Job Hazard Analysis Form - Appendix to Job and Person Specification

Job Description and Person Specification (HR5) Vacancy Number: 219613JF

Job Description

School/ iSolutions, Enterprise Systems Development Department:

Post Title: IT Infrastructure Specialist - Linux

Please enter ERE TAE MSA CAO R.Nurse Clinical Level under appropriate Career Pathway 4 Academic Posts Non-Academic Posts ERE Category Academic Research Teaching Enterprise Education Development (mixed) only only

Posts Responsible to (and ESD Team Leader Level):

Posts Responsible for (and none Level):

Job Purpose:

To work as a member of the team responsible for designing, implementing and optimising ICT infrastructure for the entire University.

Key Accountabilities/Primary Responsibilities (6-10 bullet points maximum)

Planning

To advise the ESD Team Leader of the products and resources needed to meet the agreed operational and service specification.

To advise the ESD Team Leader on suitable products within the commercial market place to meet identified needs, to identify gaps that the commercial marketplace cannot fill and to offer alternative solutions to a market approach as needed.

To advise the ESD Team Leader on suitable current and emerging products within the market place to meet identified needs.

To determine the needs of the users of products in all areas of the University and to determine how best to deploy products in the specialist area to meet the user needs.

To assist in the determination of the needs of University business processes and the needs of planned developments within the University and how best to deploy products and systems to meet those needs.

Operational

To participate in the implementation, configuration and documentation of specialist tools, applications and

1 equipment.

To provide innovative solutions to the delivery of services and facilities arising from iSolutions plans.

To advise iSolutions on the specification and the development of appropriate product evaluation programmes in the Enterprise Systems Development arena and to lead in such evaluations and procurements as appropriate.

To advise iSolutions of the software tools, applications, equipment and/or resources with the provision of documentation, support and training materials as appropriate

To ensure the integration of new solutions with other existing products and services delivered by iSolutions.

To participate in the development and implementation of quality assurance monitoring programmes, as agreed with the ESD Team Leader, for the development and delivery of products suitable for enterprise use.

To undertake any other duties as required by the Director of iSolutions.

Internal & External Relationships: (nature & purpose of relationships)

The post-holder will be expected to undertake the duties as part of an integrated team and will be expected to adopt priorities and engage in activities, which promote the effective working of the whole team.

The post-holder will be expected to liaise with relevant members of the University, suppliers as appropriate and with colleagues in other institutions and related organisations.

It is expected that the duties will be performed in the light of the relevant activities in Higher Education generally. The post-holder will be expected to be aware of the activities and initiatives being formulated nationally and internationally within the relevant specialist area and will be expected to take part in such activities should they be relevant to and of benefit to the work being undertaken locally.

Special Requirements:

To maintain the relevant level of professional expertise and qualifications to discharge the duties of an Infrastructure Engineer.

There may be a requirement to work varying core hours, and on occasion to work outside normal hours, to ensure that service commitments are met.

July 2012

2 Person Specification

Criteria Essential Desirable How to be assessed Qualifications, Degree, equivalent higher Experience working with CV, certificates and Knowledge and qualification, or relevant technical enterprise storage (SAN / references Experience: experience NAS) design and delivery.

Significant experience Linux Experience of virtualisation, CV, certificates, (preferably RHEL) and of web especially VMware references, work services such as Apache and vSphere. experience, interview Tomcat. Good knowledge and Experience of designing and experience of other building scalable and secure Linux operating systems such as infrastructure solutions. Solaris or other Unix.

Experience of creating deploying Experience in Prince2, and maintaining scripts using one ITILv3, or similar best or more of the following: Perl, Bash, practice Python.

Planning and Ability to work with others to: CV, references, Organising: interview o agree requirements o agree and deliver work packages o meet project deadlines o comply with application testing procedures o produce documentation to required standards o comply with release management procedures

Problem Solving Ability to proactively follow CV, references, and Initiative: problems through to resolution and interview, work identify problem areas experience

Ability to work to documented standards and procedures

Ability to identify requirements of users across an extensive user community

Able to investigate and provide creative approaches to problem solving.

Confidence to challenge existing work practices and offer ideas

Methodical, calm and clear-thinking under pressure

3 Person Specification

Management and Ability to contribute to collaborative Teamwork: team/project working

Communicating A professional, customer orientated CV, references, and Influencing: approach to project delivery interview

Excellent verbal and written skills and the ability to: o describe available technical solutions to end-users o communicate knowledge to technical colleagues o document procedures

Confidence to communicate with all levels of the organisation

Ability to provide clear and concise reporting.

