Huddle's
Tech Ops team manages our SaaS production systems globally, ensuring
that the service is highly available, performant, and totally secure. It
provides business-critical infrastructure for our dev teams to support
the build/release/deploy pipeline, and all production releases.
As a Senior Systems Engineer joining
the team, you will design and implement improvements to our production
platform for improved reliability, greater capacity, and higher
performance, using a mix of Windows and Linux skills in a variety of
hosting environments from managed servers through to cloud-based IaaS.
You will work closely with Architecture, Development and QA to enable
the smooth delivery of releases, and assist Developers in managing and
monitoring their own components. You will support our Agile development
cycle by providing internal dev/test rigs, build and deploy services on
TeamCity and Octopus, and the supporting services such as GitHub, JIRA
and Confluence.
Here’s how you will contribute:
- Lead hands-on engineering projects while providing technical and tactical guidance to other team members
- Enhance our infrastructure to improve security, performance, and scalability of production systems
- Work
with the development teams to help them write software with security
and operability built-in from the start, and to troubleshoot issues with
their code in production
- Support
and maintain the production systems: new releases, diagnostics,
monitoring and fire-fighting (including on-call cover for urgent issues)
- Keep
the development pipeline running smoothly with provisioning of dev/test
rigs and reliable TeamCity, Octopus and Chef services, supporting the
development lifecycle with JIRA, Confluence and GitHub.
- Use
your analytical skills to diagnose complex end-user issues, impressing
the customer with responsive and smart customer service
Skills and experience that will help:
- Website
operations at scale, preferably public-facing, with a focus on security
and high availability, in both dedicated hosting environments and IaaS
(e.g. AWS, Azure)
- Building distributed systems using AWS components (EC2 instances, CloudFormation, VPCs, ELBs, Route53, RDS, Elasticache etc)
- Windows,
Linux and hypervisor system administration (VMWare, Hyper-V), including
automation technologies such as PowerShell DSC and Chef
- Networking and internet technologies (TCP/IP, VPNs, HTTP, AJAX, REST)
- At least one modern scripting language (e.g. PowerShell, Python)
- Familiarity with C#, the .NET Framework, ASP.NET, HTML and JavaScript
- Products
like RabbitMQ, Redis, Event Store, Elastic Search, LogStash, Kibana,
and security technologies such as IDS, scanners, SIEM.
- SQL Server administration and T-SQL, SQL clustering and replication, and an appreciation of relational database techniques.
- Experience with firewalls, load balancers, proxies, CDNs.
- Working knowledge of agile development practices and how they are applied in a Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
About the team:
We work in a multiskilled team at the
heart of Huddle’s engineering process, working side-by-side with
Architects, Product Management, Technical Operations, QA Engineers and
UX Designers to ensure a consistently top class product is delivered to
our customers in a way that is scalable to the business.
At Huddle we have a collaborative
jukebox playing in the background, gather around colourful stand up
boards and give all of our demos in a massive auditorium.
Huddlers are foodies, sports
enthusiasts, video and board gamers, and pub goers. There’s burger club,
cheese club, monthly release drinks, team lunches, breakfast on
Mondays, lunch on Wednesdays and beer o’clock on Fridays. Our team is
from all over the world and we would love for you to join us too!
Perks:
- Private Medical Insurance and Life Assurance Plans
- Private Pension Plan with up to 3% contribution from Huddle
- 25 days of holiday plus your birthday off each year
- “Huddle Cuddle” – a £500 lifestyle bonus per year as a thank you for your hard work.
- Cool office with kitchen stocked with fruit, snacks and beverages
- Innovation Time between agile sprints to work on self-driven projects
- Work alongside a number of key members of the London .Net User Group and regular presenters on the conference circuit.
- Two days per year to support the Huddle Foundation by dedicating your time to a charity/non-profit
- Corporate gym rates
