We’ve filled this position, but if your profile matches and you’re awesome(*) please send your CV and cover letter anyway.

In our industry having 99.99% uptime is the difference between getting payed by the customer and paying the customer. If you’ll ever work for a company that really appreciates your work – it’s us!

As a skilled systems administrator you’ll join one of the most competent web application teams in Europe (**) (here, here, here, here and here) to provide technical support and administration to our ever-growing number of machines.

You have experience in running high-traffic web sites. You know how to build a high performance and secure web application stack all the way from routers to servers to load balancers.

You listen well, produce quickly and you’re proactive with problems. You really know how to get things done, but more importantly you know when to say ‘No.’.

Your beard is trustworthy.

Working for a startup is fun and fast paced. If you haven’t experienced it before, it’s like no job you’ve ever had. If you’re full of energy you’ll quickly find that this is a wonderful place to let all that energy out. Our employees create their roles, instead of us creating them for them.

Key responsibilities:

• Work closely with engineering groups to design, build, and maintain systems
• Build and maintain a scalable storage cluster
• Write scripts to monitor and automate processes
• Troubleshoot issues with hardware, software, applications and network
• Document current and future configuration processes and policies
• System failure analysis and recovery

Knowledge and skills required:

• Experience in operations department of large-scale Internet service
• Experience with Linux/Unix/BSD
• Demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, security, storage, SQL databases, and memcache
• Practical knowledge of shell scripting and at least one scripting language (Ruby, Perl, Python)
• Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently
• Track record of practical problem solving

Valuable Additional Skills:

• Experience automating systems maintenance tasks
• Experience building fault tolerant, scalable systems
• Experience with Ruby and preferably at least one more language
• Experience with Ruby on Rails or another web application framework
• Familiarity with agile programming methodologies
• Experience with Amazon Web Services
• Experience with Hadoop and similar technologies
• Experience with Ruby, Java
• Experience with Ruby on Rails stack performance tuning

If you’re interested, contact jobs@burtcorp.com, and send us an updated CV, cover letter and examples of your work.

(*) Awesomeness subject to arbitrary review.

(**) Our development and operations offices are currently located in Gothenburg, Sweden. A EU citizenship or a EU working permit is required for this position.