Senior System Administrator LAMP Stack

Software International; Remote; CAD 60,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent technology firm in Canada is seeking a Senior System Administrator to manage their LAMP stack environment. The role includes overseeing web servers and ensuring system security while requiring strong leadership and technical skills. Candidates should possess at least 5 years of experience in systems administration and a solid background in managing large-scale environments. This position is remote and offers a renewable contract with a competitive hourly rate ranging from $39 to $41 CAD.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).
• Minimum of 2+ years of management/leadership experience.
• Strong background with SAN (NFS and iSCSI).
• Hands-on experience with Advanced Network Administration.

Responsibilities

• Manage the large, distributed LAMP environment.
• Facilitate problem-solving and team decision-making.
• Be part of the on-call rotation.
• Provide technical assistance to various company departments.

Skills

Management and support of LAMP environment

Problem determination and creative problem solving

Strong written and verbal communication

Knowledge of TCP/IP BGP and OSPF

Hands-on experience working with Linux

Tools

ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, Logstash)

MySQL

Ansible

OpenStack

Job description

Senior System Administrator - LAMP Stack

About the job Senior System Administrator - LAMP Stack

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, distributed 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: