Computing Operations Engineer for Radio Astronomy (Fixed Term)

The Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge seeks to appoint a Computing Operations Engineer to support the work of the UK Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Regional Centre (UKSRC) project. 

When fully operational, the SKA will be the world's largest radio telescope and its users will rely on globally federated SKA Regional Centres (SRCs) to meet SKA science aims in areas such as seeking the origins of life and testing theories about the universe and its evolution. Alongside SKA work, the UKSRC will enable and enhance work in other areas of radio astronomy through a series of science demonstrator projects.

The UKSRC activities span 8 UK institutes with Cambridge contributing to the UK work package focused on the astronomy pipelines, distributed processing approaches and science platforms, as well as development of the compute and storage platforms. To enable and support our local, national and international development work, we are seeking a computing operations engineer to assist with application development, installation, configuration & troubleshooting, systems administration, operations and software release management (DevOps). Knowledge of container orchestration methods, software engineering and release management will be an advantage. As the UKSRC will be part of a global and federated network of SRCs there will be opportunities to work with, and learn from, national/international colleagues and experts in teams applying Scaled Agile techniques. 

We are looking for candidates educated to degree level, or having a relevant level 6 vocational qualification, who have good computing system administration knowledge and experience. Demonstrable familiarity with Python, cloud-based compute environments, research and release software engineering will be an advantage. 

We offer the successful candidate an opportunity to be part of a strong, friendly, and well supported SKA team in Cambridge and become part of an ambitious global science project. 

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society. For further information and to apply please visit https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/40379/.