Desired Skills and Experience

  • You really want to work in a startup environment with all the pluses and minuses that go along with it.
  • You love researching and troubleshooting unique IT problems.
  • You enjoy integrating two applications that have never been integrated before.
  • You are committed to documenting your work and sharing what you’ve discovered with others.
  • You are curious about what it would be like to work within a highly collaborative environment devoid of hierarchical constraints and political gameplaying
  • You are seeking intellectually challenging projects; solid technical & business teams; the freedom to create & influence elegant solutions that you can be proud of; and work without the gridlock typically associated with larger projects.
  • Work remotely with a team across North America.
  • Design, integrate, migrate, configure, troubleshoot, deploy and maintain open source and custom applications.
  • Design, configure, deploy and maintain networking equipment including switches, routers and firewalls.
  • Quickly research and learn about new applications and apply what you’ve learned.
  • Participate in an ongoing conversation with other team members with the goal of creating the best design possible.
  • In the short term, review our existing infrastructure and develop/implement a plan to consolidate our systems and maximize efficiency.
  • In the long term, design the system architecture of high-performance systems.
  • Document everything in well thought-out requirements, design and operational support posts that clearly communicate essential information.
  • Overall, you will commit to operating within a collaborative framework of design, decision making and implementation.
  • Git
  • OpenVPN
  • OpenLDAP
  • Docker
  • LAMP (Linux administration)
  • Virtualization
  • Ubuntu
  • pfSense
  • OpenStack
  • Kubernetes
  • OpenRADIUS
  • Zimbra
  • Xenforo
  • Owncloud/Nextcloud
  • XWiki
  • Rocket Chat
  • Creating highly detailed & professional diagrams representing network architectures.
  • Instituting network & application security.
  • Applying networking and security best practices.
  • Implementing and maintaining a network monitoring solution.
  • When production systems go down, or needs to be deployed expeditiously, you take pride in your ability to work quickly, diligently and competently until critical systems that support staff, customers and partners, are online and functioning normally.
  • You follow a disciplined proven approach to troubleshooting rather than shoot-from-the-hip.
  • You prefer to find an elegant solution over an expedient one, but you also understand there are times when it is necessary to do the later and can choose which one most aptly suits the current business/technical demands.
  • You understand the word “ownership”, and appreciate what accepting ownership means in the context of an IT department. Hence, you will not shy away from taking responsibility for the IT domain.

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