Senior System Administrator

4 weeks ago


Midlothian, United Kingdom The University of Edinburgh Full time
Job Title: Senior System Administrator

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior System Administrator to join our Technical Operations team at The University of Edinburgh. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for the management of our infrastructure level services, ensuring the smooth running of our income-generating services.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Provide expert administration of key EDINA systems, including Gitlab, Puppet, Prometheus/Alertmanager, Elasticsearch, Sentry, Grafana, Log shipping, Kubernetes, Postgres, VPN, and New Relic.
  • Support and maintain EDINA IT infrastructure to ensure day-to-day smooth running, with minimal downtime of EDINA's services.
  • Develop and maintain appropriate measurement, quality control, and management processes to maintain service levels consistently.
  • Maintain staff device inventory, ensuring alignment with information security requirements.
Requirements:
  • Considerable experience of managing key systems used by EDINA to deliver service resilience.
  • Good people skills, able to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Strong technical skills, ideally with experience of cloud service delivery.
  • Knowledge of best practice cluster management.
What We Offer:
  • A competitive salary of £49,250 - £60,321 per annum.
  • A senior role in EDINA's Technical Operations team, with responsibility for managing infrastructure level components of EDINA's services.
  • Generous annual leave allowance of 40 days per year, inclusive of festive closure days.
  • Highly competitive defined-benefit pension scheme with a substantial employer contribution.
  • A range of flexible working options to help prioritize work/life balance.
  • A day of paid leave annually for your chosen volunteering activity.
  • Access to excellent online learning and a Staff Scholarship fund.

The University of Edinburgh is committed to advancing gender equality, diversity, and inclusion. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions. On this occasion, we will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.



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