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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