Desired Skills and Experience

  • Contribution and active involvement with every aspect of the production environment to include
  • 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
  • Crafting SQL queries
  • Architecting and writing moderately-sized tools
  • Tweaking router and switch configurations
  • 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
  • Solid scripting skills in Shell/Ruby/Perl/Python
  • Strong understanding of IP networking, including familiarity with concepts such as OSI stack
  • Ability to analyze network behavior, performance and application issues using standard tools
  • Hands on experience in automated provisioning for server farms (using tools such as Kickstart, Cobbler etc).
  • Hands on experience in configuration management of server farms (using tools such as mcollective, Puppet, Cfengine, Chef etc..)
  • Hands on experience with open source monitoring and graphing solutions such as Nagios, Zabbix, Zenos and Munin.
  • 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 services Requirements
  • Experience with switches, routers, firewalls and load balancers
  • Working with PostgreSQL database
  • Administering Java based applications
  • Working knowledge of routing protocols such as BGP
  • Experience running high end Fortigate firewalls
  • 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!