Job ID: 887

Closing Date: 22nd June 2025

IT Services at the University of Sheffield provide a full range of complex IT and technology-enabled services that support education, research, workplace, corporate services and infrastructure enablers to all our staff and students.

This highly innovative department is a key enterprise IT partner that works across the University, with stakeholders and key partners to deliver enterprise-wide products and services in line with strategic aims.

Our main focus for the future is:

• Build more services in AWS and increase our automation for server setup and code deployments
• Improve resilience in the design of our services and hosting to deal with more recent challenges and threats to our services
• Put in place good practice to help developers with designing and hosting systems

We are looking for a talented technical leader to head up our DevOps Team and lead the growth of the team and our continued growth into the cloud space.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Providing DevOps support to developers across the department. Manage and develop Continuous Integration pipelines and tooling, including Jenkins, Github Enterprise and Jira
• Designing and maintaining the hosting for a number of critical systems including our single sign on infrastructure and integration tooling.
• Designing, implementing and managing the hosting of all systems run by the team so they are resilient and performant enough for our 40,000+ staff and student users (plus the general public who use our systems too)
• Automating deployment processes where we can to ensure reliable deployments to production services
• Configuration of servers using Apache, NGINX, PulseSecure Virtual Traffic Managers, Tomcat, NodeJS and a range of other technologies as required
• Learning about the latest tools, techniques and frameworks and share that knowledge with other teams we collaborate with
• Designing and planning the future direction of our infrastructure and hosting platforms
• Carry out other duties, commensurate with the grade and remit of the post

Working in our team means you get to:

• Work on delivering systems from the concept, through the design and development process, launch of a service and the ongoing maintenance
• Design solutions using the right tools including AWS and our on premise infrastructure
• Work on designing resilient and reliable services used by large numbers of users
• Use a wide-range of technologies to develop and host websites and applications
• Work on collaborative developments with product owners from the business using Scrum and Agile techniques
• Take time to learn new technologies from knowledgeable team members, and have chance to try out and evaluate new things as they come out
• Bring your own experience and expertise to change and improve the work of the department
• Understand some of the wider aspects of how the department and University work, often working with colleagues from across the organisation

Our vision and strategic plan

We are the University of Sheffield. This is our vision: sheffield.ac.uk/vision.

What we offer

• A minimum of 41 days annual leave including bank holiday and closure days (pro rata) with the ability to purchase more.
• Flexible working opportunities, including hybrid working for some roles.
• Generous pension scheme.
• A wide range of discounts and rewards on shopping, eating out and travel.
• A variety of staff networks, providing opportunities for social interaction, peer support and personal development (for example, Race Equality, LGBT+, Women’s and Parent’s networks).
• Recognition Awards to reward staff who go above and beyond in their role.
• A commitment to your development access to learning and mentoring schemes.
• A range of generous family-friendly policies

o        paid time off for parenting and caring emergencies

o        support for those going through the menopause

o        paid time off and support for fertility treatment

o        and more

More details can be found on our benefits page: sheffield.ac.uk/jobs/benefits.

We are a Disability Confident Employer. If you have a disability and meet the essential criteria for this job you will be invited to take part in the next stage of the selection process.