IT Team Lead

Our Client:

Our client provides internet-based currency data to everyone from individuals to large corporations and financial institutions. Located in Toronto, they have engaged ROSS (www.getROSS.com) to help them recruit an IT Team Lead.

Our Agency:

ROSS is a team of People Specialists helping companies align their People Strategy with their business growth. We provide remote or onsite HR and Recruitment solutions such as Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) and Recruitment Augmentation complimented by leading-edge open-source HRIS software.

The Opportunity:

The IT Team Lead is responsible for ensuring the day-to-day optimal performance, reliability, availability, and security of the client's data and IT infrastructure. This encompasses server and storage environments, networks, phone systems, development and QA platforms, desktops, and related technologies and services. This also includes management, monitoring, reporting, and documentation of all aspects of the IT infrastructure and operational activities.

This position requires strong communication skills, the ability to manage multiple high-priority activities, along with the ability to provide creative and effective solutions to complex problems.

Responsibilities:

1. Managing a technical team
2. Installation and maintenance of Solaris and Linux development and production servers
3. Installation and maintenance of external production environments and deployments
4. Leading technical projects and resolution of complex issues where appropriate
5. Distributed network storage management
6. Network backup and restoring architecture
7. Source Code Management (SCM)
8. Learning new technologies and acting as backup to other team members for these technologies as needed
9. Participating in backup and disaster recovery planning and implementation

Qualifications:

1. Experience managing a technical team
2. Strong oral and written communication skills
3. Strong teamwork skills
4. Minimum 5 years Unix System Administration experience (Solaris or other)
5. Passionate about ZFS, open storage, SSDs, and the revolution in storage
6. Scripting experience with Perl, Shell (bash or other)
7. Understands remote management of computing platforms
8. Self-directed and self-learning in terms of technology trends and state-of-the-art computing
9. Understands how to configure and optimize computing for storage servers, databases, and compute servers
10. Capable of architectural work (servers, storage, networks, management) etc.
11. Technical insight to achieve the best possible results in a timely manner
12. Proven ability to innovate in ways that contribute to the success of the business
13. Solaris 2.x; storage management (SVM), networking, and general administration
14. DB2 database administration experience would be an asset
15. A University degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field

Referral Bonus:

If you're not interested but know someone who is, please help a current or former colleague in their career development by referring them. In addition, we're happy to give you a $500 referral fee. Click http://www.getROSS.com/referral_fee.php for more details.