We’re Hiring: PHP Developer with Linux / UNIX System Admin Skills

Maybe we’re hoping for too much, but we’re looking for one person to fill one vacancy and we’re hoping that that person can provide a slightly mixed bag of skills!

Specifically, we’re currently looking for a PHP developer with Linux system administration skills and would welcome applications from anyone with (in order of preference):

• skills and experience in both categories;
• an experienced PHP developer with a good handle on basic Linux administration from managing their own LAMP stacks; or
• a Linux system administrator with excellent scripting skills who would like to add PHP to their toolbox.

Please see our sneak preview post for details on what might qualify you as a junior or intermediary system administrator.

The job will entail typical Linux admin tasks and responsibilities (many of which can be learned on the job) such as:

• administrating multiple Linux servers;
• virtualisation with Xen;
• management of services including Apache, MySQL, Postfix, Dovecot (POP3, IMAP), SNMP, OpenVPN, NFS, SSH, Jabber, Quagga,etc;
• a lot of CLI scripting (mainly using languages of your choice from bash, Perl, Python, or preferably PHP);
• backup management; and
• assist in resolving systems outages out-of-hours.

From the PHP side of things, the following would rank you highly with us:

• a good portfolio of PHP applications previously developed;
• good experience with the LAMP stack;
• fluency with OOP design and an ability to write clean elegant code with depth (usability, flexibility, stability, scalability, and maintainability);
• use of MVC design where we use:
  • the Zend Framework (including Application and Controller);
  • the Doctrine ORM;
  • the Smarty templating engine.

A successful candidate would have or be:

• excellent communication skills;
• forward thinking and have good planning skills;
• excellent troubleshooting, judgment, and decision-making skills;
• independent worker with a high level of self-motivation and proven ability for self-study and learning on the job;
• flexible and dependable, On-call work and Out of hours duties may be required from time to time;
• a team player;
• be able to understand and meet customer expectations;
• good documentation skills.

CVs in an open document format (Open Office, RTF, HTML, PDF) can be sent to jobs (at) opensolutions (dot) ie.

Unsolicited CVs, phone calls and / or emails from recruitment agencies are not welcome.