Job Description

Would you like to manage hundreds of TBs of data, several thousands of cores and take advantage of 40 GBit network?

 

Our client provides is a leader in the Central and Eastern Europe in web hosting services.

• 25 years on the market
• 4.5 PB disk capacity
• 2,500+ servers
• 500m web hits per day
• 5m emails processed per day

The headquarters is in Stockholm, Sweden, but IT operations is based in Slovakia.

 

We are looking for a Web Hosting System Administrator to join the team 100% remotely.

Your job responsibilities will include:

• Web hosting administration: OpenResty, nginx, LXD/LXC
• Linux server administration with OpenStack, SaltStack, Ubuntu LTS
• Manage web cluster with 200+ servers, 400 CPUs, 30+ TB RAM, 400 TB RAW SSD
• Improve existing solutions, suggest improvements, discuss with colleagues
• Continuously keep learning and sharing insights and best-practices with your team
• Analyze incidents, identify root causes, and ensure they will not occur again

You would not need to be on-call because there's a dedicated team for this.

 

Requirements

Must-have's:

• Minimum 4+ years of experience working with web-hosting & virtual servers 
   
• Minimum 4+ years of professional experience working in web hosting company as System Administrator
   
• Experience with OpenResty, nginx, LXD/LXC, Salt stack. 

Nice-to-have's:

• Experience with Open Stack 

Benefits

• Senior team to support you
• Growth opportunities – join conferences and workshops to learn and speak
• Great culture – hackathons, trips

Our full technical stack includes:

• Hardware
  • 200 servers
  • 400 CPUs
  • 3200 physical cores / 6400 logical cores
  • 30+ TB RAM
  • 400 TB RAW SSD
• Configuration management
  • SaltStack
• Web hosting
  • Ubuntu LTS + nginx, apache, php, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, ZFS, LXC, LXD
• Email hosting
  • postfix, dovecot, Rspamd, Halon, IceWarp
• Cloud
  • OpenStack, OpenvSwitch, RabbitMQ, Docker, Docker Swarm, Redis, Galera cluster, gitlab CI
• DNS
  • KnotDNS, bind, PowerDNS
• Monitoring
  • Zabbix

Contract Terms:

 

• Freelance contract B2B (Permanent/Full-time with un-limited duration) with regular monthly payment/invoiced  
• Fully remote with Flexible working hours 
• Desired start date as soon as possible.