Research Infrastructure Engineer - UOD2305

HIC hosts over 30 years of health data for nearly 20% of Scotland's population and supports secure, privacy-preserving research within our ISO27001-accredited TRE. We are expanding our platform to support emerging needs including AI/ML workloads and hybrid cloud architectures. If you are a skilled infrastructure engineer with a passion for problem-solving, security, and innovation you could be working with the Health Informatics Centre team (HIC - https://www.dundee.ac.uk/hic/) at the University of Dundee.

Your priorities will include:

• Design, deploy, and manage infrastructure across local, private, and public cloud environments.
• Work closely with developers, analysts, information governance teams, and researchers to deliver secure and performant technical solutions.
• Build and support custom configurations, including virtualised environments, containers, and hybrid cloud architectures.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance HIC's Trusted Research Environment (TRE) and associated research computing infrastructure.
• Implement new technical capabilities including AI/ML support, HPC, bioinformatics, imaging and genomics pipelines, and scalable storage/compute solutions.
• Ensure all infrastructure meets strict security, information governance, and ISO27001 standards.
• Contribute to the development of secure workflows for data ingress/egress, including algorithms and ML model export.
• Provide technical support, troubleshooting, and problem-solving across infrastructure components.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both specialist and non-specialist stakeholders.
• Take ownership of key work areas, driving continual improvement and innovation within HIC.

Who we're looking for:

• Degree in computing, engineering, maths, or a related STEM discipline.
• Experience deploying or managing server, cloud, or container-based infrastructure supporting production environments.
• Proficiency in scripting or programming (e.g. Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Understanding of secure cloud computing, information governance, and managing confidential/sensitive data.
• Familiarity with Linux and/or Windows systems administration.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools, virtualisation, or containerisation.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical topics clearly.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Proactive, problem-solving mindset with the ability to take ownership of tasks and deliver to deadlines. Desirable
• Experience with public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) or hybrid cloud deployments.
• Background in HPC, bioinformatics, research computing, or large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with genomics or imaging data pipelines.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, or container orchestration best practices.
• Knowledge of ISO27001 or other information security management frameworks.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git version control, and automation tools.
• Understanding of RDBMS technologies (SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL).
• Experience with monitoring systems such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, or similar.
• Contribution to research projects or academic publications.
• Strong interest in secure system design, root-cause problem analysis, and operational simplicity.

For further information about this position please contact Mr Chris Hall: [email protected]

To learn more about HIC please visit https://www.dundee.ac.uk/hic/.