Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Software International supplies technical talent to Fortune 100/500/1000 companies and supports clients with website and backend infrastructure services. The Senior System Administrator manages the technical operations, maintenance, security, architecture, and support of large-scale production websites, networks, and LAMP environments. The role also provides escalation support, project consultation, risk management, and on-call assistance.
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
Skills
- 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:
- HTTP, SSL, DNS and SMTP protocols
- Be part of on-call rotation (12pm 8pm EST, 1-week duration every 4 weeks)
Benefits
- Remote (anywhere in Canada/USA/South America, but must be able to work on EST with the Canadian team)
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