Job Description

Ref Number

B01-05199

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

18-Oct-2025

About us

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UCL is a world-leading teaching and research university, often ranked in the top ten in the world with an annual turnover of well over 1 billion. Part of UCL's vision is to take on the hardest global challenges. The Information Services Division (ISD) is the primary provider of IT services to UCL.



We support and enhance learning, teaching, research and administrative processes by providing information- and technologyrelated services to over 50,000 staff and students of UCL and associated institutions. Our ambition is to be the leading IT services group in the HE sector and we are growing our team's capability in experience/UX, agile development, security, cloud, service management and partnering.



We are modernising our technology foundations, digitising the processes of the university to transform experience for students and staff, and partnering across the university to drive differentiation in UCL education and research. Within ISD, this post is in Faculty IT & Partnering which provides local specialist applications and systems support and IT strategic business partnering for departments across the university.

About the role

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A Senior Research Infrastructure Developer will be responsible for designing, building and maintaining the computational software and infrastructure that drives UCL's research. You will also help lead and deliver the services and systems which make data and compute-intensive research possible, support the discovery and innovation of tools, practices and systems



They will build both persistent services with large numbers of users, and bespoke solutions for specific research groups.

About you

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We are looking for an HPC/Storage infrastructure or systems admin with experience in managing, monitoring, and running hardware-based platforms in on-premises data centres.



Experience of hardware management, monitoring or research computing/storage are essential. Experience of parallel storage and backup is highly desirable.



You should have experience in one or more of these; HPC - GPFS / Spectrum Scale - Lustre - hardware - Servers - Datacentres - Spectrum Protect - GitHub - Operating Systems - Linux - backup - Archive - GPU

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 (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days) Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE) Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan Immigration loan Relocation scheme for certain posts On-Site nursery On-site gym Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service 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.