Systems Manager

<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p></p><div>Systems Manager</div><br> <div>Permanent post on Grade 7: &#163;36,024 - &#163;44,263 per annum&#160;&#160;(&#163;45,585 - &#163;48,350 discretionary rate)</div><br> <div>&#160;</div><br> <div>We are looking for a highly motivated and creative individual to join the Department of Primary Care Health Sciences to help manage our specialist research environments supporting our academic community.</div><br> <div>You will be supporting a range of services including Windows &amp; Linux systems and services, VMWare vSphere and VSAN, and a range of backup and replication services following devops approach to deployments where appropriate.&#160; We are looking to develop our services with increased integration, making use of PowerShell and Bash to automate service provision across our ORCHID research platform, along with scalable deployment solutions for commonly used research platforms (such as R, Python, Jupyter Notebooks), as well as exploring opportunities for extending out to cloud environments.</div><br> <div>&#160;</div><br> <div>The research we undertake uses healthcare data so an eye on security is a must and you will need to bring your technical expertise to advise and construct systems and services that support the academic requirement while maintaining the correct level of security and protection for our information assets.</div><br> <div>&#160;</div><br> <div>We are also looking to deploy further administrative services to support the IT team in the department, including an improved Asset Management tool and centralised research compute facilities.&#160; You would be involved in these developments with the opportunity to use your skills and talent to help shape our expanding service portfolio.</div><br> <div>&#160;</div><br> <div>We offer a friendly and supportive work environment, with options for career progression and development, and a supply of tea and coffee.&#160; As part of the Medical Science division, you will be joining not only the PHC IT Team, but the MSD IT Team and the wider community of IT Professionals across the University of Oxford, with the opportunity for networking across the professional service and the option to attend the annual IT conference, suppliers exhibition and much more.</div><br> <div>The post is available full time on a permanent basis however we are able to be flexible about how this would work, including flexible patterns of hours (e,g, five days over four with long hours) or remote/on-site working (with an expectation of 2 days on site).</div><br> <div>You&#8217;ll also be entitled to 30 days annual leave plus bank holiday, pension scheme, salary sacrifice scheme for childcare alongside highly-rated University nurseries, as well as a huge range of discounts across a variety of providers on anything from parking at the airport to Dell laptops. See https://www.jobs.ox.ac.uk/benefits</div><br> <div>&#160;</div><br> <div>This is a re-advertisement of the role, if you have previously applied for this role there is no need to re-apply.</div><br> <div>For any informal questions about the role please contact john.briggs@phc.ox.ac.uk.</div><br> <div>&#160;</div><br> <div>&#8220;Committed to equality and valuing diversity&#8221;</div><br> <div>&#160;<br> <br>&#160;</div><br> <div>The closing date for applications is <strong>noon on 8 November 2023</strong></div><br> <div>&#160;</div><br> <div>&#160;</div> </div>