Ashley Moran
2006-Aug-18 11:32 UTC
Infrastructure Developer and Administrator (Stoke-on-Trent, UK)
http://www.codeweavers.net/ Codeweavers is rapidly expanding company based in Stoke-on-Trent, ? England. ?We develop cutting-edge web applications, primarily for the ? finance and automotive retail sectors. ?We are migrating development ? to Ruby on Rails on an open source platform, and are in need of someone on-site to support the ?development infrastructure of our data-driven sites. The job can be broken down into three main areas (with the main ? technologies we use highlighted): - System administration (FreeBSD) - Data management (PostgreSQL, Ruby) - Development of support tools (Ruby) System Administration --------------------- We will be running our development and live servers for Rails apps ? exclusively on FreeBSD. ?The ability to install, maintain, patch and ? upgrade these is critical to us. ?We have implemented redundancy ? where possible, and are meticulous about security on the servers. ?We ? are looking for someone to maintain these high standards. Data management --------------- Our applications all rely on large amounts of external data that must ? be processed and managed. ?Also, we generate data feeds for numerous ? clients and new ones are requested frequently. ?A good understanding ? of SQL and relational databases will be essential in the long run. ? You will also have to administer our PostgreSQL servers. Development of support tools ---------------------------- There will be a strong programming aspect to the role. ?We try to ? allow our developers to focus on the applications they are producing, ? and to do this we need someone to maintain and develop the tools we ? use. ?The main aim of this is to facilitate: ? ?- continuous integration ? ?- test driven development ? ?- automatic deployment ? ?- a fully source-controlled process An understanding of object-oriented programming (ideally in Ruby) is ? essential. The job will be highly varied and call on a wide range of skills. ?We ? are looking for applicants with knowledge of as much of the above as ? possible. ?However, the job will be mentored, so if you are ? particularly strong in one area you will have the opportunity to pick ? up the rest. ?The ability to learn quickly is very important. In summary, the skills we require, roughly in order or importance, are: ? - FreeBSD administration ? - Ruby programming - Managing data in relational databases ? - PostgreSQL administration ? - Apache administration Please send applications to roland.schaack@codeweavers.net and copy me in.