About the job Senior Systems Administrator
Our company Software International (SI) supplies technical talent to Fortune 100 & 500 companies and many others across Canada.
Role(s) Required: Sr. Systems Admin
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: the max. Salary will be $4k USD/mth On T4 or C2C (5,478.90 CAD)
Client Location: US/Canada
Summary
Reporting directly to the CTO and managing of the Systems department.
Role
* Responsibility over systems and networks.
* 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 sites 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 CTO.
Responsibilities
* Provide mentoring and technical assistance to Systems Administration staff on a day-to-day basis, as required.
* Lead as role model behavior consistent with verbal directives.
* Provide feedback for performance reviews for Technical and Development staff and the various websites.
* 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)
* 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, rebuilt clusters, use InfluxDB
* TCP/IP knowledge BGF 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:
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