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You’ll plan and execute a comprehensive transformation, improving network design, system resilience, and data security. From implementing robust backup solutions to enhancing virtualisation and directory services, your work will be pivotal in enabling cutting-edge research and teaching. Alongside these technical challenges, you’ll document your progress, ensuring a smooth handover and long-term sustainability. We’re looking for someone with a proven track record of delivering complex IT projects and a deep understanding of Linux, alongside Windows and Mac systems. Your real-world expertise with Linux servers and clients, scripting, and clustered environments will be a cornerstone of success in this role. If you’re also familiar with networking (DNS, DHCP, VLANs), Active Directory, and security tools, even better. This is your chance to work in a supportive, forward-thinking team and apply your skills where they’ll truly make a difference. This is a new role, and training will be given on unfamiliar systems or applications. For an informal discussion about this post, please contact simon.eustice@biology.ox.ac.uk. This is a fixed-term role available immediately. The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on Wednesday 5 February 2025, interviews will be held on 18 February 2025. Applications for this vacancy are to be made online via our e-recruitment system, and you will be required to upload a supporting statement and CV as part of your online application. """ . . "Format"@en . . "Tubney Panthera Buildings" . "Document" . "email"@en . . . . . . . . . "text/html" . """Job description Post IT Project Engineer Department Department of Biology Division Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division (MPLS) Location Biology and affiliated departments, Oxford with hybrid working to be agreed in line with departmental policy. Grade and salary Grade 7: £38,674 - £46,913 per annum Hours Full time or part time Contract type Fixed term (18 months) Reporting to IT Manager, Biology Application deadline 12 noon on Wednesday 5 February 2025 Vacancy reference 177430 Recruitment contacts HR: recruitment@biology.ox.ac.uk Additional information Secondments considered. The role This secondment (or fixed-term contract) opportunity is ideally suited to a strongly technical, methodical IT Project Engineer keen to take on a new challenge. The post can be full or part time, with a working pattern agreed to suit the work-life balance of the appointee. Joining Biology’s IT Management team, you will be responsible for mapping the full extent of IT/Digital provision in an affiliated Department, then planning and executing a major digital upgrade and transformation project. Your work will be overseen and guided by the IT Manager for the Department of Biology, and other senior academics. As a substantive member of the Biology IT team, your skills will potentially be utilised elsewhere in the Biology estate as appropriate. Responsibilities 1. Discovery and planning • Carry out a full audit of a Biology affiliated department. This work is already underway but will need completing. To include: o Full mapping of the wired and wireless networks including all segregated areas. o o o o o o Full asset discovery exercise (this will mainly be a manual task but may be helped with asset discovery tools) including Windows, Mac and Linux servers and computers and all devices used in laboratories and in fieldwork. Baseline security assessment. Detailed security assessment including firewalls, antivirus software, group policies, management of security for laptops and transmission of data from the field, security of back-ups, disaster recovery preparedness, and how access to data is controlled. Review of Active Directory to establish whether it remains fit-for-purpose. Mapping of all software and platforms provided and maintained by the Department. Listing all digital services required by the Department, including AV, digital accessibility support and digital communications. • Raise any security-critical or business-critical issues with the Biology IT Manager and offer interim or long-term solutions. • Working with the Biology IT Management team, map the digital requirements of the Department and highlight areas where digital provision could be improved to support research and teaching. • Learn about the Biology IT and other MPLS infrastructures to identify where good practice could be shared with the project department and use your own experience to suggest solutions. • Working with the Biology IT Management team, create a detailed plan of work to upgrade and transform the digital landscape and digital service provision within an affiliated department. 2. Upgrade and transformation project • Carry out the extensive and highly technical work required to methodically upgrade and transform the digital provision. • Manage the multiple workstreams within the project effectively, revising the plan when appropriate and identifying clear objectives. • Prepare written project reports for Departmental leadership as required; prepare regular technical updates for the 1st/2nd line support team. • Attend regular meetings with the Biology IT staff, keeping them updated on your progress and using their expertise to collectively troubleshoot issues as they arise. • Check and test your work regularly, ensuring user feedback is incorporated and that the result aligns with user requirements. • Create detailed technical documentation throughout the project, ensuring that others can follow your work and take over in your absence. 3. Technical work The project will include the following technical aspects: o Creating and maintaining Windows, Mac and Linux servers and end-user devices. o Licencing and patching. o Scripting and automation tools for Windows, Mac and Linux. o Creation and maintenance of physical and virtual servers, and use of VMWare. o Design and improvement of an extensive, resilient and secure network (requires experience with DNS, DHCP, VLAN, switch configuration, and policy creation). o Replacement of existing client-server directory service. o Improvement of firewalls and antivirus protection. o Improvement of system and data security (group policies, MFA, VPN). o In conjunction with the Biology IT Management team, plan comprehensive back-up solutions including use of air gapped back up, swift data recovery, and disaster recovery preparedness. o Wi-Fi network security and maintenance. o Consideration of AV and conferencing systems, telephony, printers/scanners. o Maintenance of Department-hosted platforms and software required by staff (e.g. building management software, Dragon Naturally Speaking). 4. Other duties • Maintain your own technical knowledge and ensure awareness of advances in the field. • Maintain good working relationships with your colleagues and contribute towards a safe, inclusive working environment for all. • Embed the principles of mutual respect, equality, diversity, inclusivity and sustainability in all aspects of your work; undertake training as and when asked to do so. Selection criteria Essential selection criteria • Outstanding attention to detail and proven ability to produce accurate, high quality technical solutions to suit the customer’s needs. • Demonstrable track record of planning and executing technical projects to successful completion. • Ability to work independently, organise and manage own workload effectively and to work within parameters (and towards priorities) set by more senior staff. • Advanced Linux client and server real-world knowledge. • Excellent technical reporting and documentation skills. • Experience of 3rd line IT engineering that is equivalent to a graduate degree, ideally in a higher education setting. • Experience of network maintenance and design including Virtualisation Platforms, Active Directory, Windows Servers, Linux Servers, firewalls, VLAN, DHCP, DNS. • Experience of hardware/software support (Windows, Macs, Linux), familiarity with MS Office 365 tools and applications, familiarity with specialist software and hardware such as those required by research laboratory equipment. • Experience of managing software licensing and management of patching. • Demonstrable ability to keep updated with developments in the field and update own knowledge. • Excellent understanding of the need to balance resilience, security and usability of IT and the ability to judge when a situation or request presents a security- or business-critical concern. Desirable selection criteria • CCNA/CCNP or equivalent qualification or experience • Experience of iSCSI – especially in a clustered Linux environment • Experience of managing storage systems and associated backup methodologies. Pre-employment screening Standard checks If you are offered the post, the offer will be subject to standard pre-employment checks. You will be asked to provide proof of your right-to-work in the UK; proof of your identity; and (if we haven’t done so already) we will contact the referees you have nominated. If you have previously worked for the University, we will also verify key information such as your dates of employment and reason for leaving your previous role with the department/unit where you worked. You will also be asked to complete a health declaration so that you can tell us about any health conditions or disabilities for which you may need us to make appropriate adjustments. Please read the candidate notes on the University’s pre-employment screening procedures at: https://www.jobs.ox.ac.uk/pre-employment-checks If you are offered the post, the offer will be subject to standard pre-employment checks. You will be asked to provide proof of your right-to-work in the UK; proof of your identity; and (if we haven’t done so already) we will contact the referees you have nominated. You will also be asked to complete a health declaration so that you can tell us about any health conditions or disabilities for which you may need us to make appropriate adjustments. Please read the candidate notes on the University’s pre-employment screening procedures at: https://www.jobs.ox.ac.uk/pre-employment-checks Hazard-specific / Safety-critical duties This job includes hazards or safety-critical activities. If you are offered the post, you will be asked to complete a health questionnaire which will be assessed by our Occupational Health Service, and the offer of employment will be subject a successful outcome of this assessment. The hazards or safety-critical duties involved are as follows: • Lone Working About the University of Oxford Welcome to the University of Oxford. We aim to lead the world in research and education for the benefit of society both in the UK and globally. Oxford’s researchers engage with academic, commercial and cultural partners across the world to stimulate high-quality research and enable innovation through a broad range of social, policy and economic impacts. We believe our strengths lie both in empowering individuals and teams to address fundamental questions of global significance, while providing all our staff with a welcoming and inclusive workplace that enables everyone to develop and do their best work. 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This is a unique opportunity to take on new challenges with a team that will, by sometime in 2025, provide IT support for the largest building in the University’s science area. This role involves working with a strong team to provide effective technical support for our department.

