and willingness to learn and expand your skills and knowledge as required. 

Strong scripting and programming skills are essential as the role requires automation of system administration tasks and working with system users to get their codes running efficiently on our local and national High Performance Computing systems.

Experience in the use of High Performance Computing systems and in the development or running of scientific software on is highly desirable. This role would suit someone with user experience of HPC or research computing wanting to further develop their skills in the support of HPC systems and users.

Informal enquiries are welcomed and should be directed to Liam Gretton on [email protected]

Interviews are anticipated to take place during the week commencing 16 September 2024.

The University of Leicester has been changing the world, and changing people’s lives, for 100 years. When you join us, you’ll become part of a community of Citizens of Change, which includes not only our staff and our current students but also thousands of Leicester graduates around the world.

As a diverse and forward-thinking employer, we embed the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion into everything we do. That includes not just our core missions of teaching and research, but also our support for staff, students and our local community through our values of Inspiring, Impactful and Inclusive.

We’re committed to the wellbeing of all our staff and to the sustainability of our environment, on our campus and beyond. We offer a competitive salary package, excellent pension scheme and a generous annual leave allowance, along with opportunities to develop your career in a supportive and collaborative environment.