Description
OO Perl Web Engineer - Web hosting
London
Investment Banking
£/day
Seeking an experienced Perl developer to join the engineering team, responsible for Unix web hosting clusters. Running a LAMP stack for web hosting Intranet and Internet-facing websites with an in-house developed automation layer and self-service configuration web portal, both written mainly in Perl. This area serves as the in-house web hosting service provider for the Bank's web development teams.
Required Experience:
* Direct experience of designing and managing large scale web server installations with complex configurations
* Experience in one or more of: C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Go, or Scripting experience in Shell and Perl.
* OOP (especially OO Perl), unit testing
* Experience working with Unix/Linux systems from Kernel to Shell and beyond, with experience working with system libraries, file systems, and Client Server protocols.
* Web hosting, caching and Proxy software and related technologies: Apache, volume hosting setups with Apache vhosts, HTTP, SSL, CGI, FastCGI
* Revision control systems (git, Subversion, branching and merging)
* Ability to reverse-engineer Legacy code, thorough testing approach when refactoring Legacy code
* Can build software from source; make, autoconf, etc.
* Networking experience with network theory eg TCP/IP, UDP, ICMP, etc., MAC addresses, IP packets, DNS, OSI layers, and load balancing.
Desirable:
* Perl modules: Template:Toolkit, CGI:Prototype, Test:More, LWP, Embperl
* Application and OS security
* Load balancers (F5 BigIP load balancers), software load balancing technologies (Apache mod_proxy_balancer, mod_jk)
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