Hello,
I've been asked to recruit a Linux Systems Administrator for one of our clients. They're based in London, but I know many folk who commute from Hampshire, so here's the spec:
Job: Systems Administrator Company: Wordtracker Location: Kentish Town, London, NW5 (excellent transport) Salary: £45K Culture: No tie. Agile development Hours: PAYE, 5 days a week (Monday - Friday), min 35 hrs, flexible but core office hours are from 11am - 5pm. Benefits: Free food on Friday! 23 days holiday & pension.
THE COMPANY
Wordtracker is a small company of around 15 people and our offices are based in Kentish Town, London. Roughly half of the people are developers mainly using: PHP, Ruby (and Ruby on Rails) and agile development.
We specialise in: keywords, data analysis, mining and extracting meaning out of online data. Our primary product is the keyword research tool, Wordtracker (http://www.wordtracker.com), which has been serving keywords to customers for over 10 years (since 1998).
THE CULTURE
Wordtracker has been using agile and extreme programming across our company since we started and as a result our roles includes pairing time with other developers and management. The style is informal (a tie free zone).
Most of what we do we haven't done before, so Wordtracker is very much a learning organisation.
THE CHALLENGE
Wordtracker is a large technically complicated environment, much of which has been built from scratch. In addition to maintaining a business-critical web front-end, there is a significant amount of batch processing and database work involved in keeping Wordtracker running. Most of this infrastructure is very highly automated. We need someone to join the team, assimilate quickly a deep and diverse body of knowledge, get their head around the system and work to improve it continuously.
THE ROLE
Personality:
* Open and communicative * Commercially aware * Comfortable working with Agile Methodologies
Experience:
* Fluent in sysadmin tools, including Puppet and Nagios * Experienced with version control (git) * Comfortable working with scripting languages, Bash and the Unix command line, particularly in a web environment * Open to working within iterations; estimating tasks; familiar with pairing * Experience with high availability systems
Platform:
* CentOS & RedHat (RH Certificate welcome)
Technologies:
* Web servers - (NginX, Apache, Passenger) * Virtualisation (Xen and VM Ware) * Databases (MySQL, Postgres) * Automation tools (e.g. Puppet and Chef) * Monitoring tools (Nagios) * Firewalls (iptables) * Storage (SAN, NFS, Samba) * Packaging (RPMs) * Mac support (no windows support needed)
If this interests you please contact me off list, ASAP.
Thanks,
S.
-- Stephen Nelson-Smith Technical Director Atalanta Systems Ltd www.atalanta-systems.com