Principal Research Infrastructure Developer

Salary: £39,000 - 62,000 per year

Requirements:

• Interest in building research platforms, including hardware, networking, security hardening, and monitoring
• Strong advocacy for building systems correctly and providing secure, highly resilient systems and services
• Specialisation in two or more of the following: security hardening, HPC systems, ISO 27001 certification, secrets management, auditing/monitoring, privileged access management, network security, Kubernetes security, or trusted research environments

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and secure the computational software and infrastructure that drives our research
• Provide guidance on cyber-security best practice to colleagues across our Data Science, Research Software Engineering, and Research Infrastructure Development teams

Technologies:

• Hardware
• Support
• Kubernetes
• Network
• Security
• DevOps

More:

We are UCL, a multidisciplinary university with more than 13,000 staff and 42,000 students from 150 countries. Our Centre for Advanced Research Computing (ARC) is our institute for infrastructure and innovation in digital research. We deliver reliable, secure infrastructure and services to UCL research groups while also serving as a laboratory for research and innovation. Our teams include research technology professionals who support and collaborate in delivering UCL research. This role offers opportunities to develop through training, line management, research, or further specialisation in HPC and storage technologies. We also offer benefits and are committed to equality of opportunity, fairness, inclusion, and a sense of belonging. We particularly encourage applications from people underrepresented in our workforce, including people from Black, Asian, and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and, for Grade 9 and 10 roles, women. We are committed to advancing gender equality within our department.

last updated 40 week of 2026