Our client works in the field of application development. Collaborative application design that helps create optimal project management and deliver digital work instructions securely.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the daily operations of all systems and environments (SaaS, DR, Backups, Dev, QA, etc.).
• Install and maintain physical/virtual servers and related software.
• Prepare, execute and maintain security plans (must cover monitoring, breach detection and mitigation, incident response, attack and penetration testing, etc.).
• Resolve all incidents and tasks by providing support on tools and applications used by our internal partners, as well as troubleshooting in emergency situations.
• Collaborate closely with developer and QA teams to assess their requirements and ensure the platform is designed to be user-friendly and operable.
• Develop the necessary tooling to operate the systems.
• Monitor system events to ensure health, maximum system availability and service quality by performing system and application patching, and keeping the operating systems and software up to date.
• Maintain and evolve our backup and disaster recovery strategy.
• Proactively identify opportunities for process and software improvements and make constructive suggestions for change.
• Participate in design, architecture and engineering discussions.
• Maintain updated documentation regarding installation, configuration, operation and troubleshooting procedures related to systems.
• Configure and tune/optimize Apache/PHP and MySQL for large loads.

Skills & Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in Linux systems administration.
• Expert knowledge of Linux.
• Expert knowledge of VMWare ESXi and vSphere.
• Expert knowledge on installing and configuring physical and virtual servers, including the installation and maintenance of LAMP environments.
• Expert at server side scripting.
• Knowledgeable on Windows servers.
• Experience with container-based technologies, like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with load balancing (HAproxy) and HA server clusters.
• Experience with database clustering, like Percona XtraDB.
• Experience with high availability solutions.
• Experience with enterprise-level network/system security, like pfSense.
• Experience with monitoring technologies.
• Experience with cloud-based hosting and private cloud solutions.
• Experience with multi-site disaster recovery.
• Experience with creating and maintaining many hosting locations in sync.
• Experience with backing up and synchronizing large volumes of data between servers.
• Experience with Jenkins and other similar tools.
• Experience with GitHub.
• Detail-oriented, strong problem-solving, people and communication skills as well as product/marketplace instincts.
• Time management skills: solution-focused, must be able to prioritize work assignments.
• Preference given to bilingual (English and French, spoken and written) candidates.

Nice to have:

• Be able to read and understand PHP code and SQL queries.
• Experience with PaaS solutions, such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.
• Experience with Ansible, Tomato, or other automation tools.
•  Experience with ElasticSearch.