{"id":136336,"date":"2024-03-15T12:08:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T12:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta-ukri.msappproxy.net\/?page_id=136336"},"modified":"2025-05-14T15:49:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:49:43","slug":"jacob-ward","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/news-and-events\/101-jobs-that-change-the-world\/jacob-ward\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"videoholder\">\n<p><span class=\"videowrapper embed-youtube-nocookie aspect_ratio_562\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"From gamer to cloud systems engineer l 101 jobs that change the world S2 Ep 8\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/KOAuSG2CvGQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span> <!-- \/.videowrapper --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"video-caption\">Video credit: UK Research and Innovation<br \/>\nVideo transcript and on-screen captions are available by watching on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>What is it like to keep thousands of servers running for a cloud infrastructure so that scientists can access the compute resources they need without worrying about maintaining their own systems?<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Ward is a cloud systems engineer at the Science and Technology Facilities Council&#8217;s Scientific Computing Department. In this video, learn more about his fascinating work and how he got here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video credit: UK Research and Innovation Video transcript and on-screen captions are available by watching on YouTube. What is it like to keep thousands of servers running for a cloud infrastructure so that scientists can access the compute resources they need without worrying about maintaining their own systems? Jacob Ward is a cloud systems engineer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"parent":23849,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"wf_page_folders":[],"class_list":["post-136336","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-ukri"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136336"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136359,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136336\/revisions\/136359"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136336"},{"taxonomy":"wf_page_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_page_folders?post=136336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}