Senior System Administrator - LAMP

Tech Talent International; Canada; Remote; MXN 1,108,000 - 1,182,000; Full time

Job summary

Software International (SI) is seeking a Senior System Administrator to oversee the overall technical management, operations, and maintenance of large-scale production websites and networks. This remote role supports North American clients and requires EST-aligned on-call availability.

Responsibilities include managing a distributed LAMP environment, collaborating with Development and Project teams, and ensuring system security and reliability.

Qualifications

• Broad experience managing a large, distributed LAMP environment.
• Strong Linux and system admin background with web tech.
• Experience with security, backup, and disaster recovery planning.
• Proven leadership/mentorship in a tech organization.

Responsibilities

• Manage and support a large LAMP environment across multiple sites.
• Coordinate with Devs and PMs to plan releases to production.
• Lead on-call rotation and incident resolution during EST hours.
• Maintain vendor relationships for infrastructure and office/website systems.
• Provide guidance to PM, Sales, QA, Accounting, and Support teams.

Skills

LAMP stack

Leadership

Linux

Network admin

Security

Documentation

OpenStack

InfluxDB

Ansible

Puppet

Tools

Ansible

Puppet

OpenStack

InfluxDB

Job description

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(s) 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

• 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.
• 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 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 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 Team Lead.

Responsibilities

• Managing a large, dsitributed LAMP environment
• 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)
• Minimum of 2+ years of management/leadership experience in a technology oriented organization required.
• 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 BGP 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: HTTP, SSL, DNS and SMTP protocols.

Originally posted on Himalayas