Years of Relevant Experience: 5+ years
Education Level: Bachelor's Degree
Career Level: Experienced (Non-Manager)
Position: DevOps Developer
We are currently seeking a DevOps Developer to take on the responsibility of the Systems Administration role/department.
The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5 years commercial experience managing large and diverse systems with a specialism and focus towards LAMP based systems.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced DevOps professional 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 load-balanced web nodes with a 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 firsthand 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 Developer will work closely 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:
- Linux – preferably CentOS 6.X
- Apache 2.X
- MySQL 5.X
- PHP 5.X
Required Skills:
- Solid Linux systems engineering/administration experience
- At least 5 years of 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 with virtualization technologies and management (KVM, VMware, AWS)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including 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: £40K - £55K
Please send your CV in Word format, along with your salary and availability details.
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