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Who We Are and What We Do

We’re looking for a Systems Administrator (Linux & Cloud Systems) at Glencoe Software.

Glencoe Software builds scalable scientific imaging solutions used by academic labs, biotech companies, pharmaceutical organizations, and publishers worldwide. Our products are trusted globally for high-content screening, digital pathology, and other complex imaging applications. Our software is embedded in industry-leading data products, ensuring reliability, scalability, and best-in-class support.

About the Role

Glencoe Software is looking for a curious, motivated, and thoughtful Systems Administrator based in the UK to join our fully remote team. This role is ideal for someone early in their systems or DevOps career who wants hands-on experience with real production systems, cloud infrastructure, and automation, with mentorship and support from an experienced, international team.

You won’t be expected to know everything on day one. We care more about strong fundamentals, curiosity, and willingness to learn.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Remotely support and administer Linux systems (on-premises and cloud-based) used by customers worldwide
  • Install, upgrade, and maintain Glencoe’s software products, such as OMERO Plus, on internal and customer systems.
  • Plan and document changes to internal and customer systems consistent with Glencoe’s requirements in collaboration with the applications team.
  • Investigate and troubleshoot technical issues alongside engineering and applications team members.
  • Write and improve scripts to automate operational tasks.
  • Work with customer IT teams to support deployments of Glencoe’s software products.
  • Learn how to monitor, maintain, and operate long-running production systems.

Essential Requirements

  • Solid Linux fundamentals and comfort working on the command line
  • Experience with at least one Linux distribution (Rocky Linux, RHEL, or Ubuntu)
  • Basic experience with a cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • Some scripting experience (Bash or Python)
  • Good problem-solving skills and a desire to understand why things work
  • Clear written communication and a customer-focused mindset

Desirable Skills (Pluses)

  • Git and version control
  • Exposure to Docker or containers
  • Interest in DevOps, SRE, or cloud architecture
  • Previous technical support or customer-facing experience

What You’ll Learn With Us:

  • Managing production cloud and on-premises Linux systems
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation)
  • Configuration management and automation (Ansible)
  • Containers and container orchestration concepts
  • CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
  • Supporting scientific and data-intensive workloads at scale

Interested in joining us?

Glencoe offers a competitive compensation package, including salary, benefits and other compensation.

This position is open to UK-based candidates only and is available immediately. The successful candidate will work remotely, collaborating with Glencoe’s teams in the US and Europe.

Join us and work with a great team of people developing the world’s most powerful Image Data Solutions. Glencoe is headquartered in Seattle, WA with offices in Dundee, UK. You will work with Glencoe’s strategic and development teams based in the US and Europe. This position is a field position and will require overnight travel and proximity to a major airport. To apply, send your CV to jobs@glencoesoftware.com.

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