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<p class="MsoNormal">Hopefully you don’t mind as it’s a local job<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#515353">Talis is a fast growing SAAS enterprise software company that is changing the way Universities globally engage with their students, and we are now looking for a DevOps engineer to work
closely with our Development team on ensuring that we have the best tools for the job and we automate as much as possible. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#515353">Our infrastructure can range from big data tools such as Hadoop, Cloud services such as AWS and tool sets like Puppet, Ansible and Chef, but its really about that ability to work with
the development team and build streamlined processes that enable faster and better systems for everyone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#515353">While we work on the cutting edge tech, we still have the legacy infrastructure which needs to be managed and provisioned so you need to be comfortable doing both. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;line-height:inherit">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#515353">With the current engineer taking on the role of lead for this area, we need another enthusiastic and experienced hire to take their place and become the champion for DevOps in our business. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;line-height:inherit">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#515353">We offer the ability to work remotely for the right candidate after a period of time of working in the office full time to get to know us and our systems. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#515353">The role will be part of a 24/7 rota team which will be compensated accordingly. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue","sans-serif";color:#515353;text-transform:uppercase">REQUIREMENTS<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#515353">Strong Sys admin skills in Linux and cloud systems - AWS especially<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#515353">Good experience with scripting tools, Python, Ruby, PHP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#515353">Good experience of databases especially MongoDB or other NoSQL systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#515353">Proven experience of working with automation of infrastructure especially in a 24/7 SaaS environment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#515353">Knowledge of Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and the HTTP protocol. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#515353">A problem solver, able to get to the root of a problem<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#515353">Able to work closely with developers as part of the team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#515353">An educator, your role will be to help the development team make process easier.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue","sans-serif";color:#515353;text-transform:uppercase">BENEFITS<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#515353">Although our offices are based in central Birmingham, all of our roles allow a degree of home working depending on specific requirements as set by your peers and reports.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#515353">In addition to a very competitive salary, we offer an exceptionally generous contributory pension scheme, private medical insurance (after induction period) and immediate cover on an
exceptional Health Cash Plan, including dental and optical cover.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#515353">100% employee owned – every employee shares in the value of the company through our options scheme<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#515353">Flexible working hours and location – although we are small we have people on three continents and at many locations across the UK.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#515353">Transparent reporting – every team communicates progress weekly to everybody – and you are free to ask questions or make suggestions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#515353">Hack events every quarter – for the whole company not just dev – our latest projects included a custom-built arcade machine, internet-enabled milkbot built
into our fridge and hacking the walls with custom graphics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#515353">Beautiful Grade II listed offices in the heart of the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#515353"><a href="http://careers.talis.com/"><span style="color:#0088CC;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Learn more</span></a> about what it is like to work at Talis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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