 

We’re looking for a methodical and innovative IT Project Engineer to lead a significant digital upgrade within an affiliated Biology department. This is a fixed-term or secondment opportunity, perfect for someone ready to combine technical expertise with strategic problem-solving to make a lasting impact.

 

In this role, you’ll take the reins on auditing an existing IT system, from wired and wireless networks to hardware and software platforms, with a particular focus on Linux environments. You’ll plan and execute a comprehensive transformation, improving network design, system resilience, and data security. From implementing robust backup solutions to enhancing virtualisation and directory services, your work will be pivotal in enabling cutting-edge research and teaching. Alongside these technical challenges, you’ll document your progress, ensuring a smooth handover and long-term sustainability.

 

We’re looking for someone with a proven track record of delivering complex IT projects and a deep understanding of Linux, alongside Windows and Mac systems. Your real-world expertise with Linux servers and clients, scripting, and clustered environments will be a cornerstone of success in this role. If you’re also familiar with networking (DNS, DHCP, VLANs), Active Directory, and security tools, even better. This is your chance to work in a supportive, forward-thinking team and apply your skills where they’ll truly make a difference.

 

This is a new role, and training will be given on unfamiliar systems or applications. 

 

For an informal discussion about this post, please contact  simon.eustice@biology.ox.ac.uk. 

 

This is a fixed-term role available immediately. 

 

The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on Wednesday 5 February 2025, interviews will be held on 18 February 2025. Applications for this vacancy are to be made online via our e-recruitment system, and you will be required to upload a supporting statement and CV as part of your online application.
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