[BNM] [JOB] Scalability Engineer/Senior Linux Systems Administrator

[David Pashley]

Job Description: We currently have a vacancy for a highly skilled
Scalability Engineer/Senior Linux Systems Administrator (permanent), to
be based at our offices in central Brighton, a stone's throw from
Brighton station.

The successful candidate will join a team of three existing Systems
Administrators responsible for the management and upkeep of our live
infrastructure, including around 75 servers, comprising of web, database
and email clusters. Our system has 1.7 million users and handles 5
million hits and 150,000 mail deliveries a day. They will also be
involved in recommending and implementing technologies to improve
scalability, performance, monitoring and reliability. The role will
involve liaising with Customer Support and Development teams.

We create on-line educational tools for school children. Our main
product combines social media ideas and technologies with educational
tools and delivers them in a safe and secure way suitable for young
learners.

Skills Range: The successful candidate would ideally be experienced
working with Ubuntu/Debian, Tomcat and MySQL in a large scale
multi-tiered, multi-server J2EE web application, although experience of
alternative technologies would be acceptable.

They must also have experience of Apache, Exim, TCP/IP, network security
and scripting (shell and, ideally, one of Perl or Python). They should
also have knowledge of working with large scale systems and modern
techniques for horizontally scaling web applications, including data
partitioning, caching strategies and distributed file storage systems.

Additional consideration will be paid to candidates with knowledge of
BGP and OSPF routing on Juniper (or Cisco) routers, VLANs, Xen, DNS
using Bind and PowerDNS, IMAP using Dovecot, server monitoring using
Nagios and Munin, Java, PHP, SSL and public key encryption, LDAP, Linux
virtual server, automatic server installation using debian-installer
pre-seeding and puppet, Debian packaging and server hardware.
This is an excellent opportunity to learn any missing skills in an
enterprise-level setting.

They need to be comfortable working in an environment of rapid
development, within a multi-disciplined technical team, and be expected
to actively contribute to the evolution of working practices and
processes.

Salary: £27,000 to £35,000

How to apply: If you feel you have the necessary qualities and skills
then please email us your CV with a short covering letter for the
attention of Sam Peters at the following address jobs at dbeducation.co.uk

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