Brightbox Blog » sys admin http://blog.brightbox.co.uk Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:56:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Linux Sys Admin – Join the Brightbox team! http://blog.brightbox.co.uk/posts/linux-sys-admin-join-the-brightbox-team http://blog.brightbox.co.uk/posts/linux-sys-admin-join-the-brightbox-team#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:00:58 +0000 Louisa Parry http://blog.brightbox.co.uk/?p=775 We’re looking for an experienced and motivated Linux Systems Administrator to join our Technical Team here at Brightbox.

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

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
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All of us at Brightbox towers are very pleased to welcome George Hills to the team.

George, who joined us earlier this week, is an experienced Senior Systems Administrator and a networking expert.  He will be working within our Operations team to both manage our existing hosting infrastructure and develop our new “cloud” systems.

Welcome on board George!

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