System and Network Engineer

Greenhost provides value-driven, reliable and renewable digital infrastructure. We believe in internet freedom, privacy and human rights, and provide state-of-the-art hosting and cloud services.

  • Contract type: 12 month full-time, renewable contract, transforming into permanent if we like each other.
  • Salary: €2,400-4,500 gross per month, commensurate with skills/experience.
  • Start date: As soon as possible.
  • Deadline for applications: Open until filled.
  • Location: Netherlands-based is preferred for sporadic on-premise interventions. We can assist with getting a work permit, but cannot guarantee one.
  • Who should apply? We are working to become a more diverse organisation: we are open to people from all walks of life, and encourage applicants from underrepresented groups.
  • Benefits:
    • All employment benefits defined by Dutch law, plus pension plan, ICT setup allowance, and additional vacation days,
    • Monthly “work from home” bonus to offset device, internet and energy costs,
    • An opportunity to use your technological skills for socially relevant projects,
    • The option to participate in creating company strategy,
    • Potential for personal development outside of your role,
    • Connections to pioneers and influencers in free software and the digital liberties community.

About you

Your UNIX / Linux systems and router / firewalls are lucky to have you as their admin. You have a passion for designing and building systems that work and keep working, rain or shine.

As an engineer you have a critical and hands-on approach to software and technologies. You like finding ways to make your deployment and maintenance jobs easier, so you can spend more time fixing, improving, innovating and learning new things. As a hacker you know that learning hands-on often works just as good or better than reading a manual. You prefer open source code over 'enterprise' software and you feel the journey is half the fun. As a colleague, you can work independently, but also like working closely together and sharing responsibilities for the work at hand. You appreciate the human factor in technology.

Skills and competencies:

  • Fluency in English,
  • Fluency with UNIX/Linux user land environments (Debian preferred),
  • Experience with or solid knowledge of most of the following systems:
    • Network protocols and tools (TCP/IP, routers, firewalls, VPNs, Ethernet, VLANs, Wireshark/tcpdump),
    • Webserver and proxies (Apache, Nginx and HAProxy),
    • Relational databases (MySQL, MariaDB),
    • Containers and clusters (LXC, chroots, Docker and/or Kubernetes),
    • Network and cluster file systems (NFS, Ceph),
    • Configuration automation (Ansible, Chef, CFEngine),
    • Monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus),
    • Linux kernel and KVM and/or Xen hypervisors,
  • Programming skills in at least 1 of { Python, Perl, C, bash, Go },
  • Comfortable working in teams, mixing independence and shared responsibilities,
  • Comfortable communicating with colleagues from other teams.

Procedure:

You can direct your letter of interest and resume to Pepijn Schipper, head of HR, through vacancies@greenhost.net. Please make sure to include why you want to work for Greenhost, and why you would be a good match to our organisation.

We accept applications on a rolling basis, you will receive a reaction within a week. PGP Finger print:

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We only accept individual applicants; we will not respond to employment agencies.