DEV OPS ENGINEER

As the Dev Ops Engineer you will be responsible for researching, implementing, maintaining and supporting operation's IT strategy. You will be contributing to the implementation of best practices within the IT Department. Whilst working very closely with the CTO and the Development team, you will be responsible for facilitating the latest technologies whilst maintaining the online gaming infrastructure up to the highest standards and availability. Key Responsibilities :

Maintain, configure and liaise with 3rd parties regarding network infrastructure and its components
Design, configure, install and maintain all hardware including, but not limited to clustered, stand alone servers, blade servers and SAN storage solutions
Support System architecture and its applications using open-source and proprietary technologies like Apache HTTPD, MySQL replication and/or clustering, Python, PHP, NoSQL databases, Memcache servers et al.
Setup Development, Staging and Production environments using best practices, including virtualisation, OS, management scripts, monitoring agents, etc.
Manage deployment systems and processes
Implement security and intrusion prevention strategy
Backup and Disaster recovery procedures
Implement monitoring and alert services

Wymagania

Technical skills: Comfortable configuring Cisco ASA firewalls, HP ProLiant switches, MSA Storage SAN, including vendor specific high-availability solutions
Strong network knowledge, including subnets, VLAN, routing, NAT
Excellent MySQL, Oracle or other RDBMS management, including different storage engines and high-availability solutions (native replication/clustering, percona, etc)
Excellent Linux administration skills with different distributions like CentOS, RedHat or Ubuntu, including basic services like Samba, iptables, postfix/sendmail, logrotate, etc
Experienced with different virtualisation solutions like VMWare, XenServer or KVM
Versed with Continuous deployment procedures and solutions like Fabric, Jenkins or Capistrano
Proficient with Automation software for server management ex. Puppet, Chef or Salt
Experienced with setting and using monitoring tools like Zenoss, Nagios orCacti
Experienced with using Linux command line tools to troubleshoot and analyze problems in a system
Skilled implementing backup strategies, data rotation and log analysis
Experienced with maintaining HP Blade enclosures, servers and SAN storage

Desirable Skills:

Proven experience in high-traffic and high-available systems;
Capable of writing complex bash, python, perl or other scripts
Comfortable with database configuration, fine tuning and different storage engines
Experience with message queue systems configuration (ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ)
Experience with administering NoSQL solutions such as Redis and MongoDB would be desirable
Working experience with Scalable Distributed file systems and big volumes of data handling would be considered a plus

Person specification:

A 'can-do' attitude
Capable of leading and motivating others
Committed team worker
Good communication skills
Ability to think creatively
Hard working individual with pride on his/her work

Education / Qualifications:

A computer science related degree
Vendor certificates related to the subject