Lead Devops Architect - Puppet, Chef, Nosql, Mongodb - London

Lead DevOps Architect - Puppet, Chef, NoSQL, MongoDB - London. My client is a ground-breaking technology start-up based in the heart of London. The offering is a large-scale, mass-market consumer service for both web and mobile. The team are a highly intelligent bunch who have joined my client after successful stints at companies like Skype, Microsoft, Yahoo and lastminute.com.

An opportunity has arisen for a talented Lead DevOps Architect.

Key Skills:
· Experienced systems architect

· Strong knowledge and experience within DevOps (with some development experience as well as systems engineering and operations)

Experience:
· Systems architecture for large distributed web sites and APIs

· Managing large (over 100 server) cloud deployments using tools such as Puppet or Chef, including setting up:

o Monitoring systems

o Centralised logging

o Performance testing

o Automated deployment

· Experience with cloud servers and services from AWS, Rackspace or similar

· Scaling, redundancy across many servers and multiple datacentres

· Database monitoring and scaling in a NoSQL environment, e.g., MongoDB

· Caching solutions, e.g. Redis, Memcache

· Deep knowledge of Unix environments and their tools

· Have worked in an agile process

· Great communication skills

Desirable:
· Ruby on Rails experience (programming, deploying, maintaining, scaling)

· Working with big data processing using distributed systems such as Hadoop

· Managing and scaling queuing systems such as RabbitMQ

· Experience managing Node.js services

This counts as one of the most exciting opportunities around right now! If you believe you fit the bill and are up for the challenge, get your details over to us right away!