Desired Skills and Experience
- Manage, maintain and monitor all web servers for production, QA and development environments. Environment mainly consists of Windows and Linux (CentOS / Ubuntu / Redhat) running on VMware platform
- Setup new servers (VMs), configure guest, O/S, services and settings in accordance with operational requirements
- Install, configure and optimize all web application such as IIS, Apache and Nginx
- Setup, configure, administer and secure database servers and clusters (MySQL/MS-SQL) Perform required performance tuning
- Manage DNS records and services
- Assist web development teams with web applications and databases load testing
- Manage and maintain security policies relating to systems and applications
- Ensure that appropriate backup strategies of all systems and databases are properly managed, monitored and tested in order to minimize downtime and to reduce retrieval times to a minimum
- Work with hardware and software suppliers regarding support contracts and technical issues
- Monitor application and host performance, carry out hardware upgrades and resources optimization, when needed
- Configure and manage Load Balancer and Web Application Firewall configurations
- Maintain proper documentation on systems and procedures
- Ensure proper use of project/ticket management tools
- This position also requires sharing on-call duties for technical support in order to ensure site availability 24/7
- 2+ years of experience in a similar position
- Very solid experience with Windows Server and Linux operating system; Redhat, CentOS and Ubuntu
- Extensive knowledge of IIS, Nginx and Apache applications
- Extensive knowledge of Word Press framework
- Experience with database creation and administration with MySQL/MS-SQL along with strong skills in optimization
- Experience with VMware vCenter / VSphere / ESXi / Vrealize environment and applications
- TCP/IP and network fundamentals
- Good knowledge of server management tools and monitoring tools (e.g. Solarwinds, Nagios, LDAP/AD)
- Excelent organizational and interpersonal skills
- Good general knowledge of technologies and web tools (PHP, JavaScript, XML, JSON, CSS, HTML…)
- Good problem-solving skills, open-mindness,willing to explore new technologies
- Scripting language literacy (e.g. BASH/PERL/PYTHON)
- Proficient in high traffic web environment (Load Balancing/Caching) and troubleshooting website delivery issues.
- Experience in working with content delivery networks (CDNs), Akamai or Limelight preferred
- Experience with Openstack and Docker an asset
- Strong Team player
- Job Status: Regular – Fulltime
- Work schedule: Monday to Friday, daytime schedule. Availabilities to work on-call duties for technical support in order to ensure site availability 24/7, when required