[linuxjobs] Agency Role - London, UK Linux DevOps Engineer 60k 10% bonus
James Riddett
James at btr-rec.co.uk
Thu Sep 8 11:59:38 UTC 2011
Linux Operations Development Engineer - Social Networks
Location - London
* Location: London, United Kingdom
* Salary :- £45>55,000 plus 10% Bonus, healthcare, pension etc.
* We offer 25 days holiday per year
* Great Offices, chilled out environment (we work from home one day a week
* Casual Dress
* The opportunity to be part of a team of social and intelligent individuals who appreciate the potential of social technology.
Skills Linux Operations Engineer with Puppet, Hadoop, Hbase, NOSQL, AWS Cloud, Ganglia
BTR are hunting for an exceptionally talented Linux Development Ops engineer for a role in a fast growing start-up based in London they're building exciting social technology whilst working with social networks and major brands across the world.
You'll be starting our DevOps process and will work amongst our team of talented developers to create the foundations for a scalable, stable, high performance SAAS platform and infrastructure. The role will expand in future and you'll drive how we best deliver that growth.
You'll work mostly on our ad management & optimisation product and social integration platforms. We're working on interesting applications and use technology including HBase, Hadoop, Mahout and EC2.
Essential:
* 34 years Experience of sys admin within a Linux LAMP + python environment
* Experience of rapid deployment processes including Puppet (or similar)
* Experience of live, high volume, scalable environments
* Motivated, ambitious self starter able to work under own initiative
* Able to communicate actions and priorities so all the team understand
Desirable:
* Degree from top university in computer science, engineering or science
* Experience of Hadoop, HBase, Key Value stores, NoSQL, graph engines
* Experience of working with AWS cloud environments
* Experience of security/ compliance audit and documentation processes
Responsibilities
* Ensuring we deliver the right experience for users
* Communicate with internal team, clients or users as necessary to explain application and infrastructure status, requirements and configuration
* Proactively monitor and manage production applications
* Resolve production problems, working with the development team to ensure we avoid failures where possible and manage them gracefully where not
* Making the process work
* Setup, maintain and improve the companies development, staging and production environments.
* Provide a stable, fast platform for applications
* Setup, maintain and improve automated deployment and configuration processes
* Setup, maintain and improve testing and continuous integration processes
* Ensure the application, environments and infrastructure are secure and fit for purpose
* Making sure our platform can scale efficiently
* Work with the development team to ensure both application and infrastructure are able to handle scaling (up and down) and failing
* Engage with external consultants to define requirements, gather information and present recommendations to development and management teams
* Manage the capacity planning process including monitoring, forecasting and testing
* You'll provide support to users (clients & consumers) and work out how we deliver support including outside standard working hours as we support a global user-base. Expect to spend time on-call as we run operations.
Job Requirements and Qualifications
* You'll have experience of scaling Linux and MySQL environments and working with PHP and Python.
* Your approach will involve creating repeatable processes so that your efforts go into improvement and making day-to-day work simple.
* Tools such as Puppet and Ganglia will be part of your toolkit and you'll expect to use them whilst setting up the platforms that we'll roll out.
* You'll be a self starter and used to working autonomously but you'll keen to be part of the team, contribute innovative ideas and drive a smart Dev/Ops culture
Kind Regards,
James
James Riddett
Consultant
BTR Recruitment LTD
Direct: 0203 195 7092 Main: 0203 195 7094
Website: www.btr-rec.co.uk Linked in: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesriddett <blocked::http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesriddett>
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