Senior Systems Administrator

Our company Software International (SI) supplies technical talent to Fortune 100 & 500 companies and many others across Canada.

Role(s) Required: Sr. Systems Admin

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**:the max. Salary will be $4k USD/mth On T4 or C2C (5,478.90 CAD)**

Client Location: US/Canada

Summary:
Reporting directly to the CTO and managing of the Systems department.

Role:

- responsibility over systems and networks.
- 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 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 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 CTO.

**Responsibilities**:

- Provide mentoring and technical assistance to Systems Administration staff on a

day-to-day basis, as required.
- 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, 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)
- 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 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 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.