Web Operations Engineers with Automation Expertise (Devops)

Web Operations engineers with automation expertise (DevOps). We are looking for experienced Web Operations engineers who are passionate about Agile development practices, continuous integration and automation engineering to work in Westminster London.

The applicant must have demonstrable experience configuring web and application Servers and possess a fundamental understanding of Linux. An ideal candidate will have previous experience supporting a large production platform.

You will collaborate closely with our development team to ensure our applications and services are interacting efficiently with the infrastructure it runs on, bridge the knowledge gap between operations and development and help us communicate back performance and application metrics back to the business.

We work mostly in Node.js and Java. We use continuous integration tools like Ansible, Puppet and Jenkins to deploy to and manage our VMWare environment, and Nagios for monitoring. We use MongoDB, Redis, MariaDB and RabbitMQ to harness, store, analyse and transport data.

We love diversity: some of us worked at startups, some at big corporates. Some people in the team love Node.js and others even Go (golang). A mix of JVM-based languages and dynamic languages will be great assets but as long as you're keen to learn, don't mind picking up new things and are interested in all aspects of building software systems, you'll fit right in.

Our mission is to build a new platform for services within the government. This project is one of the 25 transformation projects run by the Government at present.

Main responsibilities for the post include

- 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
- Sharing knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team, both developers and non-developers
- Define and deliver Continuous Integration & Delivery processes - specifically automating testing, image creation, software installations and configuration
- Regularly pair with other teams and empower them to use and improve tooling, and ensure practices are followed
- Bring a deep understanding of modern software delivery processes and tooling to the team

Skills required are

- Understanding of common web application architectures
- Experience configuring and managing Linux Servers for serving a dynamic website
- Experience debugging a complex multi-server service
- Demonstrate strong development skills, preferably language agnostic - the correct tool for the job should win
- Familiarity with network protocols - TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, etc.
- Installation and management of open source logging and monitoring tools
- Experienced in full automation and configuration management using Ansible, Puppet or Chef
- Deploying and configuring machines in a Cloud environment like VMware, Xen, AWS
- Understanding of application deployment strategies and continuous integration
- Working within an agile and product-centric environment
- Knowledge of the use of version control systems such as git
- Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques
- Knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems (such as Postgres, MongoDB, Redis)
- Working knowledge of load-balanced and highly available setups.
- Familiarity with the use of Jenkins CI to integrate automation and testing at every level
- Experience in supporting Java and Node.js applications among others.
- Familiar with penetration testing and intrusion detection systems.