Technical Operations Engineer


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First Utility

Listed on

5th May 2016

Location

CV34

Salary/Rate

£25000 - £35000

Salary Notes

Plus Excellent Benefits

Type

Permanent

Start Date

ASAP

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Summary:

The UK’s fastest growing and largest independent energy supplier is seeking a Tech Ops engineer to join their expanding team. First Utility is committed to helping customers reduce their energy bills through the use of innovative technology, by offering cheaper tariffs and campaigning for industry change. This opening comes at an exciting stage and offers a fantastic opportunity for you to be part of a team hungry to make a difference.

We are the ‘Growing Business Awards’ Growing Business of the Year 2014 and the only energy company to have been listed in the fast track 100 for four consecutive years

Role Overview:

Our exponential growth, particularly over the last three years, has seen us rebuild our systems to become config-managed and automate system monitoring. We have also optimised our systems to go from 50,000 customers to supporting nearly 1 million customers, but it doesn’t end there! This role comes at a time where further development with new technologies is taking place.

We are moving to a microservices architecture running swarms of applications using services like Mesos and Kubernetes with containers and service discovery; with this transition will come new and previously unexplored challenges.

We run in a largely OSS hybrid cloud environment supporting many systems and development teams as well as a production platform. Our aim is to make our systems better, faster and stronger.

We are looking for someone who will thrive in situations which can be ambiguous but offer the opportunity to utilise initiative, work autonomously and investigate unmapped areas.

Whilst independent working is central to the role, as territory is new to the team, discussion of obstacles and possibilities for solution delivery is encouraged.

Areas of specific responsibility:

* Finding new and improved ways of managing and monitoring systems

* Handling application deployments and automating them wherever possible.

* Keeping abreast of the changes in ‘Ops’ and ‘DevOps’ to see how we can use those changes to improve ourselves.

* Questioning how we do things and why, then offering a better way of doing them.

* Monitoring our existing systems for performance and availability, ensuring new systems will not adversely affect operations.

* Investigating errors and problems found in production and pre-production, getting to the root cause, applying fixes.

The desirable candidate will have:

* An active interest in technical advancements and knowledge sharing

* Passion for identifying and implementing improvements

* Excellent troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills

* Extensive experience in Linux administration

* Excellent understanding of HTTP protocol, load-balancing, reliability and scaling

The Benefits:

As well as a rewarding career, development opportunities and competitive salary, you’ll also enjoy 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), pension, option to purchase childcare vouchers, and become eligible for our staff energy tariff along with other great ad-hoc offers

We believe in putting energy into looking after our teams, so you’ll benefit from BUPA Private Healthcare, cycle to work scheme, a great working environment with relaxation areas to recharge your batteries and free soft drinks available all day. We also have "Fruity Friday" where fresh fruit is available every week for all employees.

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