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 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, 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 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: SSL, DNS and SMTP protocols.

Originally posted on Himalayas