PEOPLE IN OUR HEARTS -
IT IN OUR MINDS
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At Basefarm you will become part of a positive, pleasant, and stimulating working environment. Your colleagues are genuinely interested in technology and its application to business; colleagues who have plenty of professional pride and integrity. We have a slogan, "nerds, systemized", and this says a lot about our internal culture. We continually strive to make each other better.
Har du några års erfarenhet av controlling eller redovisning och är redo för ditt nästa steg? Vill du vara med och påverka ekonomiorganisationens fortsatta struktur, arbete och utveckling?
Are you motivated by technical challenges and teamwork? Would like to assist our customers to achieve their digital ambitions, through enabling and securing their online presence? Are you experienced in technical implementation, maintenance and operation of Linux-based business critical services? Then a technical position in the Service Delivery part of Basefarm might be the one for you!
Are you a technical specialist with a wide range of experience in business critical IT services? Would you like to add value to our customers with your technical, innovative and communicative experience? In this customer-facing role, you are an important part of our successful customer teams that make the difference for our customers and their businesses. Do you also like to help our customers and colleagues to continuously improve? Then you might be the person we are looking for.
About the position:
As a Linux Systems Engineer at Basefarm you will be working on the design, implementation, development and maintenance of the technical platforms of our customers. Together with other Engineers and the Service Manager you strive to continuously improve our services to match our customers’ needs in the best way. Next to this you are responsible for changes, maintenance, optimization and solving problems related to applications and operating systems.
You will work in a dynamic team in close collaboration with other technical specialists (e.g. Linux, Microsoft, DBA, Infra) Operations center engineers, Service/Project Managers and Sales.There are many opportunities to develop yourself further. With this role you will make use of your experience with hosting and cloud infrastructures, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Puppet, Apache, Nginx, MySQL, Tomcat, Continuous Integration/Deployment tools (e.g. Jenkins), Docker, ELK stack and more. Your primary position will be System Engineer, but you may have additional roles such as:
- Project Technical Coordinator– Together with the project manager you will lead implementation and migration projects for new and existing customers.
- Technical Account Manager – for a selection of our customers you will be the primary technical contact person and coordinator. Together with the Service Manager and other technical engineers you will manage and further improve our services.
- Stand-by Engineer (outside office hours) - During standby service you are available for 2nd line 24x7 support of our customers.
Job requirements
- Bachelor working- and thinking proficiency;
- You have at least five years relevant work experience in a similar position;
- You are customer-oriented and have good communicative skills;
- You are proficient in advising others and think in terms of solutions;
- You are experienced in designing, implementing, testing and troubleshooting technical solutions
- You are experienced in planning and coordination of technical activities.
- Knowledge of and experience with ITIL;
- Solid knowledge of and experience with RHEL based Linux
- Solid knowledge of and experience with Puppet, Apache, Nginx, MySQL, Tomcat
- Knowledge of and experience with Continuous Integration / Deployment tools (e.g. Jenkins), Docker and ELK stack
- Solid knowledge and/or experience with networking and DNS;
- Fluent in English and Dutch, both verbal and in writing.
It is an advantage if you have the following:
- RHCA, RHCE, LPIC 1/2 or other Linux certification
- Knowledge and/or experience with virtualization (VMware), storage and backup.
- Knowledge and/or experience with public cloud (Azure/Amazon)
- Knowledge and/or experience in mission-critical environments with high-availability solutions such as clustering and load balancing;
- Knowledge and/or experience with Microsoft Windows Server, IIS, MSSQL, Exchange, Remote Desktop, Active Directory.
Do you recognize yourself in the following competencies?
- Team player
- Customer focused
- Continuously looking for improvements
- Environmental and organization sensitive
- Analytical
- Result-oriented
- Structured and organized
- Quality conscious
- Flexible
Why Basefarm?
Basefarm offers a fun and stimulating environment among highly skilled colleagues who all share a passion for IT. We offer good remuneration and secondary benefits, such as a training budget, a pension plan, commuting expenses, and above all a great atmosphere. We are proud of our Scandinavian roots and find a healthy work/life balance important and have a high degree of trust in our colleagues. You will be given the opportunity of working in a Great Place to Work - in 2018, Basefarm Netherlands was awarded title Best Workplaces 2018.
Basefarm has an exciting opportunity for a Talent Acquisition Manager!
Is leading and driving projects your thing? Do you want to work with things that matter for people’s everyday life?
Are you eager to kick-start your career as IT engineer? Then you are the person we are looking for!
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WORK LIFE BALANCE
At Basefarm we’re pretty flexible when it comes to managing workload and time. We believe work-life balance is an essential piece of your wellbeing and well-needed to be successful.
TECHNOLOGY & PEOPLE DRIVEN
Our second corporate language is technical. We encourage Basefarmers to be creative, by supporting initatives such as Creative Fridays and power lunches
"SCANDINAVIAN" CULTURE
We're a people company with flat hierarchies and trustworthy colleagues. Basefarm encourages its employees to take initiative and cultivate new ideas. Together we make a difference.
INTERNATIONAL TEAM
We're one great family working in diversed teams and cross border countries. This way, we create a space for international learning, which improves each individual and Basefarm as a whole.
Great Place To Work ranking
" We are honored to be in the top 10 of Best Employers in Norway. We would like to thank our employees because they are the success behind our company and drive our technical excellence. By maintaining our culture and living our values, we create a great place to work for our employees that also helps us to be a better company for our customers, partners, and shareholders "
Marcel Ravenshorst, SVP HR
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OUR STORY
We are a European Managed Service Provider. We create market leaders by integrating the key competencies for digital transformation Big Data, cloud computing and information security into one service offering. Our delivery model covers everything from idea to cable: we provide strategic advice, implementation projects and infrastructure operations under one management and on any cloud. Founded in 2000 in the Nordics we are today a team of Europe’s top 500 engineers and advisors, working in Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands, Germany and Austria.
Come join us on our journey!
Basefarm founded in Oslo, Norway
Opened office in Stockholm
Acquired TDC’s Norwegian Outsourcing operation
Schibsted ASA Became the majority shareholder
Acquired Infostream
- Became a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
- Opened new Datacenter in Oslo
Acquired by Reiten & Co
Acquired BlueDome BV and WebDeal AS
- Became the first hosting provider in Norway and Sweden to be PCI DSS certified
- Acquired by ABRY Partners
- ISO 27001 certified Members of First.org
- ISO 14001 Certified
Awarded VMware Partner Of the year
Awarded Gartner Cool Vendor
- Top ranked (#4) in Whitelane Research IT outsourcing study
- Awarded by Great Place to Work - Top 10 workplaces in Norway 2016
- Aquired The Unbelievable Machine Company
- Awarded by Great Place to Work - Top 10 workplaces in Norway 2017
Meet the CEO of Basefarm
" Basefarm has an amazing team with an incredible commitment to its customers. This is also confirmed by its top ranking as No. 2 in the Service Delivery category in Whitelanes 2016 survey. The industry for managed services as a whole is undergoing an exciting development, with growing demand for Basefarm’s hybrid cloud services which includes both public and private cloud, and the complexity of security and compliance around the same. This goes hand in hand with Basefarm’s ambition of becoming the leading European hybrid cloud vendor. ”
Fredrik Ohlsen, CEO Basefarm Group
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