Perl Engineer – London – Investment Bank recruitment
Perl Engineer - London - Investment Bank
Investment Bank in London looking for an experienced Perl Developer to join an engineering team working on Unix web based clusters.
This team is running a LAMP stack for web hosting intranet and internet-facing webistes with an in-house developed automation layer and self-service configuration web portal, both written mainly in Perl.
The ideal candidate will have web hosting, Dev/Operations or ISP experience developing system automation infrastructure for large scale, globally distributed web hosting clusters and developing Perl-based web applications.
The role is primarily Perl development, with some degree of providing third level support for escalations from our operations and support team.
Successful candidate will have strong experience as a Perl engineer with skills encompassing web servers; a Computer Science or equivalent level Bachelors degree; experience in web hosting systems admin or web development in a large production environment and significant development experience.
You must have Perl, SQL and Shell Scripting, command line level UNIX / Linux skill, revision control systems and ability to reverse engineer legacy code.
Desirable skills would be:
• Perl modules: Template::Toolkit, CGI::Prototype, Test::More, LWP, Embperl
• Application and OS security
• C, PHP, Ruby + Ruby on Rails
• Tomcat, MySQL, Oracle, NFS, Ngninx, Memcached, Squid
• Suse Linux Enterprise Server; Solaris
• Experience with software development life cycle and change management in large enterprises
• Networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS
• Load balancers (F5 BigIP load balancers), software load balancing technologies (Apache mod_proxy_balancer, mod_jk)
• Experience with a system automation framework (Cfengine, Chef, Puppet)
• System monitoring
If interested please send through an up to date CV detailing availability and salarye expectations through to Jamie Peters at jpeters@westbourne-partners.com