DevOps Systems Administrator – Linux
About The Position
Global Relay delivers enterprise services to 23,000 customers in 90 countries, including 22 of the top 25 global banks. Our infrastructure teams provide fantastic opportunities to System Administrators who are passionate about maintaining reliable Linux systems with a strong interest in automation, performance and security. We are looking for someone who is motivated to automate 'on-prem' only solutions including Linux based OS Updates, configuration management and custom based implementations created by our talented developers. 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"
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.
Nice To Haves
- 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)
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
Benefits
- competitive compensation and benefits
- extended health benefits program, including virtual healthcare and a wellness allowance
- annual allotted vacation days, which increase based on tenure
- Paid sick days
- maternity/parental enhancement program
- bonus
- RRSP contribution matching program
- subsidized meal program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
