DevOps Developer

Nexus Jobs Limited; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Nexus Jobs Limited in London is seeking an experienced DevOps Developer to manage and monitor our Aurora Commerce infrastructure. You will work closely with the development team to ensure a robust, scalable platform across multiple servers and environments.

The role requires 5+ years of commercial experience with Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, plus familiarity with virtualization and cloud technologies. Based in Central London, you will collaborate with the Tech Director to optimise performance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a high-traffic, production web environment.
• Strong Linux systems engineering/administration skills.
• Experience with Linux (Centos 6.X), Apache 2.X, MySQL 5.X and PHP 5.X.

Responsibilities

• Manage and monitor the Aurora Commerce production and development servers.
• Collaborate with the development team to ensure a dynamic, robust, and scalable infrastructure.
• Respond to incidents promptly and coordinate with hosting providers as needed.

Skills

Linux

Apache

MySQL

PHP

Networking

Virtualization

AWS

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

KVM

VMware

AWS

Job description

Years of relevant experience

5+ years

Education Level

Bachelor's Degree

Career Level

Experienced (Non-Manager)

DevOps Developer

We are currently seeking aDevOPSDeveloper engineer to take on the responsibility of the Systems Administration role/department.

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5 yearscommercial experience of managing large and diverse systems with a specialism and focus towards LAMP based systems.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced DevOPS to join our expanding team, managing our servers.

You must have performance tuning experience with Linux (preferably Centos 6.X), Apache 2.X, MySQL 5.X and PHP 5.X.

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