Digital Preservation Specialist

3 days ago


Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Digital Preservation Coalition Full time
Vacancy for Systems Administrator at the University of Oxford

Estimated Salary: £45,000 - £60,000 per annum.

We are seeking a skilled Digital Preservation Specialist to join our team in the Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services Department. As a key member of our established systems team, you will play a crucial role in delivering new and enhanced digital services supporting library staff, readers, academics, and the wider public.

You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and administering the libraries' IT infrastructure. Our main operating systems are Red Hat and Ubuntu run in a VMware virtualised environment with service provision increasingly delivered through a hybrid of in-house/cloud infrastructure. This offers an opportunity to work with storage on a multi-petabyte scale as we grow our digital preservation capabilities.

To succeed in this role, you will require experience as a system administrator familiar with operating Linux servers in a virtualised environment. You will also need to be happy supporting projects, both business and research-led, as well as undertaking day-to-day administration tasks including server installation and configuration, security patching, performance monitoring, backups, etc.

This is a full-time role on a 3-year fixed term contract.



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