System administrator directory services

Come and work with us IT Services at the University of Manchester is a vibrant and fast moving department, focusing on delivering excellent customer service and quality services for our staff, students and researchers. Visit our website to find out more about our organisation and our values. IT Services: About us Working at The University of Manchester About This Role This is an exciting opportunity to work within one of the UK’s largest universities and help deliver the University of Manchester’s vision to become a world leading university. Supporting the delivery of this vision will be the authentication, directory and identity management services which are managed and developed by Identity and Access Management (IDAM). You will be working in a team of 8 to provide directory, identity and access management Services to over 50,000 students and staff. IT Services are looking for a highly technical System Administrator to be a part of our highly-skilled and ambitious IDAM team. You should possess in-depth knowledge, hands-on experience in the technologies we support. In return, this role offers an excellent opportunity to develop skills and work in a large organisation providing enterprise level identity and authentication services. Essential role requirements: A high level of knowledge and expertise maintaining and administering in Open Source systems; Knowledge and understanding of LDAP. Knowledge of Open Source federation technologies such as Shibboleth Recent web development skills Desirable: Knowledge and experience of enterprise level IT identity lifecycle management Knowledge and understanding of OpenLDAP Open Source System Administration qualifications. Experience working with a large enterprise distributed computing environment Ability to learn new technologies in order to help support some of our existing services When addressing the person specification criteria in your application for the role, please ensure you make reference to the specific role requirements above. What you will get in return: Fantastic market leading Pension scheme Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays Additional paid closure over the Christmas period Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit. Our University is positive about flexible working – you can find out more here Hybrid working arrangements may be considered. Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies. Any recruitment enquiries from recruitment agencies should be directed to [email protected]. Any CV’s submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift. Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews: Name: Lakshmi Maddala Email: [email protected] General enquiries: Email: [email protected] Technical support: https://jobseekersupport.jobtrain.co.uk/support/home This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date. Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.