Previous vacancies

Linux Systems Administrators

• Work under the Technical Director and with our other systems admins to manage:
  • our virtual hosting platform
  • our MySQL and PostgreSQL systems
  • our networking infrastructure
  • our backup systems
  • our monitoring systems expansion
• Provide customer service and support
• Participate in an out-of-hours emergency on-call rota
• Work from home or our office in Leeds
• 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 / 5+ years for a senior role
• Experience with web technologies such as NGINX, Apache, HAproxy
• 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
• Project management experience for Senior Sysadmins
• Good written and verbal communication skills

Ruby Developers/Senior Developers

Work under the Senior Ruby Software Engineer and with our other developers to:

• Maintain and extend our cloud management systems
• Maintain and extend our billing systems
• Work on side-projects that help the community and promote Brightbox
• Extract code to be shared with the community as open source/free software
• Invent and develop new ideas for services and products
• Senior Developers would also be expected to manage several concurrent projects
• Work from home or our office in Leeds

Qualifications

• Great Ruby and Rails coding skills
• Experience of test driven development using RSpec
• Experience of deploying application using tools such as Capistrano
• Senior Developers would ideally also have experience of project management
• 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

Javascript developer

You’ll ideally need experience with the following:

• JavaScript (duh)
• Jasmine testing framework 1.3 (+upgrading to 2.0)
• Ruby
• Rails 4
• Backbone.js, 0.9.x (+upgrading to 1.x)
• Backbone plugins
• OAuth 2.0
• Websockets
• Faye
• User interface design

The role is very much focused on front-end Javascript but basic experience with Ruby and Rails is probably necessary. We do have Ruby developers on-staff to support you with that though.