About us
UCL is a multi-disciplinary university with a population of over 13,000 staff and 42,000 students from 150 different countries. For more information see www.ucl.ac.uk/about .
The UCL Centre for Advanced Research Computing (ARC) is UCL’s institute for infrastructure and innovation in digital research. We are an innovative hybrid: a professional services department that delivers reliable and secure infrastructure and services to UCL research groups, and a laboratory for research and innovation. We are a home for the research technology professionals - research software engineers, HPC systems engineers, dev-ops specialists, data scientists and data stewards - who support and collaborate in the delivery of UCL research.
Further information about working in ARC can be found on our website https://www.ucl.ac.uk/arc .
About the role
A Principal Research Infrastructure Developer will be responsible for designing, building and securing the computational software and infrastructure that drives UCL’s research.
About you
As a Principal Research Infrastructure Developer you will be interested in building research platforms including hardware, networking, security hardening and monitoring. You will be a strong advocate for "building it right” and working to provide secure, highly resilient systems and services. As part of this role there is an opportunity for growth - to obtain advancement by steering the focus to include training, line management, research or further specialisation in HPC/Storage technologies. You’ll provide guidance on cyber-security best-practice to colleagues across our Data Science, Research Software Engineering and Research Infrastructure Development teams.
As part of this recruitment we are looking to appoint a cyber-security focused Principal Research Infrastructure Developer with specialisations in two or more of the following: Security hardening, HPC systems, ISO 27001 certification, secrets management, auditing/monitoring, privileged access management, network security, kubernetes security or trusted research environments.
What we offer
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer great benefits. Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.
We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.
These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.
We are committed to advancing gender equality within our department.
You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/
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