Director of Technical Operations at CLOCKSS

• Vacancy for Director of Technical Operations at CLOCKSS

1 November 2026

Remote

Part-Time

CLOCKSS is looking for a self-employed contractor to serve as our technical services and infrastructure director. This is a broad role combining hands-on technical work with strategic planning, vendor management, partner liaison, and operational governance. It requires technical skills in Linux systems administration, infrastructure support, and troubleshooting, along with management and communication skills. You will oversee our administrative and technical systems and play an important liaison role with the LOCKSS team based at Stanford University and the academic organizations round the world which host CLOCKSS nodes.

You will work closely with these colleagues to ensure the CLOCKSS archive remains healthy, reliable, secure, and well-supported.

We are a long-term digital archive for scholarship and operate in a complex ecosystem of preservation technology, physical hosting partners, library and publisher system integrations, and strategic infrastructure.

This role would suit a consultant who enjoys bridging operational detail and strategic oversight. You will exercise judgment, build relationships with and coordinate multiple technical partners, and advise leadership, as well as carrying out administrative tasks. You may have experience of long-term digital preservation, or this mission should resonate strongly with you. You’ll be able to provide technical leadership and operational oversight for CLOCKSS by coordinating the work of external technical partners without having line management responsibility for staff employed by these organizations.