Again, we’re sponsoring the event and have provided hosting for the website. Our technical director John Leach is also speaking at the conference – his talk “UNIX: Rediscovering the wheel” will take place in the Great Hall on Friday afternoon.

John, Jeremy & Caius will all be attending the conference so make sure you say hi – and grab one of our always popular t-shirts too!

Experienced programmer Paul was a beta tester for Brightbox back in our very early days and has now come on board as our new senior developer. He’ll be joining Baz and Caius working on our customer-facing control panel and our behind-the-scenes systems, and he’ll also take a lead in project managing all the development side of things.

Welcome to the team, Paul!

Brightbox is sponsoring the event and John will be speaking on Thursday about the wonders of UNIX – how its often forgotten tools can help with Ruby on Rails development and deployment.

They’ll also have some of our highly coveted tshirts and stickers to give away so if you’re going, make sure you track them down and say hello.

You’ll work closely with our Technical Director and Senior Sys Admin to run our virtual hosting platform, our Ruby on Rails hosting clusters, our network and our MySQL databases. A full job description is below.

The role is full-time and you can work from home, from our office in Leeds, or a bit of both (the rest of us do a bit of both).

Send a hello, a CV and salary expectations to jobs at the Brightbox UK domain. CVs should be in an open format, preferably PDF or plain text. Closing date is 24th October 2009.

As always, recruitment agents should e-mail our special recruitment company email address: root@localhost

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Linux Systems Administrator

Job Description

• Work under the Technical Director and with our other system admins to support and run:
• our customers’ Ruby on Rails hosting clusters
• our virtual hosting platform
• our MySQL systems
• our networking infrastructure
• our backup systems
• our network management and monitoring systems
• Provide excellent customer service and support
• Assist with technical sales
• Participate in an out-of-hours on-call rota
• Work from home or our office in Leeds, or a mixture of the two
• Occasional visits to our hosting data centres for new builds and hardware maintenance
• Update technical and process documentation

Qualifications

• 2+ years experience with GNU/Linux based systems
• Experience with web technologies such as NGINX, Apache & mongrel
• Experience with Ruby, Rails desirable
• Familiarity with Puppet, Virtualization, MySQL, PostgreSQL, LVM desirable
• Familiarity 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
• Able to commute to Leeds, UK for team meetings

You’ll work closely both with our Development and Technical Teams to develop our customer control panel and other backend systems. We’re looking for someone who, in addition to being a great coder, will be an integral part of the team and an organised and enthusiastic project manager.

The role is full-time and you can work from home, from our office in Leeds, or a bit of both (the rest of us do a bit of both).

Send a hello, a CV and salary expectations to jobs at the Brightbox UK domain. CVs should be in an open format, preferably PDF or plain text. Closing date is Friday 11th September 2009.

As always, recruitment agents should e-mail our special recruitment company email address: root@localhost

Job Description

• Work under the Technical Director and with our other developers to:
• Maintain and extend our “cloud” management systems
• Maintain and extend our billing system
• Build the front end for our next generation of deployment systems
• Help with application consultancy (advising customers how to design and scale their apps)
• Work on side-projects that help the community and promote Brightbox (such as isitruby19.com)
• Extract code to be shared with the community as open source/free software
• Invent and develop new ideas for services and products
• Project manage several concurrent projects
• Work from home or our office in Leeds

Qualifications

• Great Ruby on Rails coding skills
• A track record of implementing live RoR sites
• Experience of test driven development using RSpec
• Experience of deploying Rails using tools such as Capistrano
• Experience of project management desirable
• Proactive developer able to work independently as well as part of the team
• Suited to working in an agile, flexible environment
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Living within 2 hours of the UTC time zone

We’ve got shirts in a range of sizes – standard unisex Ts from small to XXL, and women’s shirts in Medium & Large.

If you’re a Brightbox customer and want to add one of these super-stylish charcoal garments to your wardrobe, send me an email (louisa @ brightbox.co.uk) telling me your details and what size you would like, and I’ll get one in the post to you as soon as possible.