Senior Research Infrastructure Developer (Geography Faculty based)

About the role

We are hiring for a Senior Research Infrastructure Developer to join our faculty it & partnering team at UCL. This role is pivotal in supporting data and computer-intensive research within the Geography department (Social and Historical Sciences faculty).

As a Senior Research Infrastructure Developer, you will provide strategic guidance, technical leadership, and foster innovation to enhance the quality of scholarly work.

Responsibilities will include the following:

designing and automating computing and data infrastructures

ensuring system security

collaborating closely with researchers to develop scalable solutions.

UCL Geography research involves developing bespoke software, very large (TB) throughput processing and securely handling commercially and GDPR-sensitive data (details about the types of research can be found on our webpages).

As part of this role, you will be involved in close collaboration with UCL’s Advanced Research Computing (ARC) department to create consistent research computing environments across UCL and drawing on significant institutional expertise. You will be provided with a creative challenge to scope out how to best maintain and develop the department research computing capabilities, working with agile development methodologies (such as Scaled Agile Framework) to deliver continual improvement.

If you're passionate about advancing research infrastructure and empowering researchers, we encourage you to apply.

In the event we get a high number of applications, we may close the advert early before the published closing date. As a minimum we will keep all adverts open for 2 weeks.

About you

As a Research Infrastructure Developer or High-Performance Computing technical professional, you have working knowledge and experience of High-Performance Computing (HPC), Linux operating systems (RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu etc.) and their maintenance, directory & authentication technologies, and TCP/IP networking, including familiarity with common Internet protocols ( SMTP, LDAP, SFTP/SSH, etc.) as well as associated client software. Additionally you are likely to hold a PhD in a subject with a computational, quantitative, or data intensive component or alternatively be able to demonstrate equivalent expertise with experience in the following:

leading complex technical projects

proficiency in operating systems, network and research software

Please refer to the job description for a full list of technical skills required to be successful in this position.

What we offer

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)

Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)

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