About this role
Location: Osney One Building, Osney Mead, Oxford OX2 0EW
Hours: Full-time
Contract type: Permanent & fixed-term for 2 years
About the role
You will join Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services (BDLSS), which provides digital services across the Bodleian Libraries for students, academics, researchers and the public. Working with software engineers and other technical colleagues, you will help keep the Libraries’ primarily Linux-based digital services reliable, secure and straightforward to maintain.
You will maintain and support Linux-based applications and infrastructure, including deployment, configuration, upgrades, patching and troubleshooting. You will help operate and develop cloud and virtualised infrastructure, implement monitoring, logging and alerting, support containerised applications, and contribute to business continuity, backup, restoration and recovery testing. You will also troubleshoot complex technical problems and work with colleagues on architecture, deployment and improvements to existing services, with particular attention to security and reliability.
There are two full-time posts available – post 1 is permanent, and post 2 is fixed-term for 2 years. Please specify your post preference in your application.
About You
You will have demonstrable experience of administering and troubleshooting Linux-based systems and applications, including command-line tools, service configuration, patching and system security. You will have experience of automated provisioning, configuration management and deployment, together with a good understanding of relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL and/or MySQL.
You will be an excellent problem solver with experience of diagnosing technical issues across applications, operating systems and infrastructure. You will have experience of monitoring and supporting production systems and services, and an understanding of performance, reliability, availability, logging, alerting, backup and recovery. Experience of cloud platforms, containers, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability technologies or public-facing digital services would be advantageous.
Diversity
Our staff and students come from all over the world, and we proudly promote a friendly and inclusive culture. Diversity is positively encouraged, through diverse groups and champions, as well as a number of family-friendly policies, such as the right to apply for flexible working and support for staff returning from periods of extended absence, for example, shared parental leave.
We are committed to ensuring that our recruitment processes are inclusive and accessible. If you require the job description or any other materials in an alternative format, or if you would like to request any adjustments to support you through the application or interview process, please contact the recruitment team at [email protected].
How to apply
You will be required to upload your CV and a supporting statement as part of your online application. Your supporting statement should list each of the essential and desirable selection criteria, as listed in the job description, and explain how you meet each one. Both documents must be submitted to be considered.
The Chair of this recruitment panel will be James Mooney, Senior Digital Preservation Technical Architect, who can be contacted with enquiries relating to the role ([email protected]). For queries about the recruitment and application process, please contact ([email protected]).
Only applications received online by 12.00 midday (GMT) on Friday 27th November 2026 can be considered. Interviews are expected to take place during the week commencing Monday 14th December 2026.