Jobs at Brightbox – Join the team! 14 Apr 08
Brightbox is looking for some new techie people to join the team. Depending on your skills you’ll be:
- managing and developing our hosting systems
- developing our free software Rails stack, based on Ubuntu
- supporting our Rails/Merb hosting customers
There are full-time and part-time roles available and you can work remotely from anywhere in the world or at the office in Leeds (or a bit of both). We’re still a small team so we need people with pretty diverse skills and, more importantly, an ability to learn new ones. Overall, the following special powers are necessary:
- enthusiasm
- problem solving
- communication
- great written and spoken English
Regarding particular skills, you’ll need experience with some of the following:
- Coding: Ruby, C.
- Ruby stuff: Rails, Merb, JRuby
- Typical Rails/Merb deployment stuff: Mongrel, Capsitrano, Monit, Memcached
- Web servers: NGINX, Lighttpd, Apache
- Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL
- Clustering: RedHat Cluster Suite (CMAN, CLVM, GFS), Heartbeat
- Virtualisation: Xen
- Storage: Linux LVM, Linux RAID, AoE, Bacula.
- Network Filesystems: NFS, Samba, Glusterfs
- OS: RedHat Enterprise Server / Centos 5, Debian / Ubuntu
- RPM / Deb packaging
- Advanced Linux Networking: Routing, Bridging, Netfilter, QoS
- Security: Technical auditing (Nessus, NMAP), Policy development.
- Flame retardant killer robots
Send a hello, a CV and salary expectations to jobs@brightbox.co.uk. CVs should be in an open format, preferably plain text or PDF.
Recruitment agents should e-mail our special recruitment company email address: root@localhost
Closing date for applications is 16th May.
