DevOps Engineer - Oxford

Oxfordshire  ‐ Onsite
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Description

DevOps Engineer is required for three month rolling contract based in Oxford.

The role will require a DevOps Engineer to Develop high-quality software to support our clients administrative processes

  • Provide expert leadership in the design and delivery of applications and systems for the web, mobile, and desktop

  • Deliver a highly efficient and effective software development methodology

  • Design and maintain new services that increase the effectiveness, impact and reach of the collegiate University

  • The Development Operations (hereafter DevOps) post within Software Solutions is intended to increase communication and collaboration between Software Solutions staff and the Operations teams in Technical Services (NSMS and SysDev).

The two areas within Software Solutions that the DevOps contractor will engage with are:

  • Web Development service - particularly the two CMS systems used at the University (Drupal and Terminal Four's Site Manager product)

  • Mobile and Web Application Development service

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Criteria

  • Education to degree level in a computing or IT related subject or able to offer the equivalent in terms of professional training and experience.

  • Proven in-depth experience with:

    • PHP

    • Python

    • Unix Shell Scripting

    • MySQL

    • PostgreSQL

    • Regular expressions

    • Apache Web Server (including mod_proxy, mod_rewrite),

    • Python application Servers (eg uwsgi)

    • SSO/authentication systems (preferably Shibboleth, WebAuth, BasicAuth

    • Provisioning Servers with Puppet scripts or similar

    • Writing deployment scripts (eg Fabric)

    • Deploying Python wsgi applications

    • Configuring and administering monitoring and continuous integration tools (eg Sentry, Jenkins)

    • Basic understanding of Unix IP Networking (editing host files, IP Networking commands such as nslookup, analysis of Apache log files)

    • SVN and Git

Desirable

  • Some experience of working in the higher education Sector or with higher education institutions

  • Proven experience of:

    • ODBC

    • ngnix web server

    • Drupal

    • Django

Interview will be conducted week commencing 5th January 2015

Start date
5th-12th January 2015
Duration
Three months Rolling
From
Square One Resources
Published at
12.12.2014
Project ID:
822349
Contract type
Freelance
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