Desired Skills and Experience

  • Our Data Analytics platforms are robust, reliable, secure and fit for purpose.
  • Our Data Analytics platforms advance and remain on the cutting edge
  • Our Platform team is productive and moving the platform forward along its roadmap.
  • Contributing to the team’s objectives, and moving the team forward along its feature roadmap.
  • Working with other stakeholders to define the team’s roadmap
  • Working with other Lead Engineers to define and evolve the platform’s high level design.
  • Working within and helping to evolve the team’s agile devops processes.
  • Sharing your existing and emerging knowledge with the team.
  • Managing, mentoring and supporting other team members.
  • The ability to learn new technologies fast.
  • Linux Administration skills (preferably Ubuntu)
  • Issue investigation and problem solving skills (preferably on distributed systems)
  • Ability to collaborate closely with others inside and outside the team.
  • Ability to develop in one or more of: Golang, Python, Bash
  • Experience of working with on-premises system deployments.
  • Experience of team leadership & managing others.
  • Experience with Agile/Devops Team processes.
  • Desirable Experience
  • Experience running and supporting PAAS platforms.
  • Administering, configuring and debugging Big Data Technologies (Hadoop, YARN, MapR, Spark, etc…)
  • Containerisation in distributed environments (preferably Docker, Mesos and Marathon)
  • Administering resources in public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Deployment Automation and orchestration tools (preferably ansible)
  • Continuous Integration, Delivery & Deployment
  • Monitoring technologies (ELK, Sensu)
  • After 3 months you’ll have a good understanding of our existing technology stack, and you’ll be problem solving and developing new features on a daily basis.
  • After 6 months, you’ll be well established within the team, and able to work independently on the majority of the platform components/services. You’ll be a subject matter expert within the team for at least one of our technologies.
  • After 6 months, you’ll be taking on responsibility for day-to-day running of some aspects of the team.

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