DevOps Systems Administrator - Linux

Overview:
We deliver enterprise services to thousands of customers globally. Our infrastructure teams provide fantastic opportunities to System Administrators who are passionate about maintaining reliable Linux systems with a strong interest in automation, performance, and security. We are looking for someone motivated to automate on-premises solutions, including Linux-based OS updates, configuration management, and custom implementations created by development teams.


What you will be doing:

• Deploy, update, and monitor Linux systems

• Collaborate with development teams to reduce TOIL related to bespoke application deployments and associated tooling

• Support multiple on-premises environments

• Collaborate with application support teams to share and document knowledge and operational run books

• Scale and manage infrastructure with high throughput, availability, and storage requirements

• Assist with urgent issues as part of an on-call rota to provide 2nd-level troubleshooting support when required

• Focus on automation to improve efficiency

What you must have:

• Minimum 3 years of experience as a Linux system administrator of bare metal, VM, and orchestrated deployments

• Enjoys automating manual tasks using scripting (Bash, Python, etc.) and configuration management tools such as Ansible

• Ability to dig deep to troubleshoot, debug, and decouple layers that comprise automated deployments and configuration management

• Capable of analyzing complex systems and problems and expressing them in simple terms

• Experience in troubleshooting networking issues

• Experience working in Agile-based teams

• Proactive problem solver who takes initiative

• Self-motivated while working on team-based projects

• Well-organized, thorough, and detail-oriented

• Able to keep the "bigger picture" in mind while prioritizing conflicting demands

• Confident in voicing opinions, asking questions, and suggesting better solutions without being abrasive

• Enjoys collaborating with other functional teams to implement automated, scalable, stable, and efficient infrastructure

Nice to have:

• Scripting (Bash, Python, etc.)

• Automation and configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt, Fabric, etc.)

• Experience researching and advising on new technology implementations

• SQL administration (Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, etc.)

• Hands-on Kubernetes experience

• Containerization experience (Docker, Podman, etc.)

• Networking experience (DNS, VLANs, etc.)

• Experience with web servers and load balancers (Apache, Nginx, HAProxy, etc.)

• Monitoring and logging infrastructure (Zabbix, Splunk, ELK, Graphite, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.)

• Experience with CI/CD practices

• Proficiency in Jenkins and Jenkins Pipelines developed in Groovy on Linux

• Experience with object-oriented languages (Java, C#, etc.)

• Experience with performance tuning, troubleshooting, and capacity planning for database clusters (e.g., Ceph, Cassandra)

Salary/Rate Range: $90,000 - $130,000 CAD


Thank you for your interest in this opportunity. If you are selected to move forward in the process, we will contact you directly. If you do not hear from us, we encourage you to continue visiting our website for other roles that may be a good fit.