DevOps Developer
DevOps engineer managing 30+ production and development servers (managed hosting across two providers) for a bespoke high-performance e-commerce platform, 'Aurora'. Day-to-day is reactive and proactive infrastructure monitoring and LAMP performance tuning (CentOS, Apache, MySQL, PHP) in a 24/7 high-traffic environment, based in Central London and reporting to the Tech Director.
- Compensation
- £40K–£55K / yr
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's Degree
- 5+ years commercial experience managing large and diverse systems with LAMP specialism
- Performance tuning experience with Linux (preferably CentOS 6.X)
- Performance tuning experience with Apache 2.X
- Performance tuning experience with MySQL 5.X
- Performance tuning experience with PHP 5.X
- Solid Linux systems engineering/administration experience
- At least 5 years working in a high traffic, production web based environment
- Experience with 24/7 Linux based web operations environment
- Good understanding of HTTP and HTTPS, DNS, TCP/IP networking principles, firewall rules and configuration
- Experience with virtualisation technologies and management (KVM, VMware, AWS)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including documentation, policies, procedures and standards
Nice to have
- Varnish
- Memcached
- Redis
- Sphinx
- VSFTP
- SVN
- Redhat Clustering
- GFS
- NFS
Full description
Years of relevant experience
5+ years
Education Level
Bachelor's Degree
Career Level
Experienced (Non-Manager)
DevOps Developer
We are currently seeking aDevOPSDeveloper engineer to take on the responsibility of the Systems Administration role/department.
The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5 yearscommercial experience of managing large and diverse systems with a specialism and focus towards LAMP based systems.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced DevOPS to join our expanding team, managing our servers.
You must have performance tuning experience with Linux (preferably Centos 6.X), Apache 2.X, MySQL 5.X and PHP 5.X.
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