Join us as a web operations engineer to help us deliver our web sites and applications with high availability and maximum performance.  Support and work with our developers by providing a cutting edge platform for our software, and a reliable service that our clients and web users can come to depend upon.  Our sites have previously won three Webby awards and other prestigious accolades.  You’ll be helping to manage a server farm of up to 50 machines and associated network appliances, engineering for fault tolerance, maximum scalability and performance and minimum environmental impact, while also dealing with around a dozen web applications running on the platform.

This page describes the webops engineer role specifically.  For general recruitment information and a guide to what working at Assanka is like, or for details of our other jobs, please see our main jobs page.

Responsibilities:

• Operational management of Linux servers running Apache, MySQL, PHP and associated technologies
• Building developer VMs and configuring new server platforms
• Testing, debugging and troubleshooting of platform level problems, identifying and isolating problematic software to assist the development team and systems administrators with fault resolution.
• Monitoring and optimising server and application performance
• Supporting the development team with deployment and production config for their applications
• Sharing on-call duties

Required skills

• Experience managing linux servers for high availability
• Server monitoring, Zabbix/Nagios etc
• Shared storage
• MySQL database deployment, monitoring and optimisation
• Proxy strategies for website acceleration
• Configuration management using cfengine or puppet
• Package management using RPM
• PHP, SQL and JavaScript to an advanced level
• Technical problem solving abilities

Desirable skills

• Data protection compliant backup strategy
• System performance tuning and capacity planning
• CCNA/CCNP

Unnecessary/undesirable skills

• Oracle or Microsoft technologies (we typically do not use many of either of these)

Salary

We offer salaries of £25,000 – £50,000 for webops roles

Application

Application for webops roles is via our online application form. Recruiters: please see our recruiters policy, and as much as we know you love the telephone, please don’t call us.