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Senior System Administrator - LAMP
@ Tech Talent International
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Tech Talent International is hiring a Senior System Administrator on a 12-month renewable contract, fully remote within Canada, the USA or South America, working EST hours with the Canadian team. The role manages a large LAMP production environment, web servers, storage and networks, and serves as the single point of escalation for production issues. Pay is $39 to $41 per hour, 40 hours a week, with an on-call rotation.
Pay:
$39–$41 an hour
Responsibilities:
- Manage and support LAMP production environment
- Design systems and network architecture and capacity planning
- Sign off releases to production with development and project teams
- Assess systems security and report concerns to the CTO
- Act as single point of escalation for production issues
Requirements summary:
- 5+ years of LAMP experience
- 2+ years of technology management or leadership experience
- Hands-on Linux systems administration
- Advanced networking including routing, switching and security
- Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | IT |
| Experience | 5+ years |
| Management experience | 2+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 |
| Schedule | evening |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Home, Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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Tech Talent International
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Tech Talent International (TTI) is a recruitment firm from Toronto Canada. We work with clients from F1000 to startups.
Full company description
Tech Talent International is boutique recruitment firm based out of the Toronto Canada. We are provide contract and permanent staffing services to a variety of clients ranging from F1000s to startups across Canada/US and the world.
- LinkedIn followers
- 1,738
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 1
- Reported office locations
- 1661 Morris Avenue, Ennismore, ON K0L1T0, CA
- Other recorded names
- Tech Talent International
- Specialties
- recruitment
- contract staffing
- permanent staffing
- RPO
- background checks
- pre-employment screening
- staffing
- technical recruitment
- telecom recruitment
- ICT recruitment
- and recruitment process outsourcing
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- Yes
Tech Talent International is boutique recruitment firm based out of the Toronto Canada. We are provide contract and permanent staffing services to a variety of clients ranging from F1000s to startups across Canada/US and the world.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Staffing and Recruiting |
| Company size | 2-10 employees |
| Headquarters | Ennismore, ON |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 2022 |
| Specialties | recruitmentcontract staffingpermanent staffingRPObackground checkspre-employment screeningstaffingtechnical recruitmenttelecom recruitmentICT recruitment |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 180 |
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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 (approx $80,000 - $84,000/year)
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:
o Management and support of LAMP environment
o Maintain vendor relationships, as required, for technical infrastructure of office and website systems.
o 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.
o Working directly with Senior Management, participate in planning and project discussions for various websites.
o Analyze and assess areas of risk to systems and recommend/implement changes as appropriate to the business.
o Continuously assess network and systems security, ensuring a high level of
systems data security is maintained overall. Report concerns directly to the CTO.
o Perform systems and network architectural design for the sites network,
including capacity planning, hardware, infrastructure, software integration, OS
and software performance tuning.
o Act as single point of escalation of production issues, interfacing with required resources to see issues are resolved in a timely manner.
o Effectively manage risk, including monitoring, system redundancy and backups based on business requirements and acceptable risk.
o 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.
o Perform special tasks and projects company-wide, as assigned by the Team Lead.
Responsibilities:
o Managing a large, dsitributed LAMP environment
o Facilitate problem solving and collaboration, ensure discussions and make
decisions that lead toward closure, intervene when necessary to aid the team in
resolving issues.
o Be part of on-call rotation (12pm 8pm EST, 1-week duration every 4 weeks).
o Other duties as assigned.
Job Requirements:
o 5+ years of experience with LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
o Minimum of 2+ years of management/leadership experience in a technology oriented organization required.
o Must be well versed supporting web servers
o Strong background with storage SAN (NFS and iSCSI)
o Well versed with ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash)
o Adding/removing nodes, expand clusters, rebuilt clusters, , use InfluxDB
o TCP/IP knowledge BGP and OSPF
o Hands-on experience working with Linux in a Systems Administrative role
o Hands-on experience working with Advanced Network Administrative role
including routing, switching and security
o Exceptional problem determination and creative problem solving skills
o Strong written and verbal skills
o Strong understanding of software development lifecycle
o Strong documentation and organizational practices
o Extensive experience with many of these:
o MySQL, maintenance and troubleshooting
o LAN/WAN/VPN setup and troubleshooting
o Linux-based and other firewall technology
o Cloud technologies (OpenStack, oVirt, RHEV or similar)
o Baremetal hardware, SAN, Switching and Load-balancing
o Backup technologies
o Systems security
o Automation systems (Ansible, Puppet or equivalent)
o Expertise with multiple Web technologies including but not limited to:
HTTP, SSL, DNS and SMTP protocols.
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