Careers
How hiring works on a small Tampa ops team.
If you’ve spent a few years keeping Linux servers running and you’re tired of filing tickets with a cloud vendor about hardware you’ll never see, read on. Here the servers are racked in Tampa, and when one breaks you’re the one who fixes it.
- Small team
- Hardware we own
- Servers in Tampa, FL
- Running since 2002
Life at Blue Arctic
What the work is like
The hardware is ours
We own and operate the machines in Tampa, Florida, and you make the decisions about them.
Nobody between you and the work
No management layers. Everyone contributes directly to what we ship, and we trust your judgement.
Running since 2002
The team knows its systems well.
Uptime is what we’re judged on
Engineers who take reliability personally fit well here. It shows in small things: we close the settings attackers try at provisioning time rather than in a later project.
What We Look For
What we look for
People who understand what’s happening at the hardware level. If you’ve spent years on Linux servers at scale, understand BGP and networking, and treat security as a design decision, we’d like to know you.
What helps your application
- Linux systems engineering experience (RHEL/CentOS/Debian at scale)
- Networking fundamentals: BGP, DNS, routing, firewalls
- Apache, Nginx, LiteSpeed and cPanel
- Hardening and vulnerability management
- Physical hardware in a datacenter
- Clear writing, because we document everything
| Servers | Physical hardware: Xeon/EPYC, SSD RAID-10 |
|---|---|
| OS | CentOS, AlmaLinux, Debian, Ubuntu Server |
| Security | Imunify360, CloudLinux, custom WAF rules |
| Network | BGP, Noction IRP, multi-carrier transit |
| Control panel | cPanel/WHM, custom internal tooling |
| Monitoring | Custom stack: uptime, hardware health, performance |
Open Positions
Open roles
There are no open roles right now. We hire deliberately, usually Linux systems engineers and operations specialists, and most openings are filled by someone the team already knows before they’re posted. So write now rather than wait for a listing: tell us what you’ve run, and what broke while you were running it.