Rangespan, London, UK - Lead DevOps Engineer
You will be responsible for the availability, performance and delivery of our web services, as well as taking an active role in the development of the platform.
Examples of upcoming projects
- Architecting and scaling our AWS based infrastructure, planning and executing a migration to a hybrid cloud approach
- Automating the provisioning and configuration of new hardware and services
- Developing a framework for improved end-to-end testing
- Autoscaling our Hadoop cluster
- Performance tuning our Elasticsearch cluster
- Migrating existing data and web services into Cassandra
- Implementing an event-based messaging system on xMQ
- Developing a split real-time and batch data processing pipeline
Skills &amp; Requirements
- Experience scaling web services at both the software and hardware architecture level
- An intimate understanding of AWS best practices, Linux administration and configuration management tools
- Can demonstrate proficiency with, or have a willingness to learn Python
- Experience in getting the best out of: MySQL, Elasticsearch, Hadoop, Hive, Cassandra, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis
Perks
- Choose your own kit – just send us a shopping list before you start
- Dedicated R&amp;D time set aside to explore new ideas
- Flexible working arrangements, including support for working from home
- Cover for presenting at conferences
- Childcare vouchers
- Season ticket loans
- Friday lunch o’clock provided by Rangespan
- 5 weeks holiday
About Rangespan
Rangespan’s technology helps retailers expand and optimise their product range to more closely match online market demand. It includes data analytics that tracks and ranks more than 120 million products, to provide retailers with better visibility of the range that they don’t already offer. The company also operates a supplier integration platform that automates dropship supplier management and product set-up tasks, to reduce the costs of product range expansion.
Founded by ex-Amazon executives in 2011, Rangespan now works with hundreds of leading retailers and suppliers, including six of the UK’s 20 largest online retailers.
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