Senior System Administrator - LAMP Stack

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: 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 Senior System Team Lead 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.