UNIX system administrator

Summary:

• Location: Montreal
• Work Mode: Day 1 onboarding onsite/in office presence 3x/week

Responsibilities:

• Implement and manage the Linux infrastructure.
• Evaluate, certify, integrate, and maintain various products, including hardware and operating systems like Red Hat Linux and Solaris.
• Manage system services such as DNS, DHCP, NTP, and syslog.
• Interact with numerous business units to ensure smooth operations.
• Diagnose and resolve production-impacting issues in the compute and storage plant.
• Collaborate with other infrastructure teams for outage resolution.
• Maintain operational stability and compliance for risk & control programs.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to test and certify new hardware & software products.
• Participate in occasional weekend project work for onboarding new UNIX assets.

Requirements:

• Minimum 2 years of experience in a similar role.
• Strong knowledge and experience with Linux, preferably Red Hat and/or other Linux distributions.
• Proficient in services like DNS, DHCP, NTP, Kerberos, SSHD, PXE, SFTP, HTTPD, Docker, etc.
• Familiarity with enterprise server hardware models, networking, routers, and switches.
• Ability to read, understand, and write intermediate to complex scripts using KSH, Bash, Perl, Python, etc.
• Understanding of configuration management tools like Red Hat Satellite servers, Quattor, Puppet, Chef, etc.
• Knowledge of clustering, virtualization, NAS, NFS, and SAN.
• Excellent communication skills to explain technical problems to a non-technical audience.
• Available for on-call duties (1 week out of every 4-6 weeks).
• Ability to work in a global distributed team.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience troubleshooting incidents involving compute resources and network problems.
• Experience with analyzing and diagnosing kernel crashes/core dumps and network packet captures.
• Sound knowledge of networking, TCP/IP, Layer 2/3 network design, firewalls, switches, and routers.
• Experience working in a DevOps environment.
• Knowledge and experience with various server hardware models and vendors like IBM, Dell, etc.
• Ability to identify performance bottlenecks and tune system parameters for better throughput.
• Understanding of load balancing, high availability, and business continuity.

Benefits:

• Opportunity to work with some of the best professionals in the business.
• State-of-the-art offices designed to maximize collaboration.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Enriching challenges that provide opportunities for constant learning and advancement.
• An environment leveraging technology to its highest potential.

This role is for an existing vacancy.