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Senior Systems Administrator

Tech Talent International
Remote (Canada/USA/South America)
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About this role

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:

o responsibility over systems and networks.

o 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.

o Working directly with Senior Management, participate in planning and project discussions for various websites.

o Analyze and assess areas of risk to systems and recommend/implement changes as appropriate to the business.

o Continuously assess network and systems security, ensuring a high level of systems data security is maintained overall. Report concerns directly to the CTO.

o Perform systems and network architectural design for the sites network, including capacity planning, hardware, infrastructure, software integration, OS and software performance tuning.

o Act as single point of escalation of production issues, interfacing with required resources to see issues are resolved in a timely manner.

o Effectively manage risk, including monitoring, system redundancy and backups based on business requirements and acceptable risk.

o 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.

o Perform special tasks and projects company-wide, as assigned by the CTO.

Responsibilities

  • o Provide mentoring and technical assistance to Systems Administration staff on a

  • day-to-day basis, as required.

  • o Lead as role model behavior consistent with verbal directives.

  • o Provide feedback for performance reviews for Technical and Development staff

  • and the various websites.

  • o Facilitate problem solving and collaboration, ensure discussions and make

  • decisions that lead toward closure, intervene when necessary to aid the team in

  • resolving issues.

  • o Be part of on-call rotation (12pm 8pm EST, 1-week duration every 4 weeks).

  • o Other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

  • o 5+ years of experience with LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)

  • o Must be well versed supporting web servers

  • o Strong background with storage SAN (NFS and iSCSI)

  • o Well versed with ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash)

  • o Adding/removing nodes, expand clusters, rebuilt clusters, , use InfluxDB

  • o TCP/IP knowledge BGF and OSPF

  • o Hands-on experience working with Linux in a Systems Administrative role

  • o Hands-on experience working with Advanced Network Administrative role

  • including routing, switching and security

  • o Exceptional problem determination and creative problem solving skills

  • o Strong written and verbal skills

  • o Strong understanding of software development lifecycle

  • o Strong documentation and organizational practices

o Extensive experience with many of these:

  • o MySQL, maintenance and troubleshooting

  • o LAN/WAN/VPN setup and troubleshooting

  • o Linux-based and other firewall technology

  • o Cloud technologies (OpenStack, oVirt, RHEV or similar)

  • o Baremetal hardware, SAN, Switching and Load-balancing

  • o Backup technologies

  • o Systems security

  • o Automation systems (Ansible, Puppet or equivalent)

o Expertise with multiple Web technologies including but not limited to:

  • HTTP, SSL, DNS and SMTP protocols.

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