Perl Engineer, Netcraft

• A strong background in modern Perl software development
• Experience working with SQL databases (such as MySQL or MariaDB), including schema design for both OLTP and OLAP workloads, and writing and optimising complex queries
• Familiarity with common Unix command line tools (such as sed, grep, and AWK) and shell scripting
• Comfortable packaging software using a Linux package manager, such as RPM or dpkg
• Comfortable using configuration management tools, such as Puppet
• Experience using Amazon EC2, S3, RDS, and SQS, or equivalent services at other cloud providers
• Experience with version control systems, such as Git, and CI/CD pipelines
• A good understanding of computer networking technologies, including TCP, IPv4, IPv6, DNS, HTTP, and TLS
• Good written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Desirable

• We’re searching for a Perl Engineer to join our growing engineering team
• Report to one of our Engineering Team Leads and work on the backend of our broad range of Internet exploration and cybercrime detection and disruption services
• Designing and developing features and improvements to our products, while taking non-functional requirements like performance and security into account
• Testing and documenting your work to a high standard
• Taking responsibility for system maintenance and stability, and putting measures in place to prevent the re-occurrence of incidents
• Identifying scaling bottlenecks and resolving them, while being conscious of running costs
• Collaborating with other engineering teams to ensure services you own are well-integrated with their services
• Working with cross-functional stakeholders
• To help propose, design and implement
• Solutions to meet business needs