Web Operations Engineer - Assanka (recently acquired by FT)

Web Operations Engineer - Assanka (recently acquired by FT)

Location: West London (W12) , West London View map Salary: Attractive Basic + Benefits + bonus Date posted: 31/03/2012 18:03 Job type:Permanent Company: Financial Times Contact: Michelle Flynn Ref: Totaljobs/AWebops Job ID: 53200912

About us:-

Assanka builds award winning web applications, with new ideas for delivering the very best the internet can offer.

Were a software company that surprises our clients all the time.

The role:-

Join us as a web operations engineer to help us deliver our web sites and applications with high availability and maximum performance. Support and work with our developers by providing a cutting edge platform for our software, and a reliable service that our clients and web users can come to depend upon. Our sites have previously won three Webby aw ards and other prestigious accolades.

Youll be helping to manage a server farm of up to 50 machines and associated network appliances, engineering for fault tolerance, maximum scalability and performance and minimum environmental impact, while also dealing with around a dozen web applications running on the platform.

Responsibilities:

Operational management of Linux servers running Apache, MySQL, PHP and associated technologies

Building developer VMs and configuring new server platforms

Testing, debugging and troubleshooting of platform level problems, identifying and isolating problematic software to assist the development team and systems administrators with fault resolution.

Monitoring and optimising server and application performance

Supporting the development team with deployment and production config for their applications

Sharing on-call duties

Required skills

Experience managing linux servers for high avai lability

Server monitoring, Zabbix/Nagios etc

Shared storage

MySQL database deployment, monitoring and optimisation

Proxy strategies for website acceleration

Configuration management using cfengine or puppet

Package management using RPM

PHP, SQL and JavaScript to an advanced level

Technical problem solving abilities

Desirable skills

Data protection compliant backup strategy

System performance tuning and capacity planning

CCNA/CCNP

***You MUST be eligible to live and work in the UK to be considered for this position

You should also be able to attend interview in london within the next couple of weeks***