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Systems Developer (High Performance Computing)

Job title Systems Developer (High Performance Computing)

Department Digital, Data & Technology Group

Salary Starting from £33,797, rising to £40,322 per annum

Grade Grade 7

Contract Type Full Time

SOC Code - Visa Requirements 2136 (IT Business Analysts, Architects and Systems Designers / Programmers and Software Development Professionals / Web Design and Development Professionals)

Placed on Wednesday 01 September 2021

Closing date Wednesday 22 September 2021

Interview date Thursday 07 October 2021

Reference OJ8632

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Do you have the talent and ambition to take High Performance Computing (HPC) and Research Computing to the next level?

We are looking for a talented individual who has a passion for exploring new and emerging technologies and practices within research computing and wants to share their talent with an active and vibrant community. Strong candidates will have proven experience in delivering and maintaining high-quality HPC environments and in nurturing talent. 

The challenge

You will be joining the ARC team at an exciting time as the University has already started the migration of the HPC environment to the cloud. 

This will be a pivotal role in advancing the University’s research capability and guiding our HPC community on this journey. We will be facing new challenges and you will be at the forefront of developing innovative and community-orientated solutions to help our research community thrive.

The position

As a Systems Developer in HPC, you will have the responsibility of ensuring that our HPC infrastructure and platforms are running seamlessly and are delivering value back into the University.

The successful candidate will have an innovative and agile approach, be an excellent communicator, have a strong team work ethic, and be able to work under pressure in a fast-paced, service-based environment. They will be able to work closely with colleagues across the University and apply in-depth expertise to develop integrated and automated workflows with a focus on performance and optimisation. They will contribute to developing knowledge and skills of an active and growing community through providing support and promoting the adoption of best practices and delivering technical training courses.

Digital, Data and Technology are here to ensure our staff and students are able to enjoy a seamless experience for learning, teaching & research. We aim to provide a technological environment that matches the University's international, teaching and research reputation, and which contributes to the realisation of its key institutional strategies. We strive to respond intuitively to both the ever evolving needs of our users, and the wide diversity of those users through the exploration of new and emerging technologies.

What we can offer you:

Our campus is surrounded by beautiful countryside, and the City of Bath with its historic charm and social activity only a short distance away creates an excellent environment in which to work. 

We are:

  • a family friendly workplace 
  • open to exploring flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the University. 
  • recognising of the talents of our diverse workforce through an excellent reward package 
  • encouraging of your personal and professional development

Find out from our staff what makes the University of Bath a great place to work. Follow us @UniofBath and @UniofBathJobs on Twitter for more information.

We aim to be an inclusive university, where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds leads to a better environment for our employees and students, creating a learning environment and organisational culture that enhances health and wellbeing across our community. We are very proud to have recently received Ambassadors for Autism certification and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

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We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details will be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.