**Software International (SI)** supplies technical talent to Fortune 100/500/1000 companies in Canada. We Currently have a long term, renewable contract as a Systems Team Lead with our IT consulting client that primarily supports North American clients on various website and backend infrastructure services. **Role(s) Required**:Systems Team Lead **Location**:Remote (anywhere in Canada/USA/South America, but must be able to work on EST with the Canadian team) **Required Start Date**: ASAP **Required End Date**: 12 months + renewable every year **Type**:Contract **Total Hours Approved Per Role**: 40h/week **Rate**:$65,000 - $68,000 USD/year ($88,000 - $93,000 CDN/year) **Client Location**: US/Canada **Summary**: Reporting directly to the CTO and managing of the Systems department. This is a leadership role responsible for the overall technical management, operations, ongoing maintenance and support of our large-scale production websites and networks. **Role**: - Chief responsibility over systems and networks. - Maintain vendor relationships, as required, for technical infrastructure of office and website systems. - Work directly with the Development Team Leads and Project Management in managing projects for the website and provide final sign-off/approval for release to production. - Working directly with Senior Management, participate in planning and project discussions for various websites. - Analyze and assess areas of risk to systems and recommend/implement changes as appropriate to the business. - Continuously assess network and systems security, ensuring a high level of systems data security is maintained overall. Report concerns directly to the CTO. - Perform systems and network architectural design for the sites network, including capacity planning, hardware, infrastructure, software integration, OS and software performance tuning. - Act as single point of escalation of production issues, interfacing with required resources to see issues are resolved in a timely manner. - Effectively manage risk, including monitoring, system redundancy and backups based on business requirements and acceptable risk. - Supervise, coach, motivate and inspire team members to maintain healthy group dynamics while maintaining company directives and policies. - Provide technical assistance and consultation as required to all areas of the company, including Project Management, Sales, Quality Assurance, Accounting, Customer Service, Development and Systems departments. - Perform special tasks and projects company-wide, as assigned by the CTO. **Responsibilities**: - Daily technical supervision of Systems Administration staff of about 7 resources - Provide mentoring and technical assistance to Systems Administration staff on a day-to-day basis, as required. - Lead as role model behavior consistent with verbal directives. - Provide feedback for performance reviews for Technical and Development staff and the various websites. - Facilitate problem solving and collaboration, ensure discussions and make decisions that lead toward closure, intervene when necessary to aid the team in resolving issues. - Be part of on-call rotation (12pm 8pm EST, 1-week duration every 4 weeks). - Other duties as assigned. **Job Requirements**: - 5+ years of experience with **LAMP **(Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) - Minimum of 2+ years of management/leadership experience in a technology oriented organization required. - Must be well versed **supporting web servers** - Strong background with storage **SAN (NFS and iSCSI)** - Well versed with **ELK stack (**Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash) - Adding/removing nodes, expand clusters, rebuilt clusters,, use InfluxDB - TCP/IP knowledge **BGF and OSPF** - Hands-on experience working with Linux in a Systems Administrative role - Hands-on experience working with Advanced Network Administrative role including routing, switching and security - Exceptional problem determination and creative problem solving skills - Strong written and verbal skills - Strong understanding of software development lifecycle - Strong documentation and organizational practices - Extensive experience with many of these: - MySQL, maintenance and troubleshooting - LAN/WAN/VPN setup and troubleshooting - Linux-based and other firewall technology - Cloud technologies (OpenStack, oVirt, RHEV or similar) - Baremetal hardware, SAN, Switching and Load-balancing - Backup technologies - Systems security - Automation systems (Ansible, Puppet or equivalent) - Expertise with multiple Web technologies including but not limited to: HTTP, SSL, DNS and SMTP protocols.