Senior System Administrator - LAMP

Software International; Canada; Remote; CAD 83,000 - 87,000; Full time

Job summary

A technical talent consulting firm is seeking a Senior System Administrator to manage operations of large-scale production websites. This remote role requires LAMP expertise and strong leadership skills. Successful candidates will have over 5 years' experience with web technologies and systems security. Applicants must be capable of working on EST and managing various network infrastructure projects.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).
• Minimum of 2+ years of management/leadership experience.
• Hands-on experience with Linux in a Systems Administrative role.

Responsibilities

• Manage and support the LAMP environment.
• Maintain vendor relationships, as required.
• Perform systems and network architectural design.

Skills

LAMP

Management and leadership

Web server support

SAN (NFS and iSCSI)

ELK stack

TCP/IP knowledge (BGP and OSPF)

Linux Systems Administration

Advanced Networking Administration

Problem solving skills

Documentation practices

Tools

MySQL

LAN/WAN/VPN setup

Cloud technologies

Firewall technology

Backup technologies

Automation systems (Ansible, Puppet)

Job description

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

• o Management and support of LAMP environment
• o Maintain vendor relationships, as required, for technical infrastructure of office and website systems.
• 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 Senior System Team Lead
• 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 Team Lead.
• 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 Minimum of 2+ years of management/leadership experience in a technology oriented organization required.
• 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 BGP 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: