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Oops! I knew I'd left something out but couldn't think what it was (or perhaps I should just pretend that I imagined people would be able to find the Imperial employment website :-)) https://www4.ad.ic.ac.uk/OA_HTML/OA.jsp?page=/oracle/apps/irc/candidateSelfService/webui/VisVacDispPG&akRegionApplicationId=821&transactionid=1743314560&retainAM=Y&addBreadCrumb=S&p_svid=43387&p_spid=1661063&oapc=7&oas=wE-DAvWC-x5zWwFJkFVPAQ..

Salary £42,670 - £51,590 per annum This is a post working in the Technical Operations group of ICT; the people who run our servers (of which there are lots; I've lost count but the stat that I read last week said that our robotic tape loaders have processed almost half a million tapes to backup the data on the servers) As the job title says, this is mainly a Windows post but knowledge and experience of Linux and Mac OS would be useful. I'm not involved in the recruitment process for this job but can give general information about the post or about working at Imperial College (it's a good place to work!)

I've just been sent details about a job at Harrow College: Working at Harrow College - click on the "view vacancies" button. Salary: £28,814 per annum Brief description: Harrow College is seeking to appoint a dynamic and creative Network Engineer to implement, administer and support the effective operation of all IT services and network resources throughout the College and associated sites. (please note that I don't work at Harrow so know nothing about the job other than what is detailed in the advert)

https://www4.ad.ic.ac.uk/OA_HTML/OA.jsp?page=/oracle/apps/irc/candidateSelfService/webui/VisVacDispPG&akRegionApplicationId=821&transactionid=1287190776&retainAM=Y&addBreadCrumb=S&p_svid=43184&p_spid=1657060&oapc=7&oas=dU2A7CwZGEW0v5P1F8CQ0w.. Salary £42,670 - £51,590; closing date 31 March 2014 The job title is not terribly helpful! ASK Imperial is our branded version of Service Now (you can see the customer side of it here - https://imperial.service-now.com/ict) At its simplest, it's a helpdesk system but it's not simple and it does just about everything - it's the way we manage just about everything that passes through ICT (and the platform is also used by the Library, purchasing helpdesk, and student hub) This is an important role - it's at the heart of our ICT service delivery - and you'll be working with a fairly broad range of issues (eg we've just linked the data from SCCM into ASK. This means that you can all up any computer in ASK and find out a whole range of data - who uses it, which network switch it plugs into, when it was last seen on-net, what software it has installed, its service history etc. If you're interested in more details about the job please check the website - there's a fairly detailed job description and person spec - or you can email me ([email protected]) for general queries. Please note that I am not involved in the recruitment process for this job - if you want to apply then please follow the instructions on the website.

https://www4.ad.ic.ac.uk/OA_HTML/OA.jsp?page=/oracle/apps/irc/candidateSelfService/webui/VisVacDispPG&akRegionApplicationId=821&transactionid=412180896&retainAM=Y&addBreadCrumb=S&p_svid=43180&p_spid=1657056&oapc=7&oas=Jij2JgbwaP17H4MH21KqWw.. Salary in the range £33,590 – £41,540 I don't know anything about the role other than what it says on the website. I can tell you that this might be a good time to join the team - Imperial is developing a new website at the moment and although this job isn't directly linked to that, there is a huge desire to get a website where all the bits work and look good. ICT is growing at Imperial; after a period where there was no funding and posts weren't filled when people left, we now have a new CIO in place and a desire to make sure that a world leading university continues to have world leading ICT behind it. Happy to answer questions about any general points - [email protected] - but can't tell you anything specific about the job.

You're better than an awful lot of the people here (and the really exciting thing is that our maintenance teams are colour coded and I work in a building supported by the Purple team [although I don't think they're as good as the Orange team. Team Purple still hasn't fixed the broken shower I reported 10 days ago!])

Holland Club closed in December 2012; it's been replaced by the ħ (https://www.imperialcollegeunion.org/food-drink/h-bar) (the name, of course, is a scientist "joke". The "ħ" symbol is pronounced "H bar" and represents the Planck constant divided by 2π One of the many good things about working in a University is that you have a range of bars on-site :-)

We do have a senior member of staff living in Cornwall; he works from home sometimes and stays in London for a few days a week. Sadly, this is a job where you need to be on-site pretty much every day :-)

