About the Company

We provide SaaS applications that help connect Real Estate Agents and

Consumers by using domain expertise and cutting edge technology to

deliver bespoke business solutions (CRM, Marketing/Lead Management, Sales and

Accounting, Portal Integrations).

About the role

We are looking for a candidate who has the ability to lead and a passion for applying a mixture of systems engineering and automation skills to build robust, scalable,

highly-available infrastructures to facilitate business success.  The primary

responsibilities will be related to systems engineering and administration

in a devops context driving site reliability and scalability strategies

but will also involve wider devops duties.  You will be working closely

with development, quality assurance and support teams to ensure continuous

delivery, provide expertise, handle technical escalations and develop tools and automate processes that improve operational efficiency.

The ideal candidate will be a professional with over 5 years relevant experience

and holds a graduate technical degree and/or equivalent industry qualifications

(LPI Systems Administrator, RHCA/RHCE, AWS SysOps, CCNA/CCNP).

The position will involve:

Desired Skills and Experience

  • Designing and delivering systems engineering and site reliability strategy. Managing health/monitoring, growth, scalability, reliability, complexity, etc.
  • Building high-availability/disaster failover/recovery infrastructures and procedures.
  • Configuring, monitoring and administering Ruby-On-Rails/PHP services on Linux systems (Debian/Ubuntu preferred).
  • Managing high-availability of database systems (MariaDB/Mysql, Postgresql, elasticsearch, rabbitmq)
  • Assisting dev/test/support teams, solving problems and automating common tasks
  • Troubleshooting problems, performing triage and recommending resolutions.
  • Developing, testing, improving tools, systems processes and documentation
  • Performing regular essential maintenance tasks - patches/upgrades, rebuilding machine images, phasing in infrastructure-as-code/versioned-infrastructure.
  • Mentoring and providing point-of-contact for Junior Sysadmin/DevOps engineers.
  • Research and development around increased cloud IaaS adoption (AWS/ec2, S3, CloudFront, ELB, Kubernetes/Docker)