Description
Reports to
Head of IT Systems & Engineering
Purpose of the Position
To support the Hostelworld E-commerce platform. To architect and implement enhancements to key systems that underpins the Hostelworld business. You will be a key resource in ensuring that the E-commerce systems are capable of sustaining the growth and development of the business. Disciplines include: systems administration, database administration, systems architecture, systems implementation and project management
Main duties & Responsibilities
- Provide systems administration for the Unix based E-commerce systems
- Take ownership of issues to resolution demonstrating a positive/can-do approach
- Liaising with external service providers as necessary
- Designing, building and maintaining the next generation of the E-commerce systems
Essential Competencies:
- Excellent analytical/problem solving ability in a complex E-commerce system
- Flexible and adaptable in the approach to address customer and business needs
- Desire to learn about cutting edge technologies and apply them to our systems
- Ability to work under own initiative or as part of a team
Education & Experience
- A minimum of 2.1 in a Computer Science related degree or related qualification
- 7 plus years of IT experience
- 5 plus years in a global E-commerce technical systems administration role
- Experience with common virtualisation technologies
- Experience in supporting 24x7 E-commerce systems
- Experience with Open Source technologies
o Detailed Apache web server configuration/administration experience
o Detailed MySQL Database server administration experience
o Detailed Linux experience (Redhat, Centos, Scientific Linux etc)
o Detailed Networking experience
o PHP Hypertext pre-processor experience
Experience with designing/implementing enterprise monitoring solutions
Demonstrated experience in at least one of:
o PERL
o Shell Scripting
o PHP Hypertext pre-processor
o Ruby
o Python
Experience with ITIL/Lean Six Sigma a distinct advantage