Linux Admin

About the job

Our mission at Chordify is to make it as easy as possible for musicians of all skill levels to learn to play their favorite music.

As a Linux Admin at Chordify, you'll help maintain and improve the server infrastructure, for both our users and colleagues.

Within Chordify you'll work in the Digital Infrastructure team - a team whose mission it is to provide a secure and reliable infrastructure for Chordify's operations. Ultimately, our users will have a great experience on our apps and web, thanks to the stable server infrastructure that you help provide.

You

• are a Linux Admin with experience in

  • administration of Linux servers: configuration, storage, permissions, backups;

  • networking;

  • configuration and management of services;

  • databases (replication, backups, storage) are a plus

  • some intersection with our technology stack is also a plus: puppet, mariadb, haproxy, proxysql, redis, docker, nginx, nagios, wireguard, object storage;

• enjoy making services work, based on the needs of the organisation and the constraints of the infrastructure;

• can think analytically and systematically close in at the root cause of a problem;

• are not afraid of picking up new technologies and learning new things;

• are mindful of relevant security tradeoffs;

• can communicate in English;

• have a proactive mindset;

• are a team player;

• love music;

• are located in the Netherlands.

We

• Are a bunch of friendly, open, always caring people, from a variety of cultural and professional backgrounds

• Are an autonomous workforce, with our own flavor of the Holacracy method

• Use Agile principles in most of our day-to-day work

• Have no managers, no micromanagement

• Love music!

Our work philosophy is simple: We believe in an autonomous workforce where everybody takes care of themselves and their work. We call it Chortonomy, where everyone does what they know best, and with all our skills combined we make Chordify. Please read our blog about the heart and soul of Chordify if you want to know more about what makes us tick.

You will

• be part of the Digital Infrastructure team - a multidisciplinary team that focuses on maintaining, refining, and improving the infrastructure which runs our internal services and supports the millions of people who use Chordify every day;

• help monitor services and flag up anomalies;

• collaborate with other server admins, spot inefficiencies, debug errors, propose improvements;

• set up and manage user accounts for our colleagues;

• configure and maintain services for our colleagues, such as CI/CD or self-hosted services;

• use version controlled configuration management to test and deploy your changes;

• keep cybersecurity in mind at all times;

• give (and receive) constructive feedback of how things work, both in the infrastructure and in the team;

• work 32-40 hours per week.

You get

• a gross monthly salary of €3000 to €4200 (based on 40h/week, excluding 8% holiday allowance) depending on your skills and expertise;

• flexible working hours;

• to work at either our Utrecht or Groningen office and, if you want, partially from home;

• a pension scheme;

• a daily free lunch, snacks, and drinks;

• commuting expenses reimbursed;

• a leased bicycle of your choice;

• a budget each year to spend on anything music related;

• to be part of an international team of music lovers;

• to enjoy Friday afternoon drinks, regular game evenings, and team outings;

• to make music during work;

• to trade public holidays for other days that are important to you;

• to focus on your mental health through OpenUp.