Senior Systems Administrator - Linux Redhat

DataCreatives, a web development / consulting company is looking for a Senior Systems Administrator - Linux Redhat with at least 5 - 8 experience, to work with us and our clients in downtown Toronto. 

Position: Senior Systems Administrator - Linux 
Location: Toronto 
Status: Contract 
Start: Immediately 
Rate: Negotiable 

 

Job Responsibilities

 

Establish and test standard systems configurations 
Establish operations policies and procedures for production (with the DBA and Engineering teams)
Assist in the selection of management software for log management, release distribution and monitoring 
Performance analysis of systems 
Participate in capacity planning 
Root cause determination for faults 
Script and procedure development 

 

Technical Skills Required

LAMP Servers in a HA production environment (5-8 years) 

Clustered Unix / Linux environments 
Implementing and supporting our Management tools and scripts 
Server scripting (PHP, Perl, awk etc) 
Experience in large Web/DB projects 
MySQL 5.0 scripting and maintenance 
Systems and infrastructure security 
High availability system design/support – ideally in a SaaS or commodity website environment (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, SalesForce,etc) 
Ultra high volume messaging 
Management infrastructure tools (Nagios, Cacti,Tivoli, OpenView, Splunk etc) 

Nice to have:

 

Computer Science Degree or equivalent work experience
Deployment and distribution automation tools (YUM, Puppet, RPM, etc) 
Consumer software/website database design 
Strongmail Mail systems 
Salesforce’s Force.com Appexchange platform 
Virtual systems build and management utilizing VMWare, Xen or an equivalent 

For consideration, please send your resume to jobs (at) datacreatives.com