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PHP Software Developer with SysAdmin skills

Hammerkit is a cloud technology provider focused on serving the PR and marketing industry with high quality digital production solutions. We have recently secured growth capital and are seeking to strengthen our platform development and infrastructure team.

We are looking for a PHP Software Developer who should also have an understanding of the LAMP server stack. The main duties of the job role consist of web application development together with the design, specification and administration of our cloud-based server platform.

We are especially keen to nurture a technical team without artificial boundaries between engineering and operations; an environment where the employee's skills and responsibilities reflect the technical properties of the product itself, in the spirit of the current DevOps movement.

The applicant should have experience and good skills in:

  • Object oriented PHP (5.3) and web application development
  • MySQL databases
  • HTML5
  • JavaScript, jQuery and Ajax techniques
  • Zend Framework
  • Symfony Framework
  • Standard S/W development tools and practices, such as SVN, bug trackers, agile methods

Use and maintenance of Linux/UNIX OSs (Ubuntu/Debian or others); an overall "clue" about UNIX

  • Web server technologies such as Varnish, Apache, FastCGI, mod_rewrite, etc.
  • Mass hosting environments
  • Server clusters; High Availability
  • Amazon EC2 or similar cloud computing environments
  • Scalability in the aforementioned
  • Systems monitoring, e.g. Zabbix
  • Debian package management (.deb/APT)

 An understanding of the separation between production, testing and development environments

  • TCP/IP network administration; iptables, tcpdump, wireshark
  • Shell scripting (bash)
  • Domain registrations, DNS
  • SMTP servers
  • Virtualization technologies (VirtualBox, Xen)

We offer you a full-time job, competitive salary, a fun environment and challenging work.

For more information about this role please contact Robin Lindroos, Development Director, [email protected]