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 ManagerLocation: 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: $60,000 - $65,000/yearClient Location: US/CanadaSummary:Reporting directly to the CTO and managing of the Systems department. This is aleadership role responsible for the overall technical management, operations, ongoingmaintenance and support of our large-scale production websites and networks.Role:o Chief responsibility over systems and networks.o Maintain vendor relationships, as required, for technical infrastructure of officeand website systems.o Work directly with the Development Team Leads and Project Management inmanaging projects for the website and provide final sign-off/approval for releaseto production.o Working directly with Senior Management, participate in planning and projectdiscussions for various websites.o Analyze and assess areas of risk to systems and recommend/implement changesas appropriate to the business.o Continuously assess network and systems security, ensuring a high level ofsystems 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, OSand software performance tuning.o Act as single point of escalation of production issues, interfacing with requiredresources to see issues are resolved in a timely manner.o Effectively manage risk, including monitoring, system redundancy and backupsbased on business requirements and acceptable risk.o Supervise, coach, motivate and inspire team members to maintain healthy groupdynamics while maintaining company directives and policies.o Provide technical assistance and consultation as required to all areas of thecompany, 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 CTO.Responsibilities:o Daily technical supervision of Systems Administration staff of about 7 resourceso Provide mentoring and technical assistance to Systems Administration staff on aday-to-day basis, as required.o Lead as role model behavior consistent with verbal directives.o Provide feedback for performance reviews for Technical and Development staffand the various websites.o Facilitate problem solving and collaboration, ensure discussions and makedecisions that lead toward closure, intervene when necessary to aid the team inresolving 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 orientedorganization required.o Must be well versed supporting web serverso 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 InfluxDBo TCP/IP knowledge BGF and OSPFo Hands-on experience working with Linux in a Systems Administrative roleo Hands-on experience working with Advanced Network Administrative roleincluding routing, switching and securityo Exceptional problem determination and creative problem solving skillso Strong written and verbal skillso Strong understanding of software development lifecycleo Strong documentation and organizational practiceso Extensive experience with many of these:o MySQL, maintenance and troubleshootingo LAN/WAN/VPN setup and troubleshootingo Linux-based and other firewall technologyo Cloud technologies (OpenStack, oVirt, RHEV or similar)o Baremetal hardware, SAN, Switching and Load-balancingo Backup technologieso Systems securityo Automation systems (Ansible, Puppet or equivalent)o Expertise with multiple Web technologies including but not limited to:HTTP, SSL, DNS and SMTP protocols.Originally posted on Himalayas