We have a vacancy for a site manager: https://www4.ad.ic.ac.uk/OA_HTML/OA.jsp?page=/oracle/apps/irc/candidateSelfService/webui/VisVacDispPG&akRegionApplicationId=821&transactionid=349087666&retainAM=Y&addBreadCrumb=S&p_svid=43058&p_spid=1654093&oapc=7&oas=87VZ0xbljDCqcaGaFkbwNQ.. Salary in the range £42,670 - £51,590 Unlike some universities, Imperial College provides ICT support centrally (departments don't run their own email, file servers, webservers etc) Desktop support is all part of the same department but is based in buildings across campus. These teams are known as "Faculty Support"; there are 10 such teams and this post is to manage one of the teams (it's vacant following an internal promotion) It's a massively varied job because the 21,000 people here use computers in a massive variety of ways. If you want more information about the post then feel free to email me ([email protected]) but please don't send me your CV - I'm not involved in the recruitment process and you must complete the form on the website. I should also say that I'm one of the 10 site managers; I've now been here for over 5 years and there's still lots of stuff for me to learn which always makes a job feel like a good one!

Technical Infrastructure Manager - Royal College of Music - jobs.ac.uk Salary c. £35,000 inc. allowances The Royal College of Music is based behind the Royal Albert Hall and is one of Britain’s leading conservatoires. It provides specialised musical education and professional training at the highest international level for performers and composers. I think this would be an amazing place to work. Please note I've got nothing to do with this post (but I do work in the building next door and if you get the job you'd be welcome to come in and buy me a coffee :-))

I've just been sent details of this post: Network Manager | John Ruskin College Salary in the range £36,957 to £38,691 Please note that I don't know anything about the post or the college; I'm just sharing the info (but I can tell you that London's only tram goes very close to the place so that might be exciting!)

Just seen details of these two vacancies at Ealing Hammersmith & West London College on a mailing list - please not that the jobs are nothing to do with me although I do know the College and it's always seemed like a pretty good place to work. Steve EHWLC Jobs - Web Systems Developer (Ref: SS6-13)/Report Developer (Ref: SS7-13)) Closing Date: Sunday 2nd February 2014 (midnight). Application by CV Only. Hours: 36 hours per week Salary: £28,826 - £36,566 per annum (S01-P02) dependent on skills & experience. Location: Hammersmith Campus - position will involve travelling to other campuses. Candidates will be considered for both positions. Ealing Hammersmith & West London College has 2 exciting new posts working in the newly formed Information Systems Department helping to develop college business systems and reporting solutions. We are a friendly, supportive team; working within a learning environment we are keen to ensure that all staff are able to develop new skills to ensure the most effective solutions are found. We are looking for:- - One Report Writer/Developer to help develop management information reports and dashboards to monitor KPIs. - One Web Systems Developer to help develop internally produced software and to integrate to third party software. Do you have significant experience using Databases and SQL and high level skills in one or more of: SSRS, OLAP Cubes, PHP, ASP, C#.net, HTML, CSS, Client Server? Experience of working in an educational environment is preferred but is not essential, a solutions driven approach is most important together with enthusiasm, excellent communication skills, the ability to work independently and in a team along with the desire to develop new skills and technology. Our aim is to recruit the best staff possible and to deliver first class teaching to our learners. We are committed to equality and diversity, and expect our staff to share this commitment. The safety and welfare of our staff and learners is extremely important to us and is why we pride ourselves on obtaining an Ofsted grade 1 for our Safeguarding procedures. Application Details For an informal discussion about this role please contact the Head of IS, Lucy Brown, [email protected] If you have the skills and enthusiasm to help the college deliver outstanding business systems and management information reports please submit your CV [email protected]. Please quote the reference number in all correspondence. Closing Date: Sunday 2nd February 2014 Interview Date: Early February 2014 PLEASE NOTE: Candidates invited for interview will receive a notification to the email address supplied on their application form. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date of this post, please presume that you have not been selected for interview. We reserve the right to bring forward the closing date of any vacancies when we have received a suitable number of applications from which to make a shortlist. All positions are subject to a DBS (formerly CRB) check and your start date will be dependant on receipt of satisfactory DBS clearance.

