IT Infrastructure Manager
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Job purpose
Reporting to the Computing Support Manager, you will take a leading role in managing and maintaining the school’s IT Infrastructure, which is essential for the research, teaching and professional services of Psychology and Neuroscience. Your primary responsibility will be to collaborate with the Computing Support Manager, to manage and maintain the specialised core IT infrastructure, as well as provide user support and system development.
Main duties & responsibilities
- Lead in evaluating and enhancing the effectiveness of the School’s IT Infrastructure, maximising service quality, efficiency and continuity.
- Lead the management of infrastructure, data centres and server hardware across the product lifecycle.
- Provide and manage core Linux and Microsoft Windows systems to ensure vital DNS, directory, desktop, and storage services remain available, secure and patched.
- Lead the management of web services and Content Management Systems running Apache, PHP, Tomcat, MySQL/MariaDB, Python.
- Investigate new and emerging technologies through innovative design of complex systems and usage of specialist IT equipment for use in Psychology and Neuroscience teaching and research, to deliver strategic and operational benefits. Manage the allocated portion of the IT budget, ensuring an effective split between end-user and infrastructure management, and regularly present findings and budget impacts at the board level to align with organizational strategy and support informed decision-making."
- Manage the allocated portion of the IT budget, ensuring an effective split between end-user and infrastructure management. Collaborate with the Computing Support Manager to contribute to the Computing Support Department's budget from an infrastructure perspective, including costing for upgrades, maintenance, and other related expenses. Work closely to ensure that infrastructure investments align with departmental needs and strategic priorities, optimizing resource allocation and financial planning.
- Oversee the management and development of support staff, fostering a culture of excellence through the implementation of best practices, strategic talent development initiatives, and the execution of annual performance reviews
- Lead end-to-end project management with a high degree of autonomy, ensuring successful project delivery from inception to completion. Oversee the creation of comprehensive documentation and provide training to colleagues as needed to support project objectives and knowledge transfer
- Partner with the University Central IT to design and implement advanced IT security policies, ensuring alignment with institutional standards and enhancing the overall cybersecurity framework
Knowledge and qualifications
Essential
- Scottish Credit and Qualification Framework Level 9 (Ordinary Degree, Scottish Vocational Qualification level 4), or equivalent experience of personal development in a similar role or related role.
- Ability to undertake the duties associated with this level of post A3 Comprehensive, expert current knowledge of IT standards, systems, and provision to support delivery of research and teaching.
Desirable
- Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate certification is highly desirable, with a strong emphasis on proficiency in managing local Active Directory environments.
- Proficiency in macOS management with JAMF certification is highly desirable.
- Experience of working in a Higher Education environment.
Skills
Essential
- Skills in LAMP platforms (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).
- Extensive experience in Linux/Unix administration, including user management (NIS Domain), monitoring, optimizing system performance, system updates, backups (ZFS) and network storage (NFS).
- Skill in managing and maintaining networking services (DNS, DHCP), which includes diagnosing and troubleshooting network problems.
- Expertise in Microsoft on prem Active Directory and Window Server 2019 and above.
- Ability to take a problem/project from conception to completion, interpreting and integrating technical and user needs appropriately.
- Ability to develop innovative solutions and to influence others to adopt them.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication (oral and written) skills.
- Demonstrable people/time/budget/project management skills of an appropriate level.
- Ability to work effectively with a high level of independence but also within a team.
- Strong analytical and innovative problem-solving skills.
- Ability to multitask successfully in a busy role with competing demands
- Ability to work flexibly and adapt to changing environments.
- Ability to collaborate with teams within our organisation (e.g Information Services Security Team and Network Infrastructure Team)
Desirable
- Understanding of cybersecurity principles to protect data and computational resources.
- Compliance with data privacy regulations and institutional IT policies. D3 Ability to implement and maintain secure access protocols.
- Support for software installations, updates, and troubleshooting. D5 Ability to provide technical support to faculty and students.
- Conducting training sessions on best practices for using the computing grid.
- Expertise in managing and maintaining high-performance computing (HPC) systems, Rocks Clusters or similar.
- Skills in Enterprise server software and storage technologies such as, Isilon, iDrac, Microsoft failover clusters and VMware VCenter.
- Proficiency in virtualisation and containerisation technologies (e.g., Docker, singularity).
Experience
Essential
- Experience in leading a highly specialised infrastructure team.
- Substantial experience in server management and systems administration in a heterogeneous environment with a mix of Linux, Unix and MS Windows server technologies providing general services, such as backup, mail, DNS, DHCP, printing and user accounts.
- Installation and administration of enterprise level server hardware and software. Including, server management, virtualisation, and storage management.
- Significant experience of a higher-level programming or scripting language such as Shell Script, Python or PowerShell.
- Experience managing projects in a complex multidisciplinary organisation.
- Experience of taking responsibility for actions that can have considerable impact on the user community.
- Experience of negotiating with colleagues.
Desirable
- Supporting Research in an academic environment.
- Supporting MySQL/MariaDB relational database servers.
- Security with network penetration testing, diagnosis, and patching.
- Experience of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), Caldecott and the processing of personal and medical data.
- Knowledge of libraries needed for GPU clusters and distributed computing frameworks
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The development will transform our teaching, learning and research spaces. It will allow us to bring together the best minds of today and tomorrow within world-class interdisciplinary research spaces that offer flexibility and stimulate collaboration, and modern study spaces that will combine study and social learning space with technology enabled teaching.
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How to apply
Full details of the role and how to apply can be found by visiting our website:
The closing date for applications is Thursday 28th November 2024.
For more information about the infrastructure and the scope of the job or for informal enquiries, please contact Raymond Elma, Raymond.Elma@glasgow.ac.uk
Terms & Conditions
Salary will be Grade 8, £49,250 - £56,921 per annum.
This post is full time and open ended (permanent). Relocation assistance will be provided where appropriate.
The University of Glasgow has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK. If you require a Skilled Worker visa to work in the UK, you will be required to meet the eligibility requirements of the visa route to be assigned a Certificate of Sponsorship.
Please note that this post may be eligible to be sponsored under the Skilled Worker visa route if tradeable points can be used under the Skilled Worker visa rules.
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As a valued member of our team, you can expect:
A warm welcoming and engaging organisational culture, where your talents are developed and nurtured, and success is celebrated and shared.
An excellent employment package with generous terms and conditions including 41 days of leave for full time staff, pension - pensions handbook https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/payandpensions/pensions/, benefits and discount packages.
A flexible approach to working.
A commitment to support your health and wellbeing, including a free 6-month UofG Sport membership for all new staff joining the University https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/staff/healthwellbeing/.
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