The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is hiring a DRI Systems Administrator to support the DRI technical team in delivering Repository services and to administer the Repository infrastructure.
The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is hiring a DRI Systems Administrator to support the DRI technical team based in Trinity College Dublin (TCD). This is a three-year fixed-term contract. This appointment will be made on the Administrative 3 Salary Scale (€40,053 – €50,692 per annum) at a point in line with current Government pay policy.
DRI is a CoreTrustSeal-certified Trustworthy Digital Repository for Ireland’s cultural and social data. It consists of a consortium with staff in three partner institutions in Ireland: Trinity College Dublin, the Royal Irish Academy, and Maynooth University. The new role will be based at Trinity College Dublin.
The purpose of this role is to support the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) technical team in delivering Repository services and to administer the Repository infrastructure managing day-to-day system administration tasks such as monitoring, system upgrades, backups, website administration, and security audits.
The role holder will work as part of a small team of Linux oriented software engineers in the DRI group of the Research IT unit in Trinity College IT Services. They will also work closely with other DRI team members in Trinity College Dublin, the Royal Irish Academy, and Maynooth University to identify areas where the Repository functionality can be expanded to better support the aims of DRI as a whole.
Main Responsibilities
Systems
- Develop and maintain automated deployment scripts
- Operating system and website security updates
- Maintenance of backup infrastructure, including testing of backups
- Investigate and resolve technical issues with the Repository infrastructure
- Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance
- Contribute to bug fixing, documentation, software maintenance and other development activities as directed by the DRI Technical team Organisation
- Participate in DRI staff and project meetings, DRI cross-functional Task Forces, and other DRI activities as required
- Occasional travel to meetings and conferences in Ireland and Europe or online participation as required
- Assisting in project management activities such as project planning, reporting and metrics
General
- Deputise for colleagues as required and attend department meetings and events
- Any other duties that arise from time to time as directed by the manager or nominee
Person Requirements
The role-holder will require the following knowledge, skills, and attributes for successful performance in the role.
Qualifications
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or another technical discipline
Knowledge and Experience
- Demonstrable experience in Unix/Linux systems administration -essential
- Demonstrated ability to work well with a range of technical and non-technical staff to
- contribute to the development of functional requirements, specifications, work plans
- and schedules essential
- Demonstrated proficiency with team collaboration tools (issue-trackers, wikis, etc.) and version control systems (e.g., Git or Subversion) – essential
- Scripting skills – Ruby / Perl / Python – essential
- Knowledge of logging and monitoring tools for Linux systems, in particular Nagios
- Knowledge of deployment/provisioning tools such as Ansible
- Parallel and distributed file-systems such as Ceph
- Virtualisation (Compute and Storage)
- Experience in a software development environment would be an advantage
- Familiarity with a range of data formats such as XML and JSON
- Understanding of Digital Preservation technologies and processes
How to Apply
For more information and to apply for this role, please visit the Trinity College Dublin Vacancies section and search for the Job ID 036016. The closing date for receipt of applications is 14 Sept 2022 at 12:00.
Informal enquiries about this post should be made to Hiring Manager, Darach Golden, Research IT Manager, at DARACH.GOLDEN@tcd.ie.
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