Senior Research Fellow (Engineering and Entrepreneurship)

In regards to the College

Welcome to the College of Oxford. We goal to steer the world in analysis and schooling for the good thing about society each within the UK and globally. Oxford’s researchers have interaction with tutorial, industrial and cultural companions the world over to stimulate high-quality analysis and allow innovation via a broad vary of social, coverage and financial impacts.

The Oxford College Data Safety Operations, also referred to as OxCERT, is at present increasing, and searching for a Senior DevOps Engineer with confirmed expertise in Linux System Administration and Configuration Administration.

The put up holder may have expertise of managing on-premise Elasticsearch, cluster can be an added benefit.

The College of Oxford operates one of many largest non-public networks in Europe and the obligations of IT Companies embody not solely the operation of the core community and core providers, but additionally the safety of that community and the hosts linked to it. The OxCERT safety crew is answerable for figuring out safety incidents inside the College community and taking applicable remedial motion.

The crew additionally gives recommendation and help on all points relating particularly to IT safety and incident response. They’re an integral a part of the College’s data safety perform and work intently with data safety personnel as a part of ongoing College-wide data safety initiatives, and in co-ordinating response to main safety threats and incidents.

OxCERT function numerous techniques for community monitoring, incident evaluation and response, and associated inside providers. The crew is a robust believer in Free Software program and Open Supply applied sciences and actively helps a number of associated challenge communities. Present tasks embrace the enhancement of the prevailing Elastic primarily based safety data and occasion administration system, the deployment of a brand new incident response instrument, and improvement of an IT forensics functionality. The crew has achieved standing and recognition inside the worldwide neighborhood, and is a full member of FIRST (http://www.first.org/) – the world-wide physique of safety specialists.

Duties:

System Supply:

• Design, set up, administration, and assist of resilient multi-data centre techniques;
• Handle on-premise Elasticsearch primarily based SEIM resolution
• Collaborate with the broader InfoSec crew to counterpoint menace detection, deploy new tooling, and enhance automated response functionality.

Technical Technique and Planning:

• Present technical management for assigned areas and commensurate with experience, together with creating technical technique and roadmaps inside InfoSec and the broader College;
• Contribute to the formation of College IT coverage and design techniques to make sure their safe and resilient
• Current work outcomes and signify OxCERT and the College of Oxford in in related boards.

Engagement:

• Present technical management within the space of Linux techniques together with creating technical methods and roadmaps inside the Data Safety group, and the broader College
• Collaborate with the broader data safety neighborhood to share menace intelligence and analytic strategies;
• Lead technical challenge groups and practice junior member of staffs inside the group.

Private Growth:

• Preserve in-depth technical information of business developments and different assigned areas, together with developments, patterns, and rising applied sciences; benefit from applicable improvement alternatives; and advise the College on modifications to the know-how panorama.

Abilities and Expertise:

• Data of the Elastic stack; notably at scale and ideally on premises.
• Thorough understanding of the Linux platform (ideally Debian GNU/Linux) and configuration administration techniques, ideally Ansible;
• Data, mental capability, reasoning and analytical abilities equal to these of a graduate;
• Confirmed experience in superior Linux system administration, notably Debian GNU/Linux;
• Thorough understanding of IP primarily based networking (IPv6 and IPv4) and the OSI mannequin;
• Demonstrable expertise creating software program in excessive stage programming languages; ideally in Python
• Capability to steer or contribute to the event and supply of technical and data safety design from requirement elicitation via to remaining structure deployment inside the crew and in collaboration with related stakeholders;
• Demonstrable expertise of organising a busy and assorted workload requiring self-motivation and wonderful time administration abilities;
• Wonderful written and oral communication abilities, interpersonal and collaborative abilities, and the power to speak data safety and risk-related ideas to technical and nontechnical audiences; and
• Excessive stage of non-public integrity, in addition to the power to deal with confidential issues, and present an applicable stage of judgment and maturity.

Fascinating Abilities:

• Expertise of working infrastructure providers on public cloud infrastructure comparable to AWS, Azure, or GCP;
• Familiarity with the GitHub circulate (branching, PRs, evaluations, and many others.) and Docker
• Data of crucial net software safety points comparable to these recognized by the Open Net Utility Safety Mission (OWASP high 10);
• Demonstrable expertise of making use of sensible methodologies for each IT challenge and repair administration;
• The abilities and expertise to change into an efficient member of the division as rapidly as potential.

This emptiness closes on Monday 15 April 2024 at 12:00. We can be conducting interviews all through this era and maintain the correct to shut the emptiness ought to we discover the acceptable candidate for the place