DevOps Software Engineer

DevOps Software Engineer for Citrix (XenServer Engineering)

Essential Skills

- Degree Educated

- Significant experience in maintaining & running complex software systems

- Significant experience in source code management, especially DVCS

- Build Systems

- Linux Administration (mainly Debian)

- GNU Make etc

- Bash Scripting

- Build Orchestration, Jenkins or Hudson

- Software Development

- Python

- Mercurial or Git

Desired Skills

- Virtualisation especially Xen or XenServer

- Twisted Python

- GitHub, BitBucket

- Jira, Confluence & Crowd

- Good working knowledge of general networking technologies

Objective of Position

As a DevOps Engineer you’ll be part of the team that delivers all the tools and services that facilitate and support Software Development activity for the entirety of XenServer Engineering. DevOps maintains all the revision control tools and services and the Continuous Integration systems for XenServer Engineering. DevOps runs the issues tracking systems, the wiki, their integration with the QA team and other engineering systems. Many other teams outside of XenServer Engineering use DevOps tools as well. This is a significant enabling role where you can have an impact on the delivery of 100’s of Engineers, Dev Managers, Project Managers, and QA across many teams in Citrix.

Personal Traits

- A team player possessing a strong desire to enable engineering effort across the whole company

- Customer focused, keen to deliver quickly and to a high standard

- Self-driven with a strong desire to learn new technologies

- Strong communication skills both written and verbally

Software Engineer – DevOps

Citrix's XenServer team has an opening for a Software Engineer in the DevOps team, to provide hands on technical contribution to the wide array of tools and services DevOps maintains and delivers to support and facilitate development effort across the whole of XenServer Engineering and wider. Citrix is working hard to keep XenServer as the leading server virtualisation platform - typically chosen by companies wanting to power the next generation of desktop virtualisation and cloud services.

XenServer is the flagship commercial release of the open source Xen hypervisor project which was originally developed by in the Computer Laboratory of Cambridge University and the XenServer team was originally a start-up spun out from the university. So as you might expect, the job is based in Citrix's modern research and development centre on the Cambridge Science Park. We continue to maintain many contacts with the university and other hi-tech companies in Silicon Fen, so you can be assured of a vibrant working atmosphere full of interesting people.