== Introduction ==
OpenMarket is the largest and most reliable mobile transaction hub in
the United States and United Kingdom, providing connectivity and
application solutions for businesses running SMS, MMS, Voice, Video and
mobile payment services. All of our products are delivered on top of
our global application hosting platform - an in-house Linux environment
for transparently and reliably distributing Java and C++ applications
over multiple datacenters.
We are currently seeking developers to radically extend our application
hosting environment and its underlying operating system, virtualisation
and network infrastructure into a truly world-class cloud computing
platform.
== Description of Role ==
The candidate will be working as a Systems Engineer within OpenMarket's
Global Operations Team in the London office, building and extending all
aspects of our application hosting infrastructure and the administration
interfaces which expose it to the rest of the engineering organisation
and external clients. Typical work will involve customising and
extending low-level software and hardware systems to define our
infrastructure, writing Perl/Python libraries to manage it, and exposing
those management interfaces directly to users through sophisticated web
applications and command-line tools.
== Responsibilities ==
* Design and specification of our application hosting platform and
underlying infrastructure.
* Implementation, testing and instrumentation of the platform.
* Debugging, customising and fixing problems of in-house and 3rd party
components.
* Participating in the community development of open source components.
* Problem solving and troubleshooting within the platform.
== Skills and Experience ==
The candidate should be comfortable working in a world-leading, dynamic
and busy company as part of a small and tightly integrated team. They
should be able to help set their own objectives within a rapidly
changing framework and be persistent in pursuing them.
A solid understanding of software design, development methodologies,
operating systems, and the ability to work in teams or unsupervised on
projects of varying scope is essential. We are seeking candidates who
are exceptional systems-oriented developers with a strong appreciation
of systems administration.
Proven experience of Unix, Perl, Python, Bash, C, and SQL are highly
desirable. Proficiency in Linux kernel development, use and development
of open source systems, system level Linux programming/administration,
virtualisation, networking, distributed systems and web technologies
would be a distinct advantage.
You will need to be an enthusiastic Computer Science or Engineering
graduate from a top class university with at least 4 years of proven
experience in building robust and scalable systems infrastructure.
Interested? Please send applications to Paul Fuchs, HR Manager, paul.fuchs@openmarket.com
Source: Joel On Software