Developer/Engineer

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Join a team of skilled and experienced technologists tasked with maintaining and enhancing our large scale, globally deployed VMware based platform. 
• Client's global virtualization plant is a large, globally distributed installation. It is centrally configured and managed by a suite of tightly integrated open source and internally developed tools.
• This includes a set of configuration components and many user space tools and libraries.
• We require an engineer who can develop solutions to ensure that this heterogeneous plant is easy to manage, configure and support ensuring a stable environment.
• The successful candidate will work on the development of our provisioning system and other tooling to support the platform. This provides APIs and a command-based user interface that allows system administrators, developers and application support personnel to build and manage the configuration of Virtual Machines.I-AS2

Must have skills:

• Strong Python and Perl programming skills, writing secure, testable, robust code.
• Experience of large (10k+ lines) collaboratively developed modular projects.
• Knowledge of SQL and database programming.
• Exposure to modern development tools and practices including git, jenkins, agile and continuous integration.
• Ability to collaborate with others on development, including code reviews, providing specifications, implementing specifications from others, and writing documentation.
• Expert knowledge of Linux, including familiarity with UNIX system calls.
• Experienced with backend server development for state based distributed systems which provide highly available API’s.

Nice to have skills:

• Experience working in a large, multi-national enterprise in any industry vertical, showing experience of communicating and collaborating in globally distributed teams.
• Experience of designing, implementing and supporting large scale production IaaS platforms, working with virtualization technologies preferably VMware.
• Effective troubleshooting skills across hardware, O/S, network, and storage.
• Knowledge of other programming languages, such as Erlang, Prolog.