The role
We have an exciting opportunity at Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) for an individual with skills in Linux system administration to join the PML’s Digital Innovation and Marine Autonomy (DIMA) group. The role provides a business critical link between scientists, PML Applications (commercial work) and our IT Group to support the Linux computing infrastructure as it continues to evolve, underpinning PML science in multiple areas and across all levels. This ranges from data generation, (storage technologies and data management), processing and analysis (high performance computing and technologies such as JupyterHub), to making visual outputs for end users (web technologies and virtualisation) to increase the reach and impact of PML science.
About you
You will enjoy working with others to help deliver a modern and reliable digital infrastructure to underpin the world leading research carried out at PML. You will understand the importance of stability from existing infrastructure but will also be keen to learn and try new technologies. You will have experience of administering Linux systems, ideally using Ubuntu, and will be able to make use of scripts and common tools such as ansible to manage this. You will understand the importance of taking a proactive approach to identify and resolve and problems and will be able to make use of monitoring software (e.g., Nagios, Grafana) to accomplish this. You will understand best practices in cybersecurity and be able to apply these.
Skills Required
- Linux systems administration and monitoring
- Linux scripting (e.g., bash and Python)
- Experience in management of data at the Terrabyte to Petabyte scale and storage technologies such as NFS and S3.
- Cybersecurity (Understand and apply best practices)
- Container technologies (Docker and Kubernetes)
- High performance Computing (Slurm)
- Virtualisation (VMWare)
Salary and band details
- PML operations grade 4: £30,000 – £45,000 (Dependent on experience)
- Full-time
- Open-ended appointment