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Senior Linux Systems Administrator

Senior Linux Systems Administrator

Tech Talent International • Montreal, QC, Canada
11 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
  • Permanent
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Job description

Tech Talent International (SI) supplies technical talent to a variety of clients ranging from Fortune 100/500/1000 companies to small and mid-sized organizations in Canada/US and Europe.

We currently have a role as a Senior Linux Systems Administrator with our large consulting client, working onsite at a major financial services client in the downtown Montreal area.


Role: Cybersecurity - Senior Linux Systems Administrator

Type: Permanent or Contract 40 hrs/week

Location: Hybrid - Downtown Montreal, QC -(roles starts off 5 days in office for 1st 3 months, then turns into hybrid setup 3 days onsite, 2 days from home)

Salary: $90,000 - $95,000 + 9% bonus + 3-5 weeks paid vacation + RRSP contribution + benefits + sick/personal days

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Work as an integral member of an agile-organized team delivering Unix operational support and infrastructure projects
  • Follow up on client requests and incidents, acting as a trusted business partner with full transparency and accountability
  • Participate in Follow-the-Sun support, covering Europe and Asia
  • Propose innovative, scalable, and industrialized solutions to automate repetitive tasks and improve overall team efficiency
  • Actively participate in enterprise-wide automation initiatives by collaborating with multiple feature teams
  • Manage activities in accordance with ITIL framework (Change Management, Incident/Request Management)
  • Onboard team operational routines and participate in planned overtime operations at least once per month
  • Work closely with the Bangalore-based Level 1 support team to continuously optimize service delivery
  • Strengthen expertise in agile practices, with Scrum at the core of team organization
  • Contribute to API design and development to automate IT operations (strong Python expertise required)
  • Collaborate in the design and delivery of feature team products, providing technical insight and architectural perspective
  • Support a large-scale environment of 2,500+ servers


REQUIREMENTS

Mandatory

  • Advanced expertise in Linux Server Operating Systems (RHEL): administration, lifecycle management, hardening, and performance tuning
  • Strong troubleshooting skills at kernel, process, memory, and I/O levels
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Zabbix, Prometheus, custom health checks)
  • Development and scripting skills (Python, Bash, Ansible, Puppet)
  • Experience with production-grade automation, API integrations, and tooling
  • Knowledge of volume management (LVM, multipathing) and filesystem tuning (XFS, ext4)
  • Puppet expertise: modular design, Hiera, environment management, large-scale configuration enforcement
  • Experience with cloud-based technologies (hybrid architectures, provisioning, integration)
  • Proficiency with Red Hat Identity Management (IdM), LDAP integration, authentication and authorization workflows
  • Knowledge of enterprise hardware (HP/DELL x86), including firmware, BIOS, RAID
  • Strong understanding of TCP/IP and related services (LDAP, DHCP, DNS, SMTP, NFS) and troubleshooting of complex dependencies
  • Experience with enterprise backup platforms (e.g., NetBackup), restore validation, and disaster recovery readiness
  • Knowledge of SAN, Fibre Channel storage, NFS, and multipath I/O configuration
  • Understanding of high availability clustering and failover mechanisms
  • Experience with patch management, compliance, and vulnerability remediation
  • Strong skills in incident root cause analysis (RCA) and production problem management
  • Experience contributing to open-source projects (e.g., GitHub), including code reviews and documentation
  • Bilingual (required)

Nice to have

  • Experience with Red Hat Satellite (content views, lifecycle environments, patch management at scale)
  • Knowledge of Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash) for centralized logging
  • Experience with Software Factory tooling (e.g., Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines) and Continuous Delivery practices
  • Knowledge of OpenStack (compute, networking, storage, operations)

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