Gradwell dot com Limited is a rapidly growing Internet Services Provider who focuses on VoIP (www.gradwell.com/voip/), email and web service solutions. We are a pioneer in the exciting new world of Internet telephony and this section of our business is growing rapidly.

Two 12 month industrial placements for 2008/9

As a new and fast moving technology, VoIP is a demanding product to provide and our customer support team is regularly faced with evaluating new and different types of network routers, phones, broadband services etc. to make sure it all fits together correctly so our clients can make phone calls.

We have won a number of awards in 2004 and 2005 in various DTI schemes including “Best use of Broadband” for our VoIP product and “Best Teleworking Company” and “Best Online Customer Service” for both of which we were highly commended.

Prior experience of the Internet, IT and Telecoms Sectors will be highly beneficial as our core business is selling outsourced telecoms, email and web hosting services to IT consultants, designers, media agencies and other small and medium sized technology based businesses.

About the job

We have two vacancies for 12 month industrial placements, starting June 2008.

The industrial placement will focus on allowing you to learn about and become familar with opensource VoIP software (Asterisk, SER), configuring servers and managing our IP network.

You will also complete some web development projects using php (mainly the Symfony framework) and mysql through working on a projects to develop our products, internal customer service systems and become familar with debugging and diagnosing customer problems through working with the support team.

You will need to have a good familiarity with computer networks, broadband, linux based systems and be a confident programmer, ideally using php or perl and mysql. Experience with Asterisk and other VoIP services will be a plus.

You will be enthusiastic about new technology, eager to learn and educated with a Computer Science degree (or equivalent)

Salary is likely to be circa 12,000 pa, plus bonus, including benefits (free broadband and a VoIP phone/line until the completion of your degree) for a 5 day week.

This is a full time position (37 hours, flexible), reporting to our Software Development Manager, based at our offices at 26 Cheltenham St, Bath, BA2 3EX.

We are a team of approximately 20 staff (6 developers), mostly between 20 and 30 years of age.

Application Details

For more information, please view our website at http://www.gradwell.com or contact Peter Gradwell (peter@gradwell.net, 01225 800 800).

Please apply via email to Peter Gradwell, or post to: gradwell dot com Limited, 26 Cheltenham St, Bath, BA2 2EX.

Closing Date 30th April 2008. These positions have now all been awarded.