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Devops Systems Administrator – Linux
| Company | Global Relay |
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| Location | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
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| Salary | $90000 – $130000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Mid Level |
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Requirements
- Minimum 3 years of experience as a Linux system administrator of bare metal, VM and orchestrated deployments
- Enjoys automating away manual tasks using scripting (Bash, Python, etc.) and configuration management tools such as Ansible
- A desire to dig deep to troubleshoot, debug and decouple the layers that comprise automated deployments and configuration management
- Ability to analyze complex systems and problems and express them in simple terms
- Experience in troubleshooting networking issues
- Experience working in Agile based teams
- A problem solver who takes initiative and is pro active
- Effortlessly self-motivates while working on team-based projects
- A well organized, thorough and detail oriented person
- Able to keep the ‘bigger picture’ in mind while prioritizing conflicting demands and tasks
- Confident enough to voice your opinion, ask questions and not afraid to suggest a better solution, without being abrasive
- Enjoys collaborating with others, including other functional teams to implement automated, scalable, stable and efficient infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Deploy, update, and monitor Linux systems
- Collaborate with development teams to reduce TOIL related to bespoke application deployments and associated tooling
- Support multiple on-premise environments
- Collaborate with application support teams to share and document knowledge and operational run books
- Scale and manage infrastructure with high throughput, availability and storage requirements
- Assist with urgent issues including on being part of an on-call rota to provide 2nd level troubleshooting support when required
- Automate all the things
Preferred Qualifications
- Scripting (Bash, Python, etc.)
- Automation and Configuration Management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt, Fabric, etc.)
- Experience researching and advising on new technology implementations
- SQL administration (Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, etc.)
- Hands on Kubernetes experience
- Containerization experience (Docker, Podman, etc.)
- Networking experience (DNS, VLANs, etc.)
- Experience with web servers and load balancers (Apache, Nginx, HAProxy, etc.)
- Monitoring and logging infrastructure (Zabbix, Splunk, ELK, Graphite, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.)
- Experience of CICD practices
- Proficiency in Jenkins and Jenkins Pipelines developed in Groovy running on a Linux foundation
- Experience with object oriented languages (Java, C# etc)
- Experience with performance tuning, troubleshooting, and capacity planning for Database clusters (eg. Ceph, Cassandra)
