THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

The University is a global institution known for innovation and world firsts, with 25 Nobel Prize winners. The computer revolution started here in 1948 when a machine known affectionately as ‘The Baby’, ran its first stored program. The celebrated wartime codebreaker Alan Turing worked on this computer during his time at Manchester.
The University has committed to becoming one of the world’s leading research institutions through one of the largest investments in facilities ever seen at a UK university, with £750 million spent so far and another £1 billion to follow.

The successful candidate will focus on the development and support of the research VM platform, our edge compute service and potentially HTCondor. In particular:

• provisioning of mainly Linux, but also some MS Windows, VMs and template creation;
• operational maintenance and security of VMs, and user support;
• design, build and operational support of dedicated, computational and data storage edge compute platforms for individual research groups;
• development and operational support of our HTCondor service (https://ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk/htccondor/).

It is expected that the role will be approximately: 50% technical; 50% user support and engagement with the research community. To find out more you are strongly encouraged to contact simon.hood@manchester.ac.uk.