Linux Engineer

About the role

team.blue is seeking a Linux Engineer to join our Infrastructure Engineering Team in Leiden.

This is an influential role that demands a high level of creativity and a genuine passion for new technology and methods. Working in a team of highly-skilled technologists, you will be responsible for maintaining the systems that ensure our operation runs 24/7/365. The applications we support must be highly reliable, highly scalable, and take full advantage of our platform and global reach.

team.blue prides itself on the creative use of technology. As the boundary between the application-layer and platform-layer becomes increasingly blurred, this role is pivotal and demands a broad technical understanding and passion for the Hosting industry.

The role

• Be part of the Infrastructure & Engineering team deploying and maintaining highly reliable, highly scalable systems and applications.
• Provide support, exception handling, and mentoring for operational and development teams regarding Linux systems, related applications, and configuration management.
• Create, design, deploy, improve, and maintain storage systems and related applications for our DTAP street.
• Define, improve, and implement internal processes and standards.
• Collaborate with other departments to translate needs into solutions.
• Manage tools through their entire life-cycle, including documentation and version control.
• Facilitate Agile work streams for the technical teams.
• Demonstrate a bias towards open-source technologies over third-party, proprietary solutions.
• Represent the business on open-source projects you are passionate about.

Your profile

• Expertise in provisioning techniques (e.g., Puppet, Ansible).
• Ability to expertly manage Linux servers (mostly Ubuntu & FreeBSD binary compatible).
• Experience with distributed storage systems such as OpenZFS and CEPH.
• Proficiency in virtualization and orchestration through QEMU and Libvirt.
• Experience with container management and deployment (using Kubernetes and Rancher).
• Familiarity with enterprise applications (such as DNS/BIND, LDAP, GIT, Elastic stack, Jira, etc.).
• Knowledge of cloud and scaling tools, load balancers, RabbitMQ, etc.
• Experience with database technologies (MySQL, PostgreSQL, ETCD, InfluxDB).
• Understanding of IP networking infrastructure and security.
• Ability to automate tasks through scripting (Bash or Python).
• Experience owning logging and monitoring systems (Icinga, Grafana).
• Strong interpersonal communication skills.
• Familiarity with physical and software-defined networking techniques is a plus.
• Keen documenter and contributor to team.blue's continuous improvement.
• Excellent written and spoken English.