Linux DevOps Engineer

Amdas ,
London, Greater London
Salary: From £35,000 to £75,000 per annum

Overview

A FinTech Top 50 company for the last several years developing cutting edge software used within the finance services industry is looking for a Linux DevOps Engineer to join their team. This start up is looking to double in size in the next year and with no investment needed due to unprecedented demand for the product and profitable yearly turnover - now is an excellent opportunity to join one of the start up stories of the last few years in the FinTech Sector. Based in the heart of London in Finsbury and with a competitive salary, exceptional working environment and social calendar - our client is determined to hire the best and brightest with an interest in working with one of the FinTech industries brightest new lights. Working together daily with a close team of ambitious engineers using methodologies like TDD, Kanban, pair-programming, and CI/CD. Building a fault tolerant distributed system is certainly an interesting challenge - one which we hope you will enjoy Job Description: Linux Orchestrator "For people who would rather spend time trying to automate a process rather than do it again manually…. My Client is looking for a master orchestrator for our service-oriented system, someone who likes to play in the murky backwaters of Linux, vim-ing and bash-ing their way around problems. You will definitely know too many Regex jokes and memories of awk things sed. Ideally, you are on track to be: Able to conduct an orchestra of Linux micro-services as if it was Beethoven’s 5th. Experience using Docker and related tools to build, manage, update and monitor robust services in containers on clouds A polyglot programmer who is happy to work in multiple languages to get the job done best. We like Python Able to automate and improve Agile, TDD and CI processes to deploy to cloud providers. We use Gitlab and Jenkins Able to tune and configure a SOA infrastructure of open source tools to optimize for performance, reliability and stability Knowledge of TCP, HTTP, iptables, ssh tunnels, nginx configuration, nagios, cacti, XML Appreciation of the phrase "rsyncing without strace" This may sound like DevOps, SysAdmin or just startup engineer. The reality is that this is all of those things, and as a ground-breaking FinTech company they are solving problems that haven’t been solved before. So they don’t expect you to have all the answers, but they do expect you to be the kind of person that can find them. This job was originally posted as www.totaljobs.com/job/89833934