Description
Duties and Responsibilities:
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Helping to develop a modern automated integration platform and defining best practice and standards
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Management/Administration of Linux Servers, delivering a complex web app/Middleware integration stack
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Provide mentorship and Knowledge transfer to internal team members with the goal of the internal team being self-sufficient in a planned timescale.
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Asset and Configuration Management
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Assist with building a culture of continuous delivery and improvement, ensuring that key systems are regularly analysed, maintained and improved.
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Being involved in the wider development community, identifying good practices we can adopt and sharing our experiences.
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Building and configuring new server platforms and the automated tooling to do so
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Building Platform as a Service
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Building up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a Continuous Deployment environment.
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Develop approved technical standards, and the platform design and promote reuse, make progress towards the future state architecture, simplify the technical environment, and reduce the cost and timeframe of development.
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Ensure that new and updated platforms, products and transactions are thoroughly tested for performance, are able to handle specified load, and can be maintained over the long-term.
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Sharing knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team, both developers and non-developers
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Supporting development teams with configuring applications for deployment
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Testing, debugging and troubleshooting of platform level problems
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Management of a team of MDC Specialists
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Provide mentorship and Knowledge transfer to internal team members with the goal of the internal team being self-sufficient in a planned timescale.
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Once established the you will be supporting services on a 24/7 basis so some on-call duties may be required.
Specialist Skills and Experience:
Essential;
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Experience in Linux system administration/Management, preferably RHEL
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Experience configuring and managing/System administration of Linux Servers for serving web/integration development, testing and production services
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Outstanding communication skills. The ability to tailor communication both to business and technical audiences as well as to various roles and levels in the organization is essential. The successful candidate will demonstrate visual and written communication as well as verbal and white-board skills
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Experience with continuous integration, automated deployment, testing and the relevant tooling ie Puppet, Chef, Jenkins.
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Strong knowledge of factors influencing performance and ability to tune systems to achieve best possible performance and capacity
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Experience with Release and Configuration Management processes
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Installation and management of open source monitoring tools
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Experience managing and deploying on Cloud based platforms
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Experience debugging a complex multi-server service
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Familiarity with network protocols - TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, etc.
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Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques
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Excellent environment management, automation and Scripting skills
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Experience in leading a technical team and defining/improving service processes and procedures
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Strong problem-solving skills and experience debugging a complex multi-server service
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Experience sharing knowledge and excellent mentoring and coaching skills.
- Southend is only 50 minutes from London