Senior Research Infrastructure Developer

London, ENG, GB, United Kingdom

Job Description

Ref Number


B01-05153

Professional Expertise


IT and Digital

Department


Vice-President (Operations) (B01)

Location


London

Working Pattern


Full time

Salary


54,931-64,644

Contract Type


Permanent

Working Type


Hybrid

Available for Secondment


No

Closing Date


07-Sep-2025

About us


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The UCL Centre for Advanced Research Computing (ARC) is UCL's new institute for infrastructure and innovation in digital research - the supercomputers, datasets, 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, dev-ops 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 professionals


About the role


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One of the challenges of providing IT infrastructure for researchers is the necessity of flexibility - the traditional model of IT services results in services lagging (sometimes years) behind researcher needs and due to the more general requirements of large groups of users fails to take into account the individual infrastructure and applications requirements of research projects or groups.



This 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 you


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A 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. You will be a strong advocate for "building it right" - software defined, in version control etc. As part of this role there is an opportunity for growth - to obtain advancement by the Research Infrastructure Developer steering the focus to include training, line management, research or further specialisation in HPC/Cloud technologies.



Experience of infrastructure as code (IaC), virtualization 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 offer


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As 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 USS 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 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more.


Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion


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As 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 : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/



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.

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  • Job Id
    JD3591123
  • Industry
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  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
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  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    London, ENG, GB, United Kingdom
  • Education
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