Scientific Computing Linux System Administrator

SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING LINUX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY, DIDCOT

£28,384 - £29,566 PER ANNUM

About Us
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is a world-leading multi-disciplinary science organisation, and our goal is to deliver economic, societal, scientific and international benefits to the UK and its people - and more broadly to the world.

The Scientific Computing Department provides large scale HPC facilities, computing data services and infrastructure at both STFC Daresbury Laboratory and STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

The department also includes experts in a number of scientific fields including computational chemistry, computational engineering, materials science, band theory, computational biology, advanced research computing, atomic and molecular physics, numerical analysis, software engineering, data services, petascale storage, scientific information and scientific computing technology.

About the role
We seek a Linux Systems Administrator to work at the UK Tier-1 Computing Facility in Oxfordshire, part of the world's largest scientific computing Grid, supporting the CERN Large Hadron Collider's work to understand the nature of the elusive Higgs Particle and its search for new physics
You will work as a member of the Tier-1's Distributed Computing Services Team in the Scientific Computing Department at the Science and Technology Facilities Council's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory site.
You will be responsible for supporting the software stack which allows the Tier 1 to function as part of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid and will have expertise in Linux or UNIX and a range of skills in technologies relevant to running a large Linux cluster or high capacity disk storage systems.

About you
To join us you will need:

- Expertise in UNIX or Linux operating systems
- Excellent written and communication skills
- Knowledge of system integration
- Ability to diagnose/analyse system faults
- Expertise in system administration procedures and practise.

In return for your talents, we offer a competitive benefits package including 30 days annual leave, an excellent index linked pension scheme and learning and development opportunities.

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CLOSING DATE: 10 NOVEMBER 2014