Desired Skills and Experience

  • Dealing with design issues.
  • Running large server farms in multiple geographic locations around the world.
  • Performance analysis.
  • Capacity planning.
  • Assessing applications behavior.
  • Linux engineering and systems administration.
  • Architecting and writing moderately-sized tools.
  • You will focus on solving difficult problems with scalable, elegant and maintainable solutions.
  • In depth expertise in Linux internals and system administration including configuration and troubleshooting.
  • Hands on experience with performance tuning of Linux OS (CentOS) in identifying bottlenecks such as disk I/O, memory, CPU and network issues.
  • Extensive experience with at least one scripting language apart from BASH (Ruby, Perl, Python).
  • Strong understanding of TCP/IP networking, including familiarity with concepts such as OSI stack.
  • Ability to analyze network behaviour, performance and application issues using standard tools.
  • Hands on experience automating the provisioning of servers at a large scale (using tools such as Kickstart, Foreman etc).
  • Hands on experience in configuration management of server farms (using tools such as mcollective, Puppet, Chef, Ansible etc).
  • Hands on experience with open source monitoring and graphing solutions such as Nagios, Zabbix, Sensu, Graphite etc.
  • Strong understanding of common Internet protocols and applications such as SMTP, DNS, HTTP, SSH, SNMP etc.
  • Experience running farms of servers (at least 200+ physical servers) and associated networking infrastructure in a production environment.
  • Hands on experience working with server hardware such as HP Proliant, Dell PowerEdge or equivalent.
  • Be comfortable with working on call rotas and out of hours working as and when required to ensure uptime of service’s requirements.
  • Working with PostgreSQL database.
  • Administering Java based applications.
  • Knowledge working with MVC frameworks such as Ruby on Rails.
  • Experience with container technology.
  • Pet Projects – open innovation competition to invent new products and services. Significant cash prizes and kudos to be won
  • Patent support and expertise. Get your name alongside your innovations
  • Flat management structure with approachable leaders in open-plan office. Autonomy, freedom and empowerment
  • Startup feel with stability and security of an enterprise. Adoption of DevOps culture, Agile ways of working, fast paced, challenging but always fun
  • Innovation culture, led by global experts including Mimecast CTO Neil Murray and Chief Scientist Nathaniel Borenstein, inventor of the MIME protocol and first person in the world to send an email attachment
  • A truly international team working together in a friendly, relaxed and open office atmosphere
  • Happy, vibrant office space with multiple breakout areas.  Free breakfast, lunch, snack and smoothies daily, cold brew and rotating beer on tap!  Nap room, gym and showers!