DevOps Developer

Jas Gujral; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology service provider in Central London is seeking a skilled DevOps professional to manage and monitor their bespoke e-commerce infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in Linux systems engineering, a solid understanding of high traffic environments, and excellent communication skills. This role offers a competitive salary ranging from £40K to £55K.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Linux systems engineering or administration.
• Minimum of 5 years working in a production web-based environment.
• Expertise in DNS, TCP/IP Networking, and firewall configuration.

Responsibilities

• Manage and monitor the infrastructure for the Aurora platform.
• Ensure timely investigation of infrastructure issues.
• Work closely with the development team to maintain a scalable infrastructure.

Skills

Linux administration

High traffic environment experience

Networking principles

Verbal and written communication

Tools

Apache

MySQL

PHP

KVM

VMware

AWS

Job description

Overview

We currently develop and host a bespoke high performance e-commerce platform on behalf of our established clients. Server setups vary from single dedicated servers to a load-balanced web nodes with database active-passive cluster. The infrastructure is managed hosting with 2 providers and over 30 servers.

What You Will Be Doing

The successful candidate will reactively and proactively manage and monitor the infrastructure and ensure any issues are investigated in a timely manner either first hand or delegated to the hosting provider depending on the priority/severity of the issue. Based in Central London and reporting to the Tech Director, the DevOPS will work close with the development team to ensure a dynamic, robust, and scalable infrastructure to support our platform, “Aurora”.

On a daily basis you will be responsible for the smooth running of Aurora Commerce production and development servers

What You Need for this Position

Required Technologies with performance tuning experience:

• Linux – preferably Centos 6.X
• Apache 2.X
• MySQL 5.X
• PHP5.X

Required Skills:

• Solid Linux systems engineering/administration experience
• At least 5 years experience working in a high traffic, production web based environment
• Experience with 24/7 Linux based web operations environment
• A good understanding of:
• • HTTP and HTTPS
  • DNS
  • TCP/IP Networking principles
  • Firewalls rules and configuration
  • Experience of virtualisation technologies and virtualisation management (KVM, VMware, AWS)
• Strong verbal and written communications skills. These include proficiency in documentation, and creating policies, procedures, and standards

Advantageous but Not Essential (nice to have):

• Varnish
• Memcached
• Redis
• Sphinx
• VSFTP
• SVN
• Redhat Clustering
• GFS
• NFS

Salary will be in the range £40K - £55K

Please send your CV in Word format, along with your salary and availability details.