Job Description
In this role you will be expected to hit the ground running and lead an agile multi-disciplinary team of Developers, Designers, and Analysts.
You’ll be the kind of person who is unconcerned with titles and hierarchy; have an aptitude for problem-solving and proactively deliver innovative technology that carries real value for users. You will draw value from collaboration with others, actively seeking input from colleagues and valuing a multidisciplinary team over hierarchy.
Key Tasks:
- Operational management of Linux servers, delivering a complex web application stack.
- Building and configuring new server platforms and the automated tooling to do so.
- Testing, debugging and troubleshooting of platform level problems.
- Supporting development teams with configuring applications for deployment.Using Configuration management tools like Puppet, Chef.
- Deploying and configuring machines in a Cloud environment.
- Installation and management of open source monitoring tools.
- Application deployment strategies and continuous integration.
- You will have demonstrable experience configuring web and application servers and possess a fundamental understanding of Linux. Previous experience in building and supporting a large production platform would be ideal.
- Passion for and ability to design and support robust build, deployment and configuration management systems for multi-tier Java J2EE & .Net applications.
- Experience with continuous integration tools (Jenkins, Travis-CI, Go).
- Experience administering application servers, servlet containers, and web servers (WebSphere, Apache Tomcat, Jetty, Nginx, Mongrel, Microsoft IIS, Apache HTTP server, etc).
- Some experience with unit testing and automated testing tools.
- Operations team experience.
- Virtualization systems (VMWare, Xen, etc).
- Cloud computing (EC2, Google App Engine, etc).
- Networking concepts, technologies, and protocols (TCP/IP, IPSec, HTTP, FTP, DHCP, and DNS).
- An understanding of common web application architectures.
- Experience in configuring and managing Linux servers for serving a dynamic website.
- Experience in debugging a complex multi-server service.
- Scripting or basic programming skills.
- Familiarity with network protocols - TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, etc
- A strong technical foundation in build, release and environments.
If this is something you are interested in please apply now or call the office for a quick chat on 01543 622407.
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