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== 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 systems has 1.7 million users and handles 5 million hits and 130,000 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. == 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). You 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. You 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: == 27K - 35K depending on experience. == About DB Education: == DB Education Services Ltd is a leading provider of Learning Platforms for the UK Schools market and a supplier of software products to the Education and Local Authority market. See Products page for further details. We supply Regional Broadband Consortia (including the VLE contract for the leader in this market, LGfL), LA’s and Schools across England and Wales. All products are designed and written from our base in Brighton, the UK’s leading e-learning city, by a vastly experienced team of developers. DB designed the UK’s first large scale Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), the first specialist Primary School Learning Platform for a LA (the much acclaimed Starz programme for Cambridgeshire LA) and now the first Learning Platform, DB Primary, designed solely for Primary Schools. == Additional Information: == Previous applicants need not apply. Strictly no agencies please! We really do not recruit via agencies. No, really. == How to apply: == If you feel you have the necessary qualities and skills then please email us your CV with a short covering letter (including salary expectations, and where you found this job advertisement) to j...@dbeducation.co.uk. -- David Pashley da...@davidpashley.com Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/