Brightbox Blog » team http://blog.brightbox.co.uk Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:30:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Paul joins Team Brightbox! http://blog.brightbox.co.uk/posts/paul-joins-team-brightbox http://blog.brightbox.co.uk/posts/paul-joins-team-brightbox#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:18:45 +0000 Louisa Parry http://blog.brightbox.co.uk/?p=846 paulWe welcomed our latest addition to the Brightbox team a fortnight ago – Paul Thornthwaite.

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!

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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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I’m pleased to announce that Brightbox will be sponsoring the Scotland on Rails conference in Edinburgh (26-28 March 2009). Alan and Paul (and others I’m sure) have done a great job of putting together what promises to be a thoroughly engaging and stimulating schedule, in fact, leading them to sell out before the early bird offer was over :)

John, David, Rahoul, Caius and myself will all be travelling up to Edinburgh for the event – so please come and say “Hi”.

Of course, never fear, we’ll bring plenty of our famous t-shirts and stickers :)

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Hot on the heels of Caius earlier this month, we’re really pleased to welcome David Smalley to the Brightbox team. We’ve known David for some time now so it’s great to finally be able to bring him on board.

David brings a wide range of technical and sys admin skills to the team and will work closely with John, managing and developing our hosting systems and infrastructure. David is also based in Leeds, again highlighting the wealth of talent here in the North (and Leeds in particular).

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Caius is something of a legend in the Leeds Geek scene, even though he only moved to our lovely city a couple of months ago. The fact that most of us first “met” Caius through Twitter says something about his prolific and entertaining addiction :)

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We’re really excited to welcome Baz (a.k.a Rahoul Baruah) to the Brightbox team.

Baz is a gifted software developer with 10 years experience and a long time friend of Brightbox. Baz built a lot of our existing billing system and he’ll now help drive the development of the next generation of our systems as well as getting involved in all aspects of the business.

Rumours that Baz only took the job because we have a rather large whiteboard are untrue, although he does admit to a rather unhealthy fascination :)

]]> http://blog.brightbox.co.uk/posts/baz-joins-the-team/feed 1 Jobs at Brightbox – Join the team! http://blog.brightbox.co.uk/posts/jobs-at-brightbox-join-the-team http://blog.brightbox.co.uk/posts/jobs-at-brightbox-join-the-team#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:10:48 +0000 John Leach http://blog.brightbox.co.uk/posts/jobs-at-brightbox-join-the-team 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.

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