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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