Confidence to be a first point of contact for enquiries from colleagues, customers or suppliers

To be able to attend and confidently contribute to section and departmental meetings, to plan and present information

Special The post-holder will be required to Requirements: occasionally work outside normal office hours to meet the operational needs of the service.

Demonstrable keenness to research current market place and keep up to date with enterprise developments

Job Hazard Analysis Form - Appendix to Job and Person Specification

Please tick one of the following statements:

This post is an office-based job with routine office hazards e.g. use of VDU (if √ ticked, no further information needs to be supplied)

4 This post has some hazards other than routine office e.g. more than use of VDU

Please tick all those that apply, and put N/A if not applicable

Environmental Exposures O* F C Outside work Extremes of temperature (eg fridge/ furnace) Potential for exposure to body fluids ## Noise (greater than 80 dba - 8 hrs twa) ## Exposure to hazardous substances (eg solvents, liquids, dust, fumes, biohazards). Specify …………………………………………………………. ## Frequent hand washing Ionising radiation. Equipment/Tools/Machines used Food Handling ## Driving university vehicles(e.g. car/van/LGV/PCV) ## Use of latex gloves (note: prohibited unless specific clinical necessity) ## Vibrating tools ( e.g. strimmers, hammer drill, lawnmowers) ## Physical Abilities Load manual handling. Repetitive Crouching/Kneeling/Stooping Repetitive Pulling/Pushing Repetitive Lifting Standing for prolonged periods Repetitive Climbing i.e. steps, stools, ladders Fine motor grips (e.g. pipetting) Gross motor grips Repetitive reaching below shoulder height Repetitive reaching at shoulder height Repetitive reaching above shoulder height Psychosocial Issues Face to face contact with public Lone working Shift work/night work/on call duties ##

O – Occasionally (up to 1/3 of time); F – Frequently (up to 2/3 of time); C – Constantly (more than 2/3 of time) ## denotes to HR the need for a full PEHQ to be sent to all applicants for this position.

FOR SCHOOL/SERVICE USE ONLY ResourceLink Post Number Which post does this job report to Is this post a Line Manager? Yes No √ If yes, which posts directly report into it? ResourceLink Post Number

5 Post 1 Post 2 Post 3 Post 4 Post 5 Post 6 Post 7 Post 8 Please add additional rows as required

July 2012

6 Job Hazard Analysis Form - Appendix to Job and Person Specification

Please tick one of the following statements:

This post is an office-based job with routine office hazards e.g. use of VDU (if ticked, no further x information needs to be supplied) This post has some hazards other than routine office e.g. more than use of VDU

Please tick all those that apply, and put N/A if not applicable

Environmental Exposures O* F C Outside work Extremes of temperature (eg fridge/ furnace) Potential for exposure to body fluids ## Noise (greater than 80 dba - 8 hrs twa) ## Exposure to hazardous substances (eg solvents, liquids, dust, fumes, biohazards). Specify …………………………………………………………. ## Frequent hand washing Ionising radiation. Equipment/Tools/Machines used Food Handling ## Driving university vehicles(e.g. car/van/LGV/PCV) ## Use of latex gloves (note: prohibited unless specific clinical necessity) ## Vibrating tools ( e.g. strimmers, hammer drill, lawnmowers) ##

Physical Abilities

Load manual handling. Repetitive Crouching/Kneeling/Stooping Repetitive Pulling/Pushing Repetitive Lifting Standing for prolonged periods Repetitive Climbing i.e. steps, stools, ladders Fine motor grips (e.g. pipetting) Gross motor grips

Repetitive reaching below shoulder height

Repetitive reaching at shoulder height Repetitive reaching above shoulder height Psychosocial Issues Face to face contact with public Lone working Shift work/night work/on call duties ##

O – Occasionally (up to 1/3 of time); F – Frequently (up to 2/3 of time); C – Constantly (more than 2/3 of time) ## denotes to HR the need for a full PEHQ to be sent to all applicants for this position. FOR SCHOOL/SERVICE USE ONLY ResourceLink Post Number Which post does this job report to JF03005251

7 Is this post a Line Manager? Yes No X If yes, which posts directly report into it? ResourceLink Post Number Post 1 Post 2 Post 3 Post 4 Post 5 Post 6 Post 7 Post 8 Please add additional rows as required