Senior Research Infrastructure Developer

University College London

  • London
  • £54,931-64,644 per year
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 39 mins ago
About usThe UCL Centre for Advanced Research Computing (ARC) is UCL's new institute for infrastructure and innovation in digital research - the supercomputers, data-sets, software and people that make computational science and digital scholarship possible.We are an innovative hybrid: a professional services department that delivers reliable and secure infrastructure and services to UCL research groups, and a laboratory for research and innovation in the application of advanced computational and data intensive research methods, working in partnership with academics from all fields.We are a home for the research technology professionals - research software engineers, HPC systems engineers, DevOps specialists, data engineers, data scientists and data stewards - who support and collaborate in the delivery of UCL research, providing outstanding career development opportunities for these new kinds of research professionalsAbout the roleThis post designs, develops and automates such Research Computing (and related services) in collaboration with UCL researchers. A Senior Research Infrastructure Developer will be responsible for supporting, building and maintaining the computational software and infrastructure that drives UCL's research. They will support both persistent services with large numbers of users, and also bespoke solutions for specific research groups.About youA Senior Research Infrastructure Developer will be interested in building platforms in cloud environments with the intention to become an expert. Therefore, you will have experience building, deploying and supporting such infrastructure or applications in a research environment and/or industrial equivalent settings.Experience of infrastructure as code (IaC), vitalisation and container orchestration are essential. Configuration management at scale and GPU technology in virtualised environment are highly desirable.As part of this recruitment we are looking to appoint a Senior Research Infrastructure Developer with specialisations in two or more of the following technologies: Infrastructure as Code (IaC), cloud, Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, GitOps, GPU, data engineering, MLOps.What we offerAs well as the exciting opportunities this role presents we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:
  • 41 Days holiday (including 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
  • This post is eligible for
Pension Scheme
  • defined benefit scheme
  • staff contribute 6.1% and UCL will contribute 14.6%
  • Life insurance is included (3x salary)
  • Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
  • On-Site nursery
  • On-site gym
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
  • Employee assistance programme
  • Discounted medical insurance
Visit to find out more.Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and InclusionAs London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce.These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here :We will consider applications to work on a part-time, flexible and job share basis wherever possible.Our department is working towards an Athena SWAN award. We are committed to advancing gender equality within our department.Customer advert reference: B01-05153

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