Research Platforms Manager

The Research Platforms Manager will be using specialist expertise in hardware, networking, virtualisation, git workflows, and Linux administration as part of a progressive team, to provide a high quality service to Researchers performing world-class research across the University. The team will be required to deploy, configure, maintain, test, benchmark and document use of a range of modern high-performance hardware., The Research Platforms Manager role is responsible for assigning and overseeing support for the underlying compute hardware and network infrastructure for the ITS Research services. This covers the 12000+ core, 100+ GPU QM High Performance Compute cluster (see https://docs.hpc.qmul.ac.uk ), various hosted services and virtual machines. This is an excellent opportunity to have a positive impact on a diverse range of world-class research.

A background in networking and administering a physical server installation in a datacentre will be essential.

You will be able to demonstrable experience of deploying and administering Linux servers and storage systems, along with managing firmware updates for peripherals and out-of-band management. Have Experience of configuration management using Puppet and Git, and mass deployment tools such as xCAT

You will have good understanding of network design, switch configuration and troubleshooting. Gathering monitoring data, logs and metrics from a range of datacentre hardware, including environmental monitoring.

You will have experience of making changes to live systems using best practice methods, and proactive monitoring of systems to ensure good uptime. Making recommendations on hardware purchases and contributing to tender proposals

You will also line management of a junior team member experience.

Additional skills will be learned on the job, with a lot of hands-on exposure to a range of hardware, making this an exciting opening for a skilled candidate wishing to work in the stimulating area of High Performance Computing

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we've fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it's simply 'the right thing to do' but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days' leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, campus facilities and flexible working arrangements.

Queen Mary's commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.
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