Here at Mindera, we are building a world class team and would love it for you to join us. As a System Administrator, you’ll support Mindera’s infrastructure and services, including servers, network, laptops and other systems. You will be responsible for installing, monitoring, maintaining and upgrading the systems infrastructure, keeping it running smoothly, secure and highly available, all while making sure you have fun learning and building things.

As one of the people responsible for the network infrastructure, you need to come to the office frequently. Therefore, you should take into account the distance from your location to our office in Porto. We guarantee you'll have lots of fun in the office!

You are good at

• Configuring and troubleshooting GNU/Linux, MacOS and Windows
• Networking, routing, IP addressing and VLAN planning, configuring VPN connections
• Managing IDS/ IPS and firewalls, Iptables, pf (pfSense), Cisco ASA, etc
• Directory services (MS AD, FreeIPA, other LDAP), SSO and RADIUS
• Managing and optimising relational databases such as MS SQL, PostgreSQL or MariaDB
• Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Backup strategies
• Metrics, graphs and everything around monitoring and alerting (Zabbix, Syslog, ELK/Elastic Stack)
• Writing code to automate processes and tasks
• Containers and orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes would be a nice to have

You rock at

• Configuration infrastructure-as-code tools such as Ansible and Terraform
• Change management and Infrastructure documentation
• Virtualization and Storage (ZFS)
• One or more scripting / command language such as Bash or Python
• Feeling humble and motivated by being able to learn with and teach others
• Being self-driven and working with little supervision towards a common team or company purpose

The things we really care about:

• Health Insurance – because your health comes first;
• Flexible working hours and autonomous ways of working;
• Open holidays – take the time you need for yourself;
• Profit distribution;
• Mindera Annual Trip, Sports, and sharing groups to connect and have fun;
• Training & conferences – create your own training plan;
• Child Care vouchers.

Other good things:

• Choose a Laptop & Peripherals that best suit your needs;
• Hotspot with unlimited usage (PT) – for work or Netflix ;)
• Our offices are not just working spaces — we have a wide range of snacks to keep you fed and healthy. Also, we have fun there! Board games, beer and wine tasting, you name it;
• Don’t worry if you prefer to work remotely. You’re more than welcome to join our offices whenever you want;
• Partnerships with local businesses with special offers and discounts.

Discover more about Mindera – Portugal here.

At Mindera, we craft software with people we love.

We are 1000+ techies working from anywhere in the world who love to implement the best engineering practices and use the latest tech stack to deliver web and mobile applications for over 100 well-known international clients since we started.

We partner with our clients to understand their products and deliver high-performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact on their users and businesses across the world.

You get to work with a bunch of great people, and the whole team owns the project together.

Our culture reflects our lean and self-organisation attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication.

We are proud of our work, and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile and collaborative environment.

Before applying, get to know how we hire and take a look at our Handbook!

Our offices are located in: Portugal (Aveiro, Coimbra, Porto) | UK (Leicester) | USA (San Diego, San Francisco) | India (Bengaluru, Chennai) |Romania (Cluj-Napoca) | Brazil (Blumenau)