Infrastructure Developer

  • Location

    West Sussex

  • Sector:

    Information Technology

  • Salary:

    £35000 - £45000 per annum

  • Contact:

    Aleksandra Kontra

  • Contact email:

    Aleksandra.Kontra@volt.eu.com

  • Job ref:

    74005-ITENG-ALK_1555061300

  • Published:

    almost 5 years ago

  • Expiry date:

    2019-05-12

  • Start date:

    Asap

We are looking for Infrastructure Developer to join our client's team in West Sussex.

The successful applicant for this role will benefit from a deep breadth of experience across a variety of areas covering system administration, scripting, automation, deployment and maintenance.

Responsibilities:

* Work with various software development teams to support, maintain and enhance their build, test, and CRM systems;
* Responsible for both the development and IT administration aspects;
* Work with corporate IT department where necessary to deliver key infrastructure goals as business requirements dictate;
* Responsibilities may include working on the build system, test system & clusters, bug tracker, CRM system, license infrastructure, installer and external web site infrastructure;
* Be self-motivated and comfortable with independently maintaining, developing, and refactoring software written in Python and PHP, using modern object-oriented design techniques;
* Possess the ability to identify areas of improvement in existing systems.

Required skills and experience:

* Python scripting;
* Relational databases including writing, understanding, and debugging SQL queries (e.g. MySQL, Postgres);
* Experience developing server-side web applications in PHP or a similar language;
* Good knowledge of basic Linux and Windows system administration;
* Working knowledge of TCP/IP networking;
* Understanding of build systems (e.g. CMake, Autotools, Meson);
* Understanding of object-oriented software design, and basic design patterns;
* Familiar with the use of source control systems and bug trackers;
* At least basic knowledge of shell scripting and windows batch files;
* Good written English skills, and ability to write well-structured technical documentation.

Nice to have:

* Familiarity with configuration management tools such as Puppet or Ansible;
* Familiarity with continuous integration workflows;
* Expertise in analysing and debugging performance problems on Linux & Windows systems. Use of tools to analyse application behaviour and network traffic, e.g. Wireshark, tcpdump, strace, sysprof, oprofile;
* C/C++ development experience;
* Experience with High Performance Computing (e.g. Infiniband, MPI);
* Knowledge of high-performance filesystems (e.g. Ceph, Lustre);
* Knowledge of configuration of web, database, LDAP/Kerberos, NIS, NFS, and Samba/SMB servers;
* Knowledge of Docker/OpenStack/Kubernetes/AWS/Azure.


If you feel this is the right opportunity for you, please do not hesitate to get in touch!