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Linux Systems Administrator (Senior)
Entertainment & Media Industry Company
Montreal, , Canada
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Summary
The Linux Systems Administrator (Senior) is responsible for the health and operations of our Linux servers, with a main focus on operational activities, proactive capacity management and event monitoring. He will also contribute to the execution of various projects and will act as a second level support for the Linux systems under his responsibility (including 7/24 pager support).
Mission
The main responsibilities of this role are, but not limited to:
• Ensure proper daily operations of the Linux systems under his responsibility, such as Jira, Confluence and internally developed tools.
• Install, maintain and upgrade Linux server hardware and software;
• Monitor system events to ensure health, maximum system availability and service quality;
• Participate to the backups and restoration of Linux systems;
• Advanced troubleshooting of emergency situations on the network, must be able to work flexible hours and overtime as required;
• Perform system & application patching and upgrade of equipment firmware;
• Maintain documentation regarding configurations, operations and troubleshooting procedures related to the Linux platform;
• Participate to the definition of standards, guidelines, best practices and metrics as directed;
• Assist in evaluating new requirements, technical design and standards;
• Answer user’s query and service requests;
• Carry out all other related tasks.
Qualifications
Education
University degree or equivalent experience in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics or a related field.
Relevant experience
7+ years of experience in Linux systems administration in a 300+ servers environment
Skills
• Oral and Written Comprehension of English
• Skill in developing techniques and methodologies to resolve unprecedented problems or situations.
• Must be a self-starter that requires only limited supervision/guidance
• honesty, integrity and confidentiality must be maintained at all times.
• Be a team player
• Have good interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to work effectively in a fast paced changing environment
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize
Knowledge
• Expertise in Linux operating systems;
• Excellent knowledge of scripting languages (Bash, Perl, Python, etc.)
• Good knowledge of Chef or Ansible would be an asset.
• Good knowledge of Internet technologies and concepts such as DNS, routing protocols, TCP and UDP and higher level protocols such as HTTP, SMTP and FTP are important
• General knowledge of network equipment, routers and switches, and Cisco / Brocade FC switch
• Good knowledge of SAN, NAS
• Good knowledge of automated deployment (Create/Deploy) including scripting using Chef/Ansible.
• Good knowledge of MYSQL (Percona or other)
• Good knowledge of web network configuration (Apache/Tomcat)
• Good knowledge of Java applications (EX : Jira/Confluence) for network configuration
• ASSET : Knowledge of development cycle software (EX : gitlab)
• ASSET : Monitoring Systems (EX : Zabbix)
• ASSET : Knowledge of CFEngine