Dev Ops Engineer in London

You have a passion for keeping distributed systems running 24/7 in a reliable, performant, efficient, and secure manner. You are extremely detail oriented and take pride in being thorough. You are highly organized and sometimes get unsettled when things are out of place.

• Leverage your experience with caching, scalability, and concurrency technologies and best practices
• Experience with cloud and virtualization technologies and components from leading vendors (e.g. AWS, GCE, GAE, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, VirtualBox)
• Take the lead on the development of important products / applications in the medium-term
• Maintain, optimize and plan improvements for our existing systems
• Help manage software builds and deployments across multiple environments
• Maintain a variety of software infrastructure components including application and database servers
• Maintain a variety of hardware infrastructure components including Linux servers and various networking gear
• Implement and maintain production system monitors
• Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis
• Participate in an on-call rotation for production system support

• 5+ years of experience with Linux and/or UNIX system administration
• Ability to perform automation tasks using a scripting environment such as Bash
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP networks
• Strong understanding of storage system maintenance and optimization
• Experience with source code control systems such as Git
• Experience with system-monitoring services such as Nagios and Graphite
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent communication and organization skills

• Experience with full-text search servers such as ElasticSearch or Solr
• Experience with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL
• Experience with NOSQL databases such as Cassandra