Software International (SI) – Systems Team Lead
Location: Remote (anywhere in Canada/USA/South America, must work EST with Canadian team)
Required Start Date: ASAP
Required End Date: 12 months + renewable yearly
Type: Contract
Total Hours Approved Per Role: 40h/week
Rate: $65,000 - $68,000 USD/year ($88,000 - $93,000 CDN/year)
Client Location: US/Canada
Summary:
Reporting directly to the CTO and managing the Systems department. This is a leadership role responsible for overall technical management, operations, ongoing maintenance and support of our large-scale production websites and networks.
Role Responsibilities:
- Chief responsibility over systems and networks.
- Maintain vendor relationships for technical infrastructure of office and website systems.
- Work directly with 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 CTO.
- Perform systems and network architectural design for the site’s 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 resolved in a timely manner.
- Effectively manage risk, including monitoring, system redundancy and backups based on business requirements and acceptable risk.
- Supervise, coach, motivate and inspire team members to maintain healthy group dynamics while maintaining company directives and policies.
- 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.
Daily Technical Supervision:
- Daily technical supervision of Systems Administration staff (~7 resources).
- Provide mentoring and technical assistance to Systems Administration staff on a day-to-day basis.
- 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, ensuring discussions and decisions 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)
- Minimum 2+ years of management/leadership experience in a technology oriented organization.
- Well versed in supporting web servers.
- Strong background with SAN (NFS and iSCSI).
- Well versed with ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, Logstash).
- Adding/removing nodes, expanding clusters, rebuilding 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: 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 HTTP, SSL, DNS and SMTP protocols.