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Brightbox is a Rails hosting company in the UK and we’re 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 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, UK (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.