System Administrator / DevOps Manager at Yardstick Software Inc. (Edmonton, AB, Canada)
Desired Skills and Experience
- Maintaining existing servers and network infrastructure
- Managing backup and disaster recovery assets and processes
- Dealing with hardware upgrades and infrastructure architecture improvements
- Managing systems monitoring and problem detection
- Consolidating and monitoring logs from all devices
- Managing virtual environments (VMWare ESXi)
- Managing maximum uptime for all web applications
- Managing IT contractors
- Building / sourcing internal web tools to assist in monitoring and automation
- Spearheading IT Security for our platforms, including PCI compliance, and other contractually obligated requirements.
- Organizing and participating in an on-call rotation for ensuring full time system support
- Someone who feels comfortable living in a bash shell
- If SSL certificate warnings drive you nuts, you probably should work for us
- You have strong opinions on vi or nano
- You take pride in the most simplistic, elegant solution to the most complex problems
- Proactive approach in identifying the root cause of issues and potential solutions
- Ability to analyze complex tasks and apply logical thinking
- Strong time management skills and ability to manage multiple priorities
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to work independently and within cross-functional teams
- 3+ years of experience slinging shell commands around in Linux (an asset)
- 3+ years of remote desktop work with Windows servers (an asset)
- Experience with orchestration platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes (an asset)
- Someone who shares our core values:
Random Acts of Kindness Embrace the Entrepreneurial Spirit A Fearless Pursuit of Excellence Customer Delight Heroes Honest & Empowered People
- Random Acts of Kindness
- Embrace the Entrepreneurial Spirit
- A Fearless Pursuit of Excellence
- Customer Delight Heroes
- Honest & Empowered People