Lights, Camera ... Perl! - Mid-Level Perl / Ops for the movies (London UK) (onsite), London, UK

Online URL for this job: http://jobs.perl.org/job/20838

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Posted: June 19, 2017

Job title:
Lights, Camera ... Perl! - Mid-Level Perl / Ops for the movies (London UK)

Company name: Perl Jobs by Perl Careers

Location: London, UK

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Hours: Full time

Onsite: yes

Description:
There’s Bad CGI, and there’s Good CGI. Bad CGI involves your web-server
standing up new perl processes for incoming requests, where Good CGI makes
the films you watch magical (think: Jar Jar Binks). This job – unusually
for Perl – involves Good CGI.

Client is a world-famous digital effects
company. Where the digital magic is done in more traditional CGI software,
the glue that holds everything together is Perl. Server management, moving
digital assets to be in the right place at the right time, prodding the
giant compute farm – Perl is a central part.

There’s a big backlog of
interesting and rewarding tasks that will help the company run ever more
smoothly. For each you’ll need to decide whether to bring your considerable
Perl skills to bear, or whether extending the company’s nascent SaltStack
and Sensu installs is the right move – existing experience would be a nice
to have, but by no means essential.

Fundamentally, you’ll come across
interesting problems that you won’t find elsewhere, and that’ll stretch you
more than building yet another MVC webapp; the company has tens of
petabytes of onsite storage, several thousand compute nodes, and runs Linux
on everything they can.

Role would be well suited to either Perl
developers who fancy something a bit different involving automation and
large-scale deployments, or a sysadmin with strong Perl.

Desired skills:
Perl

Ops Experience would be useful

Website for more information: https://perl.careers/jobs/lights-cameras-perl/

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/20838#contact