Description
Web Operations/Systems Administrator - Long Term Contract
Location: London
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 3 month rolling contract
Rate: £400 - £480 per day
NST are currently recruiting for a Web Operations Engineer/Web Systems Administrator to work for a Global Entertainment Company. They have operational centres in London and New York that provide shared Back Office' services, including Operations, Finance and IT to the company. They are a friendly, family' environment - around 200 employees in total, supported by small IT and Web Development teams.
The company develop and maintain around 150 websites across the group. The environment has grown organically and over time, different technologies have been adopted. Some of the websites are LAMP stack (Laravel framework), many of the smaller websites are WordPress and some are simple, non-framework sites. Other variants also exist (eg vue.js, Kirby, Expression Engine, Textpattern). These websites are currently hosted with Rackspace on dedicated Servers.
They are planning a major overhaul of their Development and Operational processes/tools, so that they can deliver major improvements in the way these websites are managed and monitored.
Role
We are looking for a capable and dynamic Web Systems Administrator who will be responsible for the migration of all of the active websites to new infrastructure (initially Rack Cloud with a view to a subsequent AWS migration as a second phase). This person will work closely with the DevOps engineer, who will be responsible for automated deployment of the underlying application stack (using tools such as Chef and GoCD).
Prior to migration the Web Administrator will:
They will then:
Throughout, the Web Administrator will be the primary technical point of contact for the company's web sites, primarily liaising between the Web Development team and IT team.
Must Have
Highly desirable
If you are interested in this position, or can recommend anyone else, please contact Artche Harrowell at NST Recruitment/(see below)