Linux Administrator

At Chordify we’re looking for a Linux System Administrator to join our Digital Infrastructure team. About The Job As a Linux System Administrator at Chordify, you’ll help maintain and improve the server infrastructure that supports both our users and colleagues. You’ll work on systems that keep Chordify running: from internal services and databases to configuration management, networking, backups, storage, and deployment processes. Within Chordify, you’ll join the Digital Infrastructure team: a small team whose mission is to provide secure, stable, and reliable infrastructure for Chordify’s operations. Ultimately, our users have a great experience on our apps and web thanks to the infrastructure that you help provide. This role is a great fit for someone with solid Linux system administration or infrastructure experience who enjoys improving existing systems, bringing structure where things are still handmade, and taking responsibility for work that really matters. Our infrastructure has grown over time, and not everything is as polished or documented as we would like it to be. That means there is a lot of room to make an impact. You’ll help us move from mostly maintaining the current situation to also improving what comes next. That could mean redesigning and migrating systems, professionalizing parts of our setup, improving reliability, or finishing long-postponed infrastructure projects that help the whole company move forward. You'll Thrive Here If You Have strong hands-on experience with Linux system administration, infrastructure, DevOps, SysOps, platform engineering, or systems engineeringHave experience with Linux servers, including configuration, storage, permissions, backups, and troubleshootingUnderstand networking, services, databases, caching, load balancing, storage, backups, and how these parts work together in a larger systemCan design, build, maintain, improve, and debug systems made up of multiple cooperating machinesAre careful, precise, and aware that infrastructure work can have serious consequencesCan take ownership of complex work and break it down into practical stepsCommunicate clearly and can explain what you are doing, what you are aiming for, and where you need inputAre constructive, proactive, and willing to ask questions or ask for help when neededAre mindful of security trade-offs and keep cybersecurity in mind in your workAre comfortable carrying serious responsibility, especially when urgent infrastructure issues arisePreferably located in the Netherlands Nice-to-haves Experience with our current or related technology stack, such as Puppet, MariaDB, HAProxy, ProxySQL, Redis, Docker, Nginx, Nagios, WireGuard, or object storageExperience with containerisation, CI/CD, GitLab, self-hosted services, or internal developer toolingExperience mentoring, supporting, or helping other technical colleagues growExperience with infrastructure modernization, migrations, observability, automation, or reliability improvementsAn interest in music Why join us? Are a bunch of friendly, open, always caring people, from a variety of cultural and professional backgroundsAre an autonomous workforce, with our own flavor of the Holacracy methodServe tens of millions of users with a fairly lean server infrastructureWant everybody to be able to have real impact without micromanagementLove 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 designing, maintaining, refining, and improving the infrastructure that runs our internal services and supports the millions of people who use Chordify every dayMaintain and improve Linux servers, services, databases, storage, backups, networking, and deployment processesSet up and maintain services for colleagues, such as CI/CD or other self-hosted servicesDesign new and improve existing ways of doing things, in collaboration with the people who need themWork on infrastructure projects that help the team move forward, not only maintain the current situationHelp professionalize parts of our infrastructure while staying practical about what is possibleCollaborate with other server admins, spot inefficiencies, debug errors, investigate mysteries, and propose improvementsUse version-controlled configuration management to test and deploy your changesKeep cybersecurity, reliability, and maintainability in mind at all timesGive and receive constructive feedback about how things work, both in the infrastructure and in the teamSupport colleagues by explaining technical topics clearly and helping turn complex infrastructure needs into practical next steps In your first months, we’ll help you get familiar with our way of working, our infrastructure, and how Chordify is organized. You’ll start by getting to know the current setup and by taking on a non-trivial infrastructure project, so you can learn by doing while already helping the team move forward. Over time, you’ll grow into someone who can independently take ownership of significant infrastructure projects, help define what needs to happen next. After 12 months, success means you have helped us finish a couple of innovative projects that move our infrastructure forward but that we've never quite found time for. There is a lot of room to influence how we work. We are looking for someone who can bring experience, ask sharp questions, improve what is already there, and help us build infrastructure that is more reliable, maintainable, and ready for the future. Why join us? Are a bunch of friendly, open, always caring people, from a variety of cultural and professional backgroundsAre an autonomous workforce, with our own flavor of the Holacracy methodServe tens of millions of users with a fairly lean server infrastructureWant everybody to be able to have real impact without micromanagementLove 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 get A gross monthly salary of €3464 to €5914 (excluding 8% yearly holiday allowance) depending on your skills, expertise, and experience A fulltime contract which means you work between 32-40 hours a week, your choiceFlexible working hoursTo work at either our Utrecht or Groningen office and, if you want, partially from homeA pension schemeA daily free lunch, snacks, and drinksCommuting expenses reimbursedThe possibility to take part in our lease bike programA budget each year to spend on anything music relatedTo be part of an international team of music loversTo enjoy after-work drinks, jam-sessions, or gaming nights in the office with fellow Chordifyers whenever you feel like itTo make music during workTo trade public holidays for other days that are important to youTo focus on your mental health through OpenUp Apply for the job Do you want to join our team as our new Linux Admin? Then we'd love to hear about you Friday 10th of July! Meet the team Our Take On Requirements You don’t need to tick every box to apply. We care more about your curiosity, motivation, and willingness to learn than about a perfect match on paper. If this role sounds exciting, and you feel you could grow into it, we’d love to hear from you. We especially encourage you to apply if you bring a different perspective, background, or path into tech.