At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and manage a large-scale LAMP environment while ensuring top-notch system performance.
- Company: Join a tech-savvy consulting firm supporting Fortune 100/500 clients across North America.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, remote work flexibility, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic role with on-call rotation and exciting projects to tackle.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by optimizing systems and collaborating with talented teams.
- Qualifications: 5+ years in LAMP, leadership experience, and strong problem-solving skills required.
The predicted salary is between 39 - 41 $ per hour.
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.
- 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, rebuild 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.
Senior System Administrator in Winnipeg employer: Tech Talent International
Software International (SI) is an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture, making it an ideal place for professionals looking to grow their careers in the tech industry. With a focus on employee development and a supportive environment, SI offers unique opportunities for skill enhancement while working on impactful projects in the heart of downtown Toronto. The hybrid work model allows for flexibility, ensuring a healthy work-life balance while engaging with diverse teams to deliver meaningful solutions.
