Systems Manager - REMOTE

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: Systems Manager

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: $60000 $65000/year

Client Location: US/Canada

Summary:

Reporting directly to the CTO and managing of the Systems department. This is a

leadership role responsible for the overall technical management operations ongoing

maintenance and support of our largescale production websites and networks.

Role:

o Chief responsibility over systems and networks.

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 signoff/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 Supervise coach motivate and inspire team members to maintain healthy group

dynamics while maintaining company directives and policies.

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 companywide as assigned by the CTO.

Responsibilities:

o Daily technical supervision of Systems Administration staff of about 7 resources

o Provide mentoring and technical assistance to Systems Administration staff on a

daytoday basis as required.

o Lead as role model behavior consistent with verbal directives.

o Provide feedback for performance reviews for Technical and Development staff

and the various websites.

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 oncall rotation (12pm 8pm EST 1week 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 BGF and OSPF

o Handson experience working with Linux in a Systems Administrative role

o Handson 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 Linuxbased and other firewall technology

o Cloud technologies (OpenStack oVirt RHEV or similar)

o Baremetal hardware SAN Switching and Loadbalancing

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.

Remote Work :

No