Web Infrastructure Engineer

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Spring Technology's client, a public sector organisation, are currently looking to recruit a Web Infrastructure Engineer for an initial 3 month contract on a rate of £350-400/day (inside of IR35) based in Edinburgh.

Responsibilities:

* Implement, administer and optimise production, test & development web infrastructure for each of the organisation's systems.

* Implement monitoring for the organisation's infrastructure and systems to ensure early detection of events including unusual activity, reduced capacity or system failure.

* Collaborate with release engineers to operate a robust and efficient release management process that enables continuous delivery.

* Operate a reporting solution that allows the recording, analysis and reporting of operational data for organisation's systems at both application and business scope.

* Work alongside stakeholders to define appropriate service level targets for the organisation's systems, then monitor, maintain and report on the agreed service targets on an on-going basis.

* Actively identify risks, impediments and inefficiencies within the organisation's infrastructure and suggest improvements to mitigate or resolve them.

* Operate the infrastructure support helpdesk ensuring that infrastructure tasks and issues are logged, prioritised appropriately, investigated and resolved in a satisfactory and timely manner.

* Execute an on-going program of hardware and software upgrades, preventative maintenance and single point of failure analysis to maintain the resilience and efficiency of the organisation's infrastructure.

* Maintain relationships with the IT team as well as 3rd party software vendors to facilitate the negotiation of contracts and the timely resolution of support issues.

* Install, administer and optimise the services required to support the software development lifecycle, including version control, task tracking and code review.

* Leverage automation, where appropriate, to improve usability, productivity and consistency of the web operations function.

* Install, maintain and leverage appropriate tooling to support web operations and infrastructure activities.

* Contribute to the infrastructure technology radar and support the introduction of new tools, techniques and platforms through a hold, assess, trial, adopt lifecycle.

Requirements:

* Significant experience of web infrastructure as well as the operation and support of high traffic commodity services, web applications and platforms.

* Proficient in deploying, administering, securing and optimising a web application system architecture including: web servers, web accelerators and reverse proxy caches, Linux operating system, Java web applications, Relational, Document and Graph based database servers.

* Proficient in administering, securing and optimising computer networks including the following technologies: TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, SSL.

* Experience in the delivery and maintenance of system quality attributes, in particular security, performance, compatibility, resilience and scalability.

* Proficient in system monitoring, capacity planning, business continuity, system support and failure diagnosis.

* Familiarity with web systems architecture, deployment & operation within both traditional data centres as well as was cloud environments: Puppet, Jenkins, Vagrant, Packer.

* Experience in architecting and deploying modern web applications in the Amazon Web Services environment, including: EC2, Route53, VPC and networking, ELB, RDS, S3.

If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch with Claire Lorden OR Chris Wallis on 0131 524 9027 or send your CV through to [email protected] OR [email protected]

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