DevOPS Engineer

DevOPS Engineer

Location: West London , London Salary: From 50,000 to 60,000 per annum + benefits Date posted: 25/04/2012 16:16 Job type:Permanent Company: Alliants Strategy to Results Contact: Paul Nolan Ref: Totaljobs/Devops Job ID: 53451588

A great opportunity to join on of the UK's fastest growing online organisations, who are expanding globally.

DevOPS engineer

Reporting to: Senior Technical Manager

Department: Technical department

Generally: Work within the technical team on the design, implementation and maintenance of all the technical systems of our online infrastructure. Includes systems design & configuration, OS/Middleware/Application management, security, deployments, uptime monitoring and performance reporting.

Specifically:

Responsibilities

oManaging and improving our existing infrastructure, using tools such as Puppet/Chef to automate as much as possible.

oSetting up monitoring and alerting systems that ensure that any issues in our production environment are resolved as quickly as possible.

oExtending and improving systems for automating our testing and deployment processes.

oWorking closely with the development team to ensure that the application is interacting effectively with the infrastructure it runs on.

Requirements

oAble to work in London full-time.

oCompetent English speaker, good written and spoken communication skills.

oProfessional experience of Linux systems administration.

oExcellent knowledge of programming and shell scripting. Ruby would be a huge advantage.

oConfiguration management (Chef or Puppet) experience.

oFamiliarity with cloud computing platforms such as AWS and Rackspace cloud.

Bonus points for

oComputer Science degree.

oWorking knowledge of load-balancers and high-availability setups.

oPractical knowledge of BigIP F5s, Redhat Cluster Suite.

oWorking knowledge of databases; MySQL, MongoDB, Redis

oAny experience of Windows systems administration and Active Directory.

oHands on experience with virtualization technologies (VMware/Xen)