We're recruiting again (this is to replace someone who was internally promoted). Details at https://www4.ad.ic.ac.uk/OA_HTML/OA.jsp?page=/oracle/apps/irc/candidateSelfService/webui/VisVacDispPG&akRegionApplicationId=821&transactionid=1211766710&retainAM=Y&addBreadCrumb=S&p_svid=42313&p_spid=1639008&oapc=7&oas=WsCN-TTOdhqSX04cXBHkag.. Salary in the range £28,770 - £32,750 (or possibly £33,590 - £41,540 if you have enough prior experience). If you are appointed, you would probably start on the lower salary range but would expect to move to the higher range within a few years. This is essentially a desktop support post - you need to have good experience with Windows and Linux and/or Mac, be good at dealing with users (there are lots of them; mostly amazing, some not ...) and able to learn lots of new things quickly. I'm not involved in the recruitment process so please don't send me CVs etc (you need to fill in the form on the website and return it as instructed there) but feel free to ask any questions about the job, the College etc. (email [email protected])

Nothing to do with me (although I used to work at CNWL) - details just appeared in a mailing list so I thought I'd share for anyone who might be interested. Systems & Applications Administrator: Closing date 25th October, 12 noon, Interviews 6th November - College of North West London Salary is £28,632 p.a. inclusive

There is a vacancy at Imperial in the networks team - link below. Please note that I am not in any way responsible for recruitment and don't work in Networks but can answer general questions about the job or Imperial itself. Imperial has a large network with a pretty impressive team running it. (some random numbers: there are > 100,000 wired MAC addresses registered in our database; approx 4,500 desktop teaching PCs; about 10,000 desk phones (mostly CISCO VoIP); approx 8,000 IP addresses allocated to the wireless DHCP pools; 3 class B public IP ranges in use (all computers use a public IP); 40Gbit/s internet connection) https://www4.ad.ic.ac.uk/OA_HTML/OA.jsp?page=/oracle/apps/irc/candidateSelfService/webui/VisVacDispPG&akRegionApplicationId=821&transactionid=1104723970&retainAM=Y&addBreadCrumb=S&p_svid=41399&p_spid=1629918&oapc=7&oas=KyDinxNH2qOBd-YzsWlUAA..

In VMWare you need to connect the USB stick to the virtual machine; you can then use ESC to choose a boot option (may be easier to use F2 to change the boot option) You might find it easier to "snapshot" the physical machine - the easiest way to do this would be to use Mark Minasi's Steadier State setup (Steadier State) Essentially, you boot Window from a VHD with an attached snapshot file. After each change you want to keep you merge the snapshot into the master. Any time you want to roll back you just throw away the snapshot and you're back to the previously saved state. At the end of all this you have a VHD which contains your machine. You can either deploy that or you can convert to a WIM. One benefit of deploying using VHD is that you can have 2 copies on the machine; if anything goes wrong with the machine you just change your Windows PE loader to point to the non-broken copy and then replace the broken copy while the machine is running (it's just a file)

OK; the advert has now been updated to show clearly that the jobs are open to anyone and the closing date extended to 23 October so there's more time to apply. Interviews should be w/c 5 November. We do need good, new people at Imperial - it's an amazing place to work in a brilliant part of London and the salary's not too bad!

Apologies for the confusion in the advert - it states that the posts are internal only. As far as I can tell, this is not the case - they are open to anyone. I'm trying to get the website updated but this requires HR to do stuff which isn't always easy (and it also needs a very clunky Oracle system to behave and that's even harder!)

Following 2 more promotions, we have 2 vacancies for IT Support staff. Details here: https://www4.ad.ic.ac.uk/OA_HTML/OA.jsp?akRegionCode=IRC_VIS_VAC_DISPLAY_PAGE&akRegionApplicationId=800&transactionid=401511993&retainAM=Y&p_svid=38750&p_spid=1602173&oapc=9&oas=UioRgzD_Pnkkg-zWePn8ZQ.. There's a chance that that stupidly long URL won't work - if so, go to Employment and follow "Job search for applicants not currently employed by Imperial College staff" and then look at Professional Area "Information Communication Technology" The jobs are in the faculty support teams - providing second line desktop support to staff and students in one part of the College (eg my team provides support to all Maths and Physics users) The job involves working with end users - if you're the sort of geek who doesn't like dealing with end users then it's not for you. On the other hand, if you want the challenge of supporting world leading science (Imperial consistently ranks in the top 10 worldwide) then this is the job for you. You should be very familiar with working with Windows and either Linux or Mac OS (the bulk of teaching machines run Windows; other machines run just about every OS that exists!) Note that there are 2 salary scales; you would normally expect to start on a 3a (£28,200 up) but most people progress to 3b once they've demonstrated that they are doing the job at a satisfactory level. If you want to ask about this feel free to email me - [email protected]

