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.

Posted 14 April 2008 by John Leach ::: Post a comment

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  1. 1 month ago Paul said:

    Recruitment agents should e-mail our special recruitment company email address: root@localhost.

    Gold.

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