Senior Web Ops

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE: - ALL THE SKILLS ON THE TEMPLATE +

- Linux
- Latest tools kits in Agile Delivery
- Systems Administrator type role, developing web based services for the public facing services.
- Someone with experience in training a webs op team and building technical capabilities within that team

DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE: - EXPERIENCE OF WORKING IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR.

Managing the team of Dev Ops; Share advanced knowledge of programming skills with the wider team, providing support where necessary; Operational management of Linux Servers, delivering a complex web application stack; Building and configuring new server platforms and the automated tooling to do so; Testing, debugging and troubleshooting of platform level problems; Supporting development teams with configuring applications for deployment; Anticipate technological developments to keep activity relevant and targeted; Sharing on-call duties as required.

The successful applicant will have:
Understanding of common web application architectures; Experience configuring and managing Linux Servers for serving a dynamic website; Experience debugging a complex multi-server service; Scripting or basic programming skills; Familiarity with network protocols - TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, etc.

- Operational management of Linux Servers, delivering a complex web application stack.
- Building and configuring new server platforms and the automated tooling to do so.
- Testing, debugging and troubleshooting of platform level problems.
- 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.
- 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