Required: 3 days from Glasgow office

What will you be doing?

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, app Servers and a command-based user interface that allows system administrators, developers and application support personnel to build and manage the configuration of physical and virtual linux machines.

Skills that will help you in the role:

• 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 Back End server development for state based distributed systems which provide highly available API

Nice to have but not required

• 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:

We are committed to offering an inclusive recruitment experience. If you require accommodations because of disability or health condition, please email. This position is being sourced through our Outsourcing service line.