Jobs / Hosting Platform Engineer

Salary:
R65 000 => R100 000
Location
Cape Town
Remote
Fully Remote, South Africa
šŸ„ž Apache Puppet šŸ’Ž Ruby Terraform MariaDB

If you love all things Internet, HTTP, -rwxr-x-r-x, IaC and open source in general, you could find a meaningful opportunity at xneelo. If you are after autonomy, mastery and purpose, come and chat with us. If you find a powerful sense of achievement in putting your skill and personal strengths into action to deliver customer value through world-class Web application hosting platforms, then we would like to chat with you.

We have two areas of need:

  • Ensure ongoing performance, scalability and features of the current large-scale hosting platform.
  • Building our next generation Web hosting platform.

The strengths and experience that weā€™re looking for will largely be common across both these two areas:

  • Extensive experience in large open source-based infrastructure systems management.
  • Able to communicate clearly and concisely, particularly should things not go quite according to the system availability plan.
  • Skilled at proactively and hugely reducing the likelihood of the aforementioned plan situation - think SRE and avoiding data loss no matter what.
  • Adept at systems thinking, modern IT infrastructure approaches (eg. Infrastructure as code) and applying devops practices to infrastructure management.
  • Gets the difference between ā€œdoneā€ and ā€œ97% doneā€ and the potentially significant costs of the latter.
  • Experience in Web hosting at scale will be an advantage.

Our current tech stack and tooling includes Debian Linux, Puppet, Ruby, Jenkins, Apache, Nginx, Proxmox, Openstack, Ceph, Terraform, Docker, Elastic, Gitlab, Jira, Packer, GitlabCi and more. Experience with a reasonable number of these will be important. Even more important is your ability to use these and similar tools to innovate, solve complex IT infrastructure problems and do this as a strong team player.

Ensuring our current hosting platform continues to play a pivotal role in creating raving fan customers remains a challenging objective and puts even the most seasoned systems engineer through their paces, giving them a strong sense of purpose in their role.

Building our next generation hosting platform will appeal to those who already have good skills and experience in modern infrastructure approaches and have not yet had the chance to see these skills really put to work in building large-scale environments, with the highest quality and performance outcomes at play. This is an opportunity to get involved in a significant project while still in the formative stages.

We are looking for talented engineers for these roles and salary will be negotiable, commensurate with your skills and track record.

At xneelo, our sincere desire is that our team members are inspired by their success and able to operate with a high level of discretion and autonomy guided by our principles and values. We hope this appeals to you and look forward to hearing from you.

Xneelo

šŸ‘„ Company Size
Medium (50-249 Employees)
šŸ­ Industry
Information Technology & Services
šŸ’¬ Contact
Monique Albertyn
ā„¹ About
Who We Are
At xneelo weā€™re passionate about web hosting ā€“ itā€™s our core business and itā€™s what we do best. We spend each day working hard to retain the trust of our customers. Inspired by our brand promise ā€˜Trusted in Hostingā€™, we deliver a web hosting service that is reliable and consistent, focusing on infrastructure stability, good value and consistent service delivery.

Vision & Values
Delivering a great service experience is born out of teamwork - creative and committed individuals coming together to delight our customers. As a team, we understand that trust is the reward of care and our motto - to be Trusted in Hosting - influences all we do at xneelo.

We chose the name xneelo (pronounced ex-nee-lo) with care. Inspired by a Latin phrase that translates into the ability to ā€˜create something out of nothingā€™, we believe that xneelo represents the resourcefulness, ingenuity and industrious spirit of our customers - and of our own team.

It takes passion, determination and consistency to create and grow a business. To bring a dream to life. Weā€™ve always thought of ourselves as enablers: offering a hosting service that empowers our customers to interact and grow their business online, creating a multiplier effect for society to thrive.

Our Brand Manifesto
xneelo exists for and because of our customers:
because of their creativity, their dreams and aspirations.
We are a web curator: custodians of our customersā€™ hard work.

We exist to reflect their talents. Weā€™re an art gallery, a design agency,
a family business, a dream come true: weā€™re enabling
the continuation of someoneā€™s livelihood,
weā€™re a serious hobby wanting to take flight.

Weā€™re all of these things because our
customers dare to step out and make something of themselves.

To create something that didnā€™t exist before.