Your opportunity👋🏻

team.blue is seeking 👀 a Team Lead Linux Engineer to join our Infrastructure Engineering Team (16 team members strong) 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, our new colleague is responsible for maintaining the systems that ensure our operation runs 24/7/365. The applications we support have to 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.

What your day will look like👌🏻

As Team Lead you are part of the Infrastructure & Engineering team deploying and maintaining highly reliable, highly scalable systems and applications in a Open Source environment 

• Providing support, exception handling and mentoring for operational and development teams regarding Linux systems, containerization and related applications and configuration management 
• Performance management 
• Working closely with our Head of Infrastructure & Engineering
• Leading standup, delegating and follow up task and responsibilities 
• First point of contact for your team 👥
• Create, design, deploy, improve and maintain storage systems and related applications for our DTAP street 
• Defining, improving and implementing internal processes and standards 
• Evangelising new technologies and methods 
• Collaborating with users; translate user needs into solutions; manage tools through their entire life-cycle; including documentation and version control 
• Build upon and maintain Enterprise tools, facilitating Agile work streams for the technical teams 
• A bias towards open-source technologies over 3rd party, proprietary solutions 
• Happy to represent the business on open-source projects you are passionate 💙 about

What you have👍🏻

• Expertise in provisioning techniques (For example. Puppet 🎎, Ansible)
  
• Ability to make the following systems sing
  
• Linux servers mostly Ubuntu & FreeBSD binary compatible
  
• Distributed storage systems like OpenZFS, CEPH
  
• Virtualization and orchestration through QEMU, Libvirt
  
• Container management and deployment through Kubernetes and Rancher
  
• Enterprise Applications like DNS/BIND, LDAP, GIT, Elastic stack, Jira etc
  
• Cloud ☁️ & scaling tools, Load balancers, Rabbitmq 🐇etc
  
• Database technology e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, ETCD, InfluxDB
  
• IP Networking infrastructure & Security 🔐
  
• Scripting to automate via Bash or Python 🐍
  
• Owning logging and monitoring systems (e.g. Icinga, Grafana)
• Familiarity with physical and software defined networking techniques is a plus
• Excellent written and spoken English, Dutch is a bonus 💰
• Brainstorming and collaborating with your fellow peer 🍐 team leads (Datacenter and Network)

What's in it for you🤛🏻

• Check team.blue benefits for at least 9 reasons to work with us.

Hybrid Working
At team.blue NL you work at home or from another workspace. Once a week you will work at our Leiden office in consultation with your team. The second day at the office you can choose yourself.