Digital Web Ops

Digital Web Ops

Role: Digital Web Ops
Duration: 5 months
Location: London
Start: ASAP
Clearance: BPSS Check with Disclosure of Scotland

Rate: £400-£500 per day

Our government client is currently recruiting for a Digital Web Ops role based in London for 5 months initially.

You will be responsible for the operational management of Linux Servers, delivering a complex web application stack. You will help with the building and configuring of new server platforms and the automated tooling to do so. You will be responsible for testing, debugging and troubleshooting of platform level problems.

Experience Required
You will have demonstrable experience configuring web and application Servers and possess a fundamental understanding of Linux. Previous experience in building and supporting a large production platform would be ideal.
An understanding of common web application architectures.
Experience in configuring and managing Linux Servers for serving a dynamic website.
Experience in debugging a complex multi-server service.
Scripting or basic programming skills.
Familiarity with network protocols - TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, etc.
A strong technical foundation in build, release and environments.
Passion for and ability to design and support robust build, deployment and configuration management systems for multi-tier Java J2EE & .NET applications.
Experience with continuous integration tools (Jenkins, Travis-CI, Go).
Experience administering application Servers, servlet containers, and web Servers (WebSphere, Apache Tomcat, Jetty, Nginx, Mongrel, Microsoft IIS, Apache HTTP server, etc).
Some experience with unit testing and automated testing tools.
Operations team experience.
Supporting development teams with configuring applications for deployment.
Virtualization systems (VMWare, Xen, etc).
Cloud computing (EC2, Google App Engine, etc).
Networking concepts, technologies, and protocols (TCP/IP, IPSec, HTTP, FTP, DHCP, and DNS)
Installation and management of open source monitoring tools.
Configuration management tools like Puppet, Chef.
Deploying and configuring machines in a Cloud environment.
Application deployment strategies and continuous integration.

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