Ogłoszenie numer: 1968384, from 2018-05-21
Praca.pl client
An innovative tech company have traditionally had a large-scale distributed agile development primarily running on the Windows platform. A major refresh of this platform is well underway over the last 18 months including a wholesale migration to AWS, the introduction of continuous deployment and the move to Linux for critical components and suitable applications. The goal of this work is to build a truly world class application and infrastructure platform that enables to meet its ambitious business strategy. Part of this capability undoubtedly includes building/utilising world class tooling for our large Development team, and we are dedicating an internal ‘cluster’ (Ransom) of between 5-6 people to this very work.
Senior Software Engineer - Tooling
Location: Wielka Brytania, Londyn
Job description
Department: Technology
Reports to: Engineering Team Lead
Team: Development (Ransom)
Salary: £70-85k pa
Purpose of the Role
An innovative tech company have traditionally had a large-scale distributed agile development primarily running on the Windows platform. A major refresh of this platform is well underway over the last 18 months including a wholesale migration to AWS, the introduction of continuous deployment and the move to Linux for critical components and suitable applications. The goal of this work is to build a truly world class application and infrastructure platform that enables to meet its ambitious business strategy. Part of this capability undoubtedly includes building/utilising world class tooling for our large Development team, and we are dedicating an internal ‘cluster’ (Ransom) of between 5-6 people to this very work.
This role provides an exciting opportunity to help shape & lead that strategy & DevOps culture in general, and to champion and enable its role as a differentiating factor in engineering excellence. We would also like to hire somebody strong enough to help coach a broader DevOps community
Candidates should be hands-on technical experts driven by the desire to build the best possible solution. The role requires a broad range of technical experience and strong problem solving skills. We would also like to hire someone who can mentor & inspire direct & non-direct reports
A development background ideally accompanied by process driven scripting experience are essential since robust, repeatable automation will form the basis of our continuous deployment and operational processes.
Requirements
Knowledge & Experience
- Strong AWS/Cloud Computing exposure
- Polyglot Software Engineer who makes technology choices on merit & fact
- Strong experience of continuous integration tooling such as Jenkins, TeamCity etc
- Hands-on scripting and automation skills (e.g. bash, Python, Chef, Puppet)
- NGINX configuration for high performance workloads
- Working with heterogeneous environments including some exposure to Windows environment ideally
- Independent problem investigation and resolution
- Any experience of Linux optimisation highly advantageous but not essential
- Experience training and mentoring Software Engineers
- Any experience of Load Balancing technologies advantageous
We offer
- 25 days holiday
- Life assurance
- Season Ticket loan
- Pension contributions
- Medical and dental insurance (subject to qualifying periods)
Remuneration
Od 20000 PLN