We’re looking for a grade-A Linux systems administrator to join our web operations team here at Semantico. We develop, host, and support many interesting content sites, such as ORCID, Access Engineering, Oxford Reference Online, and many more. We’re based in a lovely office in central Brighton, and have a ping pong table. As a senior member of this team, you’ll be expected to be maintaining & improving our management and monitoring systems for over 200 servers, in datacentres worldwide. You’ll also need to help project teams develop new solutions, and write proposals for projects – like how to move application A into customer datacentre B, without any downtime. In addition, you’ll need to be able to stand on your own two feet and decide just in which directions we need to move to make things better for everyone. You need to be totally au-fait with modern sysadmin practices. You’ll have used at least one configuration management system is – ideally Puppet. You’ll know how to automatically deploy servers remotely. You’ll probably think Cucumber is the bee’s knees. You will know what devops is all about. We figure you’re going to need at least 5 years of experience in a web-oriented Linux sysadmin role to be able to cover the above, but if you’re super smart and know you fit then we’re not too fussed. Key Skills Key skills we’re looking for are:

• Linux: Ubuntu, RHEL, Debian. You need to know this inside out.
• Solid TCP/IP networking & HTTP internals. BGP ideally.
• Puppet. Chef or CFengine at a push.
• Git & Subversion.
• Nagios, or any other decent monitoring system.
• Ruby coding.
• Apache HTTP and Tomcat experience.
• PostgreSQL tuning and management.

Nice to haves, and certainly showing you’re in the right zone:

• Cucumber and TDD experience.
• Java coding experience.
• NoSQL DB experience: MongoDB, Cassandra.
• Cisco IOS (ASA ideally).
• UK Driving license.

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We are currently looking for an intern to work in our marketing department. The position is part time, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday – though after you’ve settled in and are happy to work unsupervised these days and hours are open to negotiation. The length of the placement is flexible, but you should be willing make a commitment to a minimum six week stay in order to get the best from this opportunity. As a company at the forefront of rapid change in the publishing industry, Semantico offers interns a unique opportunity to gain knowledge and insight into an important emerging area of digital media. Continue reading →