DevOps System Adminstrator (Linux) Hosted Systems

Job Description

We are looking for experienced DevOps Systems Administrators to join our Infrastructure team, to be based in Boston, MA, or in our London UK office. These are real DevOps hands-on roles combining Linux systems administration, network management and database administration.

The roles will suit those with a multidisciplinary skill set who are comfortable with infrastructure and configuration, but also happy to roll up their sleeves, write tests, debug, and ship features.

You will be working in an agile environment, collaborating with Development and other DevOps Systems Administrators to enhance, support and maintain the systems which run our SaaS (Software as a Service) applications (TIM Ideas and TIM Funds).

This will require a combination of research and development of new secure systems, upgrade of current Linux systems, networks, and associated hardware and software, and maintenance / support activities.

This role will make the most of your solid knowledge and experience across the full stack of data centre and application technologies including: Linux (Ubuntu), Apache, MySQL, MongoDB, Postfix, iptables, IPVS load balancing, VRRP, collectd, keepalived, conntrackd, hardware (particularly HP), scripting, Nagios, Graphite, KVM/LXC virtualisation, JMX, and IP networking (layer 2/3 switching/routing, policy based routing, etc). Our daily toolkit includes Ruby, Puppet, MCollective, git, and Jenkins.

This is not a position for pointy-clicky system administrators. You must be willing to pick up and learn anything as needed to get the job done and have sufficient confidence in you technical abilities and force of character to drive new solutions through. This is a small team and your ability to flexibly collaborate, to sometimes lead and sometimes follow, will be appreciated.

You are likely to spend time as a member of one of our product development teams: attending feature planning sessions, bringing requirements back to the Infrastructure team, participating in root-cause analysis and iteration retrospectives.

Essential Attributes / Skills:

• Excellent debugging skills
• Experience with using Puppet for configuration management and systems provisioning
• Installation, management and support of Java environments (Apache/modjk, Tomcat, etc)
• Experience with working in the data centres – racking, cabling, etc
• Experience implementing Disaster Recovery and High Availability
• Demonstrable commercial and practical experience in management of Linux operating systems
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills
• Ability to find and use new technologies to enhance our products

Ideal Attributes:

• Experience doing application development and testing in jvm languages (Java, Scala, etc)
• Experience with MCollective
• You've fixed bugs in open-source system administration tools

TIM Group generates new revenue for administrators, brokers, and other customers.  They trust us with their data and intellectual property, which we analyse, evaluate, and deliver to investors. 

Hedge funds, funds of hedge funds (FoHF)s, and more traditional asset managers use the information to identify market-beating opportunities, and to reward the contributors accordingly.

For seven years we have delivered market-beating analysis to investors in the best positions to take action, while ensuring that our contributors are duly compensated for their efforts.  We are trusted partners to both investors and service providers.