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 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 CDN (approximately $60,000 - $62,000 USD)
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 Responsibilities:
- 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.
- Participate in planning and project discussions for various websites with Senior Management.
- 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 Senior System Team Lead.
- 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 resolve issues 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.
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 in supporting web servers.
- Strong background with storage SAN (NFS and iSCSI).
- Well versed with ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash).
- Experience with adding/removing nodes, expanding clusters, and rebuilding clusters, use of InfluxDB.
- TCP/IP knowledge BGP and OSPF.
- Hands-on experience working with Linux in a Systems Administrative role.
- Hands-on experience working in an Advanced Network Administrative role, including routing, switching, and security.
- Exceptional problem determination and creative problem-solving skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong understanding of the 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.