Software International (SI) supplies technical talent to Fortune 100 / 500 / 1000 companies in Canada. We currently have a long-term, renewable contract as a Systems Team Lead with our IT consulting client that primarily supports North American clients on various website and backend infrastructure services.
Role(s) Required : Senior System Administrator
Location : Remote (anywhere in Canada / USA / South America, but must be able to work on EST with the Canadian team)
Required Start Date : ASAP
Required End Date : 12 months + renewable every year
Type : Contract
Total Hours Approved Per Role : 40h / week
Rate : $39 - 41 / hr C2C (approx $80,000 - $84,000 / year)
Client Location : US / Canada
Summary :
Reporting directly to the System Team Lead, this Senior System Admin is responsible for the overall technical management, operations, ongoing maintenance, and support of our large-scale production websites and networks.
Role :
- Management and support of LAMP environment
- Maintain vendor relationships, as required, for technical infrastructure of office and website systems.
- Work directly with the Development Team Leads and Project Management in managing projects for the website and provide final sign-off / approval for release to production.
- Working directly with Senior Management, participate in planning and project discussions for various websites.
- Analyze and assess areas of risk to systems and recommend / implement changes as appropriate to the business.
- Continuously assess network and systems security, ensuring a high level of systems data security is maintained overall.
Report concerns directly to the CTO.
- Perform systems and network architectural design for the site's network, including capacity planning, hardware, infrastructure, software integration, OS and software performance tuning.
- Act as single point of escalation of production issues, interfacing with required resources to see issues are resolved in a timely manner.
- Effectively manage risk, including monitoring, system redundancy, and backups based on business requirements and acceptable risk.
- Provide technical assistance and consultation as required to all areas of the company, including Project Management, Sales, Quality Assurance, Accounting, Customer Service, Development, and Systems departments.
- Perform special tasks and projects company-wide, as assigned by the Team Lead.
Responsibilities :
- Managing a large, distributed LAMP environment
- Facilitate problem solving and collaboration, ensure discussions and make decisions that lead toward closure, intervene when necessary to aid the team in resolving issues.
- Be part of on-call rotation (12pm 8pm EST, 1-week duration every 4 weeks).
- Other duties as assigned.
Job Requirements :
- 5+ years of experience with LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
- Minimum of 2+ years of management / leadership experience in a technology-oriented organization required.
- Must be well versed supporting web servers
- Strong background with storage SAN (NFS and iSCSI)
- Well versed with ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash)
- Adding / removing nodes, expand clusters, rebuild clusters, use InfluxDB
- TCP / IP knowledge BGP and OSPF
- Hands-on experience working with Linux in a Systems Administrative role
- Hands-on experience working with Advanced Network Administrative role including routing, switching, and security
- Exceptional problem determination and creative problem-solving skills
- Strong written and verbal skills
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycle
- Strong documentation and organizational practices
- Extensive experience with many of these :
- MySQL, maintenance and troubleshooting
- LAN / WAN / VPN setup and troubleshooting
- Linux-based and other firewall technology
- Cloud technologies (OpenStack, oVirt, RHEV or similar)
- Baremetal hardware, SAN, Switching, and Load-balancing
- Backup technologies
- Systems security
- Automation systems (Ansible, Puppet or equivalent)
- Expertise with multiple Web technologies including but not limited to : HTTP, SSL, DNS, and SMTP protocols.
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