We have more vacancies at Imperial. https://www4.ad.ic.ac.uk/OA_HTML/OA.jsp?akRegionCode=IRC_VIS_VAC_DISPLAY_PAGE&akRegionApplicationId=800&transactionid=1764391368&retainAM=Y&addBreadCrumb=S&p_svid=37838&p_spid=1592189&oapc=10&oas=QNX-44lCCIHF8E7Nr-m6Gw.. gives details of the post of IT Services site manager (there are about 10 "sites" and each has a site manager - for info, my job is as manager of the team known as FoNS West) This would be a good post for someone who has been working as a technician but would now like to move to a bigger organisation and gain some management experience. The other post https://www4.ad.ic.ac.uk/OA_HTML/OA.jsp?akRegionCode=IRC_VIS_VAC_DISPLAY_PAGE&akRegionApplicationId=800&transactionid=53125304&retainAM=Y&addBreadCrumb=S&p_svid=37772&p_spid=1590161&oapc=17&oas=ZBbmqOg-5PGZ45ju1OIqNw.. is as a member of the operating system support group. This is a "back office" type job and is suitable for someone who wants to work in a large organisation doing a very technical job. Feel free to ask if you have any questions about the jobs but note that I'm not involved in the recruitment process; I just work here :-) You can email me - [email protected]

Again, nothing to do with me - just sharing info! Note the closing date for this is Friday 11 May so don't delay if you're interested. Digital Content Manager Central School of Speech and Drama Salary, Grade 6: £33,581 per annum including London Weighting. This is an exciting opportunity to take a lead role in the development of the digital strategy for the U.K.'s leading HE Conservatoire. You will be responsible for maintaining the college's existing digital presence, as well as being involved in a project to enhance and develop this further. Candidates for this role will be highly creative and adept in using digital media to deliver effective and engaging marketing initiatives. In order to meet the intense demands of this role, you will quickly develop a firm understanding of the college's mission, identity and business needs, all of which must be properly articulated by our website and other digital presences. You should have wide experience of managing digital content and a knowledge of and passion for cutting edge social media. This post is a part of the Department for Development and External Affairs and you will be working closely alongside other marketing professionals, but you will also need to form strong relationships with key stakeholders from across the college. For further information and application details please email: [email protected] Closing date for receipt of application forms is 9am on Friday 11 May 2012 Interviews will be held on Thursday 31 May 2012

Job Details, Jobs at STC, South Thames College This post is targeted at a candidate with excellent networking skills with experience in: • LAN routing and switching protocols esp. Cisco/Procurve • Wireless technology esp. Trapeze/Juniper • VoIP esp. Cisco Unified Communications Manager • Internal and perimeter network security esp. Cisco PIX/ASA Salary: £30,407 - £32,018 p.a

Nothing to do with me but it looks like an interesting job. A nice job has come up at the Royal College of Art in a small IT team, supporting creative art & design staff and students at Kensington and Battersea. We have lots of Macs and smart devices and do some interesting stuff with e-Learning, there are also some good benefits and an interesting working environment: We are seeking an IT Technician to provide Information Technology support and advice to researchers, students and staff of the College. You will support, maintain and develop College IT infrastructure and services and have the ability to work with a team of IT staff representing a variety of specialist skills within an HE environment. You will have good analysis and problem solving skills together with knowledge and troubleshooting skills for Windows XP, 7, mobile, Mac OS X, Android, Blackberry and iOS. With significant experience in supporting IT users and services in enterprise or educational IT, you will also have the ability and enthusiasm to learn about other specialist IT skills relevant to the College. Knowledge and experience of standard front-end web technologies (HTML/CSS/Javascript) or a particular area of IT expertise and experience relevant to the College's IT provision would be an advantage. Royal College of Art - IT Technician, Information, Learning & Technical Services £28,138 - £32,256 pa For further information and an application form please visit our website: Royal College of Art | Current Vacancies or e-mail the Personnel Assistant at [email protected]. Alternatively you may write to the Personnel Assistant, Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2EU or telephone 020 7590 4138. Closing date: Thursday 24 May 2012

There's a vacancy at the Courtauld Institute - The Courtauld Institute of Art: IT Support Analyst This is nothing to do with me - I'm just on a mailing list where this was posted - so I can't really tell you anything about the job but I think that the Institute itself is a fantastic place to work (it's on the Strand so walking distance from most of central London)

Yet another vacancy (it may seem like there have been a few recently but remember that Imperial ICT employs more than 200 people!) https://www4.ad.ic.ac.uk/OA_HTML/OA.jsp?akRegionCode=IRC_VIS_VAC_DISPLAY_PAGE&akRegionApplicationId=800&transactionid=2096875012&retainAM=Y&addBreadCrumb=S&p_svid=34306&p_spid=1528120&oapc=21&oas=8KwF2UBqzmDPEQJPBBcfcA.. This is working on the ICT Service Desk so you're the first point of contact for our users. Feel free to email [email protected] if you have any queries.