Linux Systems Administrator - Join the Brightbox team!

We’re looking for an experienced and motivated Linux Systems Administrator to join our join our small but highly productive team here at Brightbox.

Main responsibilities

Support and run:

Brightbox Cloud, our “infrastructure as a service”

our networking infrastructure

our customers’ managed clusters

our backup systems

our network management and monitoring systems

Proactively find ways of improving our services and systems

Provide excellent customer service and support

Assist with technical sales

Participate in an out-of-hours on-call rota

Update technical and process documentation

Help design and build new services and systems

You have an insatiable desire to understand things, to break them apart and to fix them. You are continuously looking for ways to improve things. You are enthusiastic about some technologies and vocalise your reasoned dislike for others. You have strong opinions and stand by them when it really matters, but are willing to compromise when it doesn’t. You don’t take yourself too seriously and are comfortable with others reviewing your work. You love what you do.

Essential Skills and Experience

Strong experience with GNU/Linux based systems

Strong experience with web technologies such as NGINX, Apache

Experience with common Internet services such as DNS and SMTP

Experience working with customers

Ability to work both independently and as part of a team

Keeps up with new technologies and developments

Good written and verbal communication skills

Experience with conventional database systems, like MySQL or PostgreSQL

Familiarity with distributed cloud infrastructure concepts

Desirable Skills and Experience

Familiarity with configuration management systems like Puppet

Familiarity with Ruby

Familiarity with virtualization technologies such as KVM and Xen.

Familiarity with storage systems like GlusterFS, Openstack Swift

Familiarity with modern database systems like Elasticsearch, Riak, Redis

Familiarity with router and switch configuration

Familiarity with the open source development cycle (reporting issues/contributing upstream etc.)

Our team

We’re system engineers and developers. We’re obsessive about great user experience and clear documentation. We’re passionate about high availability, performance and consistency, though not all at once ;). We’ve coded seriously in Ruby, C, Delphi, Ada, C++, Python, Amiga AMOS, PHP, Java, Objective-C, Pascal, Eiffel, Basic, Perl, Informix 4GL, Javascript and Bash. We use GNU/Linux and OS X. We take our work seriously but we have fun.

Like our systems, our teams are geographically distributed, communicating in real-time throughout the working day using our private Jabber conference or phone calls. We manage and track our work with Redmine. We’re a lean organisation – you’ll have direct access to leadership as well as other teams. Our development, engineering and operations teams all work closely together which shortens the feedback loop and means we get things done better.

Location

You can work from anywhere in the world, but you need to be able to work mostly during standard UK business hours. If you’re nearby, you can choose to work from our office in Leeds.

Salary

Salary is in the range £25,000-£40,000 depending on experience.

1st November 2013.

How to apply

Send a hello email, a CV and salary expectations to jobs at the Brightbox dot com domain. CVs should be in an open format, preferably PDF or plain text.

We do not deal with any recruitment agents. If you’re a recruitment agent and insist on contacting us anyway, you can email jason.null@brightbox.com.