The Financial Times

The Financial Times — Integration Engineer (Permanent)

Financial Times — Integration Engineer (Permanent)

About the company

Financial TimesThe Financial Times is a leading global business news organisation, with subscription-based journalism, data, and analysis. The integration team developed a bespoke cloud solution for automated deployment and configuration of web-based systems to the internal VMWare estate.

At the Financial Times I was part of the integration department as a Puppet/Ruby developer in a DevOps team. My main responsibility was to develop a bespoke cloud solution for the automated deployment and configuration of web-based systems and technologies to the internal VMWare estate. I programmed Puppet manifests, wrote scripts to deploy web, application, and database servers, and automated monitoring and logging.

Role Location Period
Integration Engineer United Kingdom Jan 2012 – Dec 2012

Key responsibilities and skills

  • Puppet — Wrote manifests and scripts to deploy web, application, and database servers and to automate monitoring and logging.
  • Web and application servers — Configured and developed Apache HTTPD, Apache Tomcat, and Weblogic.
  • Release & repositories — SVN, CVS, Anthill Pro for release management and code repositories.
  • CMS — Contributed to the configuration and development of the Methodé CMS.
  • Support — 3rd line support for production online systems; 2nd line for pre-production.
  • Collaboration — Worked with other IT teams to meet integration requirements.
  • Scripting — Puppet, ksh/bash, Perl, awk, sed, Ruby.
  • Systems — UNIX administration on Solaris 8 and 10 and Red Hat Linux; JetNexus web accelerator configuration and optimisation.

Delivering a bespoke cloud solution for automated deployment across the FT’s VMWare estate and supporting critical online systems.

Technologies

Category Technologies
Config & automation Puppet, Ruby, ksh/bash, Perl, awk, sed
Web & app servers Apache HTTPD, Tomcat, Weblogic
Repositories & release SVN, CVS, Anthill Pro
Platforms Solaris 8/10, Red Hat Linux
Other Methodé CMS, JetNexus, VMWare

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