Senior System Administrator

LawZero•Montreal, QC

22h•Onsite

About The Position

In charge of technology, the IT department oversees CyberSecurity, End User support, and the management of the compute environment used to achieve our mission. We are looking for a Senior System Administrator, part of an agile team reporting to the IT Director, focused on the administration of our on-premise and cloud computing environments, supporting our mission to build safe-by-design AI systems. You will be instrumental to our success by ensuring the availability, security, and performance of a platform containing hundreds of GPUs. You will have the opportunity to influence technical decisions and to work on a large variety of systems and hardware types in a cutting-edge environment. Your day-to-day will be spent between project-type work and operational management, with a security-focused mindset.

Requirements

University degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience
8+ years of experience in systems administration, or demonstrated mastery of complex, large-scale Linux environments
Deep knowledge of Linux operation, configuration, and optimization
Strong network skills, including firewalls, routing protocols, switching, and technologies, such as Infiniband and Ethernet
Experience managing storage arrays, and network and distributed file systems, such as Lustre and NFS
Customer-service mindset, able to understand and communicate with a variety of stakeholders
Capacity to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
Fluency in written and spoken English, mandatory.
Excellent priority management skills

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience with distributed systems, such as Slurm or Kubernetes, an asset
Prior experience administering High-Performance Computing (HPC) clusters, an asset
French, a strong asset

Responsibilities

Take part in the operations and day-to-day management of LawZero’s various platforms and environments
Support internal users with their compute requirements
Implement automation, using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Ansible, Terraform, and shell scripts
Ensure systems, network, and storage equipment are kept up-to-date and secure
Investigate hardware and software issues, and work with vendors for support and RMA requests
Respond to monitoring alerts and support requests in a timely manner
Propose and implement improvements to the platform and our processes
Maintain and evolve monitoring and alerting systems for performance and reliability
Develop and enforce security hardening measures, ensuring compliance and implementing best practices across all compute infrastructure
Document architecture and write standard operating procedures