Senior Engineer (Dev ops)
Location: GB, LND, Shoreditch
Department: Engineering:Dev Ops
Company profile: We build software for fashion retailers, to help them make the right commercial decisions about what to sell, and how to price it. Fashion is the 4th biggest industry in the world, so this is actually a huge problem economically, as well as environmentally for everyone in the world. The Guardian called us one of the 20 hottest London startups, and we're a quickly growing team, with a product used by some of the best retailers in the world, and we're backed by the smartest investors in Europe, the same ones who backed Etsy, Dropbox, ASOS and Net-a-Porter.
Description: About EDITDWe build software for fashion retailers, to help them make the right commercial decisions about what to sell, and how to price it. Fashion is the 4th biggest industry in the world, so this is actually a huge problem economically, as well as environmentally for everyone in the world. Both Mashable and The Guardian called us one of the 20 hottest London startups, and we're a quickly growing team, with a product used by some of the best retailers in the world, and we're backed by the smartest investors in Europe, including Index Ventures, who backed Etsy, Dropbox, ASOS and Net-a-Porter.The teamWe bring in the best candidates to meet our existing team, and we make hiring decisions together. Most of our engineering team has the same job title, "Senior Engineer", and we tend to operate by consensus and behave as peers among equals. One of our founders is an engineer, and has focused on making EDITD the place he wished he always worked.We use the best tools, and offer the best environment we can. We've got huge scope to innovate and we always welcome fresh perspective. You'll be able to make a bigger impact, and learn more in this job than any you've had before, we guarantee it.The jobYou will be the directly responsible engineer (owner) of deployment strategy, infrastructure, disaster recovery, monitoring, high availability and security.You will:work closely with the product and data teams, to help them deploy infrastructure and code.pair with, or work closely with other engineers to share knowledge and work collaboratively on how the products and platform work within the infrastructure.write software and scripts to deploy and manage our products and infrastructure.research, read, analyse and architect our approach to deployment, disaster recovery, high availability and security and the details of how we do so.be an opinion leader within the engineering team, and we'll look to you to set the tone for how we manage infrastructure and devops.But we won't make you:be involved in customer support, unless the infrastructure fails a customer.be involved in routine maintenance or ridiculous busywork.be an intermediary between a fighting ops and engineering team.
Requirements: EssentialA thorough understanding of the Internet, including technologies, standards and protocols.Strong knowledge of Unix.An ability to design and support robust CI, deployment and configuration management systems for service oriented environments.A thirst for knowledge.A good nose for reliability and safe engineering.A collaborative, friendly approach, good manners, a constructive viewpoint, and a team player.DesirableChef configuration management Python, Ruby, Perl or similar languagesUnix scriptingVirtualisation experience (Proxmox, VMWare, SmartOS, OpenVZ)Containerisation (Docker, Solaris Zones, etc)Software Engineering backgroundSystems administration or ops team experienceUnderstanding of software configuration issuesExperience with databases such as Postgres or MySQLExperience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis etc Experience with DRCS tools such as Git or MercurialExperience with unit testing and automated testing toolsAmazon Web Services (EC2, S3)Content-distribution networks (Cloudflare, Akamai, etc)TCP/IP networking (CIDR subnet masking, routing, VPNs etc)Network security and protocolsWorking with large data sets.
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