Senior System Administrator - Lamp Stack

Senior System Administrator - Lamp StackSoftware International
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 AdministratorLocation:Remote (anywhere in Canada/USA/South America, but must be able to work on EST with the Canadian team)Required Start Date: ASAPRequired End Date: 12 months + renewable every yearType:ContractTotal Hours Approved Per Role: 40h/weekRate:$39 - 41/hr C2C CDN ( approximately $60,000 - $62,000 USD)Client Location: US/CanadaSummary:Reporting directly to the System Team Lead.
This Senior System Admin is responsible for the overall technical management, operations, ongoingmaintenance 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 roleincluding 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.

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