Location: Maidenhead, Buckinghamshire, UK. Occasional travel to BBC White City in London.
Core Roles/Skills: Perl software auditing, participating in Perl coding standards guidelines working group and Internet Operations steering meetings, system administration, monitoring (in-house solution/RRD), ad-hoc automation scripting.
BBCT provide and manage the BBC's online internet presence at www.bbc.co.uk and news.bbc.co.uk. I worked in a team of nine UNIX engineers who managed a large farm of Solaris Apache web servers, mod_perl application servers and Real streaming servers at multiple locations throughout the UK and US. My primary responsibilities were managing the core mod_perl application server farm and security auditing Perl code before deploying into production.
Other projects I managed included migration of mod_perl instances from Perl 5.004 and 5.6.1 to Perl 5.8.7, development and implementation of automated mod_perl server performance monitoring and analysis tools, and a multithreaded rewrite or an in-house Perl server fleet monitoring suite "statuschk".