Senior Software Infrastructure Developer

Function: Infrastructure

Closing Date:

As a Senior Devops Engineer, you are a key member of the T&I Technology Video Back Office Platforms Development Team and focus on bringing the Liberty Global media products vision to life. You are involved in full development lifecycle of the microservices platforms from architecture, design and reliability engineering to deployment, monitoring and integration. We are looking for comprehensive experience in building and production support on engineering level of various high availability distributed systems. This is a key role for the Entertainment Backoffice platform development. Dedicated development teams build and release through their technology delivery and operations lifecycle. In that process they lean heavily on microservices platforms which provide frameworks for timely delivery of technically ready products and services that can be taken to market in countries across Liberty Global’s footprint.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Design, setup & maintenance of the core infrastructure that runs our online business
• Actively participate in planning and management of platform development process
• Lead continuous delivery and integration pipeline infrastructure development
• Supporting the whole platform, using technical analysis to improve the reliability and scalability of the whole system
• Working closely with the developers to create solutions to deploy and monitor their applications
• Regularly checking the monitor alarms, diagnosing the symptoms, analyzing the root causes and making preventive plans
• Write clean, well-structured and maintainable code when needed
• Explore new latest relevant technology, techniques, frameworks, tools, methodologies and processes

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

PREFERRED EDUCATION/ QUALIFICATIONS:

• University degree (Bachelor or Masters) in Computer Science, Science, Mathematics or equivalent or be able to demonstrate relevant knowledge
• At least fluent spoken and written English – ideally other European languages

SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• 4+ years of experience in working with Linux (Red Hat, Ubuntu or similar)
• Hands-on scripting and coding experience in working with Python, Ruby, Shell Scripting or similar
• C++, Java, and GoLang experience is a big plus
• Extensive network knowledge about TCP/IP protocol suites, network security, and experience with tools like Wireshark/tcpdump, mitmproxy, dig, curl or similar
• Production experience and understanding of cluster management systems like Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, Mesos
• Experience with web and HTTP proxy servers, i.e., Tomcat, Apache, Nginx, Varnish, Squid or similar
• Practical knowledge in virtualization and Linux containers, i.e., KVM, Docker, CoreOS rkt or similar
• Proven experience with configuration management tools, i.e., Ansible, Chef, OpsWorks, Puppet or similar
• Knowledge of automated deployment/continuous Integration tools, i.e., Maven, Jenkins, Fabric8 or similar
• Experience with commercial or open source monitoring systems, i.e., Nagios, Zabbix, Open Falcon or similar
• Knowledge of Elastic solutions (Elastic, Kibana, Logstash) and monitor data collection tools is a big plus
• General knowledge of software engineering practices including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, Agile development, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience with data storage solutions such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, Riak and message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ) is a plus
• Effective communication skills, ability to work well in a collaborative, team environment within sometimes tight deadlines is a big plus

SOFTSKILLS:

• Takes responsibility & feels accountable for own and team actions
• Is a strong team player
• Is confident and a credible influencer, able to command respect
• Is self-disciplined and enforces discipline within his/her teams in terms of processes and work ethics
• Must be able to work under pressure and be prepared to work outside normal working hours when necessary
• Ability to bring clarity to ambiguous situations and to act decisively
• Has a systematic, disciplined, and analytical approach to problem solving

Our Team is a part of the Technology & Innovation department of Liberty Global. We are working on the server-side components for different media & entertainment products like Horizon Go, Horizon set-top box as well as the new EOS set-top box. Range of potential involvements differs from real-time communication to big data processing and analysis. We value professional growth and development, proactivity and critical mindset. We are looking forward to seeing you here!

Here at Virgin Media, we help to create a digital world that makes good things happen: for our customers and the communities in which we operate. Across the UK and Ireland, we offer four multi award-winning services: broadband, TV, mobile and home phone. We’re in the process of growing all parts of our business so we can connect more customers to the things and to the people they care about. Our customers can expect the best from us. We’ve been recognised year after year for providing the fastest widely available broadband speeds, and our Lightning network investment means that 17 million homes and businesses will be able to access the benefits of our ultrafast fibre optic network. Virgin Media is part of Liberty Global plc, the world’s largest international cable company. Liberty Global serves a total of 27 million customers with operations in 30 countries; together we’re making good things happen. We’ve got a big happy team and we’re about to get even bigger. Check out what career opportunities we have for you and come join the Virgin Media family!