DevOps Developer

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.