Systems Administrator

**Systems Administrator**
**Grade UE07 - £35,333 - £42,155 per annum**
**School of GeoSciences, College of Science and Engineering**
**Open ended - Full Time 35 hours per week**

**The Opportunity**:
This is a key role, primarily focused on building and ensuring the service continuity and resilience of our on-premise Linux cluster which includes Ceph storage, an OpenNebula virtual machine cluster, compute servers, web servers, and a Linux remote desktop service. It will involve close cooperation with colleagues both inside the School and in other Schools and the University’s Information Services.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Experience of administering Linux / Unix based operating systems
- Experience of configuration management systems
- Programming skills in one or more scripting languages - e.g. Python, Perl and shell scripts
- Programming skills in compiled languages such as C or Fortran would be useful
- Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills
- Calm and organised under pressure
- Experienced in change and incident management
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely with staff and students with widely varied levels of technical expertise in computing

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**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme **, **staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Click to access our **staff benefits page **(opens new browser tab) for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

If successful you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work **webpages **.

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.

The School of GeoSciences explores the factors and forces that shape our world. The School aims to understand the world through fundamental curiosity-driven research and to support prescient decision-making at individual to global scales. We undertake world-leading research; offer new ways of understanding natural and social drivers of change; provide inter-and trans-disciplinary solutions; and work in partnership to improve livelihoods and explore ways to manage the environment that are both sustainable and socially equitable.

With over 500 academics, researchers and research students, we are the largest and most successful interdisciplinary grouping of geoscientists and geographers in the UK. Research activity is coordinated within three main Research Institutes - Global Change, Earth and Planetary Science, and Geography and the Lived Environment - and within smaller research groupings that reach across and beyond the School.

The School holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to gender equality in higher education. Our aim is to recognise and value diversity in our staff and students, and to support flexible and family-friendly working.