Linux Engineer

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This role is available to current employees within IT Services at the University of Leeds only.

Interviews expected to be held 9 May 2024

Salary: Grade 6 (£30,487 - £36,024 p.a. depending on experience)

This role will be based on the university campus, with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. We are also open to discussing flexible working arrangements.

Using Puppet, Ansible, Satellite and associated technologies, you will be delivering and supporting the University’s Linux client Devices and core Infrastructure. You will participate in new and existing transformation projects, working closely with IT Security, Networks, Windows Server team, Cloud team and Storage to ensure systems are fit for purpose, and meet strategic and user requirements. You will champion best practices, drive change, refactor technical debt, mentor other team members, and shape the future of Linux Provision and Management at the University.

You will bring your enthusiasm, your curiosity, and your dedication to work with you, effecting change, through wider stakeholder collaboration while internally modernising the Client and frontline provision of Linux systems to enable a high-quality IT service, supporting a range of business-critical, research and teaching services in a Higher Education environment. In return we are dedicated to creating a comfortable team environment where staff feel able to raise question and put forward innovative ideas and suggestions, allowing the option to investigate improvements, then in turn leading these improvements through internal Linux Projects and effecting real and lasting change within the service. While proactively seeking out ways to bring together the wider IT community.

In order to keep adding value to our service offering you will work collaboratively with colleges both within the team and across the wider IT Function looking to apply a process of continual service (and personal) improvement across all areas in line with the key aims of the Linux Team: 

• Enabling Delivery of Learning and Teaching;
• Enabling Research (Support Environment and Hardware);
• Enabling Support Teams.

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact: 

Chris Pilkington, Linux Manager

Email: [email protected]

Location:  Leeds - Main Campus
Faculty/Service:  IT
School/Institute:  DDO
Category:  Technical Support
Grade:  Grade 6
Salary:  £30,487 to £36,024 p.a.
Post Type:  Full Time
Contract Type:  Ongoing
Release Date:  Monday 15 April 2024
Closing Date:  Monday 29 April 2024
Interview Date:  Thursday 09 May 2024
Reference:  ITDDO1083
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