Desired Skills and Experience
- Ensuring the 24/7 availability of systems, infrastructure and our real-time, low latency data.
- Designing, building and allocating resources as required by application and business demand.
- Managing our internal toolset (including LDAP, Jenkins, Puppet, Foreman, Hadoop)
- Designing and implementing redundancy and DR for all products and services.
- Automating the deployment and packaging of software products and releases.
- Monitoring and implementing backups and ensuring data resiliency and integrity.
- Troubleshooting, fixing problems and owning issues through to resolution.
- Expert knowledge of managing Linux (CentOS) servers at scale – both virtual and bare metal.
- Networking – experience of managing switching, routing and firewalls.
- Configuration management - experience working with Puppet and/or other systems.
- Good database skills; hands on experience managing and optimising performance of MySQL and Postgres.
- Lots of production experience managing Apache, Nginx, Haproxy and other webserver software.
- Good working knowledge of Vmware / ESXI and HP Blade Class hardware.
- Skills in scripting and automation with languages such as Python / Ruby / Perl.
- Cloud experience ( AWS, GCP, Azure ) a bonus
- Experience working remotely / independently with a globally distributed team.
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