Vacancy Details

Consultant: Matthew Geppert

      Ref: Linux Engineer_1340792261

Job Title: Linux Systems Engineer – London – up to £50,000

Sector: Web / Online

Location: UK, London

Town / City: London

salary range: 40,000 - 50,000

Job Type: Permanent

Job description:

Linux Systems Engineer - London - up to £50,000

This award winning organization are rapidly expanding and have 2 openings for a Linux system engineer to work in their fantastic offices in West London where they operate a number of Linux based systems and has co-located hosting facilities in Melbourne. Its web server infrastructure is based on a clustered environment of Linux servers. You will be responsible for the day-to-day operation of a number of systems including the public-facing high-traffic websites, administered from the head office.

Your role will be to configure and install operating systems and applications on these servers and to maintain these systems to achieve a high level of availability and performance, working alongside the software development team in London.

Essential:

* Demonstrated mastery in administering multiple Linux servers
* Strong knowledge of web related technologies: apache, HTTP, HTML, application servers including Tomcat, MySQL, HAProxy, MongoDB, Memcached
* A solid background in automated provisioning
* Experience with AWS
* Solid command of system automation frameworks and concepts
* Prior experience building out and scaling at least one significant production app's infrastructure
* Strong knowledge of Networks, security, firewalls, load balancers, DNS and other infrastructure components
* Excellent data analytics skills
* VMWare or other virtualisation experience

Desirable:

* RedHat Certified Systems Engineer (RHCE) qualifications
* Have supported a software development team successfully
* Experience with Monitoring tools and capacity planning tools such as Nagios and Cacti
* Previous experience in operating an Linux environment running commercial web applications
* Experience with High Availability clustering
* Experience with hardware HTTP load balancers
* Basic knowledge of Microsoft Windows and Active Directory

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