Senior System Administrator - LAMP

Software International; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 84,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech talent provider is seeking a Senior System Administrator to be responsible for the technical management and maintenance of large-scale production websites. This role involves managing a LAMP environment and supporting vendor relationships while collaborating with development teams on various projects. The ideal candidate will have over five years of experience in system administration and strong skills in network and security management. This position is remote and requires availability on EST.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with LAMP.
• 2+ years of management experience in technology.
• Hands-on experience with Linux and network administration.

Responsibilities

• Manage a distributed LAMP environment.
• Support web servers and vendor relationships.
• Participate in project planning with development leads.

Skills

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)

SAN (NFS and iSCSI)

ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, Logstash)

TCP/IP (BGP and OSPF)

Linux Systems Administration

Advanced Network Administration

Problem solving

Documentation skills

Cloud technologies

Automation (Ansible, Puppet)

Tools

MySQL

OpenStack

Firewall Technology

Job description

About the job Senior System Administrator - LAMP

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 (approx $80,000 - $84,000/year)

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 officeand website systems.
• Work directly with the Development Team Leads and Project Management inmanaging projects for the website and provide final sign-off/approval for releaseto production.
• Working directly with Senior Management, participate in planning and projectdiscussions for various websites.
• Analyze and assess areas of risk to systems and recommend/implement changesas 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 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 requiredresources to see issues are resolved in a timely manner.
• Effectively manage risk, including monitoring, system redundancy and backupsbased 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 orientedorganization 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: