Senior System Administrator
Job Description
Job Info
Job Identification: 11318
Locations: Argyle House, Edinburgh, EH3 9DR, GB (Hybrid working)
Organization: Edinburgh University Group
Department: Operations
Apply Before: 03/01/2025, 23:59
Health and Safety Requirements: No key hazards identified for this post
Criminal Record Check: No criminal record check required
Contract Type: Open Ended
Job Schedule: Full time
Grade: UE08
Number of Openings: 1
Job Function: IT
Job Description
An exciting opportunity to join EDINA’s Technical Operations section with responsibility for the management of EDINA’s infrastructure level services. This is a Grade UE08, full-time, open-ended position based in central Edinburgh. The role is hybrid, you will report to the Head of Technical Operations and will be on campus a minimum of one day per week.
What we can offer you:
A competitive salary of £49,250 – £60,321 per annum.
A senior role in EDINA’s Technical Operations team with responsibility for managing the infrastructure level components of EDINA’s services including Puppet, Kubernetes, Gitlab, New Relic.
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 prioritise work/life balance.
A day of paid leave annually for your chosen volunteering activity.
Access to excellent online learning and a Staff Scholarship fund.
Varied staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, support for staff wellbeing and more.
Use our reward calculator to find out the total value of the pay and benefits for this role.
What the job involves:
Providing expert administration of a number of key EDINA systems including Linux VMs, Gitlab, Puppet, Prometheus/Alert manager, Elasticsearch, Sentry, Grafana, Log shipping, Kubernetes, Postgres, VPN, New Relic.
Support and maintain EDINA IT infrastructure to ensure day-to-day smooth running, with minimal downtime of EDINA’s income-generating services.
Develop and maintain appropriate measurement, quality control and management processes to maintain service levels consistently.
Maintaining staff device inventory ensuring alignment with information security requirements.
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A bit about you:
You will have considerable experience of managing key systems used by EDINA to deliver service resilience.
You will have good people skills able to communicate with technical and non- technical audiences.
You will be strongly technical, ideally with experience of cloud service delivery.
You will have knowledge of best practice cluster management.
You will be proactive in finding needs and solutions for strengthening and securing our technical infrastructure.
Application procedure:
We welcome informal enquiries about the role – to find out more please email Alexander Brelsfoard (Head of Technical Operations) at
The University is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. If you have the right skills for the job, we want to hear from you. We encourage applications from the right candidates regardless of age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief or race.
Prior to any employment commencing candidates will be required to evidence Right to Work in the UK.
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.
To apply, upload a CV and cover letter before midnight on 3rd January 2025.
Interviews will be held in-person in January 2025.
About Us
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.
About the Team
EDINA are specialists in developing and delivering digital products including large-scale online services, mobile apps and digital tools for education. Our expertise includes geospatial and satellite data, computational learning, text and data mining, e-preservation and machine learning.
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Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £49,250.00-£60,321.00 per year
Work Location: In person
