Senior Linux Systems Administrator

Tech Talent International (SI) supplies technical talent to a variety of clients ranging from Fortune 100/500/1000 companies to small and mid-sized organizations in Canada/US and Europe.

We currently have a role as a Senior Linux Systems Administrator with our large consulting client working onsite ata major financial services client in the downtown Montreal area.

Role: Cybersecurity - Senior Linux Systems Administrator

Type: Permanent or Contract 40 hrs/week

Location: Hybrid - Downtown Montreal QC -(roles starts off 5 days in office for 1st 3 months then turns into hybrid setup 3 days onsite 2 days from home)

Salary: $90000 - $95000 9% bonus 3-5 weeks paid vacation RRSP contribution benefits sick/personal days

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work as an integral member of an agile-organized team delivering Unix operational support and infrastructure projects
• Follow up on client requests and incidents acting as a trusted business partner with full transparency and accountability
• Participate in Follow-the-Sun support covering Europe and Asia
• Propose innovative scalable and industrialized solutions to automate repetitive tasks and improve overall team efficiency
• Actively participate in enterprise-wide automation initiatives by collaborating with multiple feature teams
• Manage activities in accordance with ITIL framework (Change Management Incident/Request Management)
• Onboard team operational routines and participate in planned overtime operations at least once per month
• Work closely with the Bangalore-based Level 1 support team to continuously optimize service delivery
• Strengthen expertise in agile practices with Scrum at the core of team organization
• Contribute to API design and development to automate IT operations (strong Python expertise required)
• Collaborate in the design and delivery of feature team products providing technical insight and architectural perspective
• Support a large-scale environment of 2500 servers

REQUIREMENTS

Mandatory

• Advanced expertise in Linux Server Operating Systems (RHEL): administration lifecycle management hardening and performance tuning
• Strong troubleshooting skills at kernel process memory and I/O levels
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g. Zabbix Prometheus custom health checks)
• Development and scripting skills (Python Bash Ansible Puppet)
• Experience with production-grade automation API integrations and tooling
• Knowledge of volume management (LVM multipathing) and filesystem tuning (XFS ext4)
• Puppet expertise: modular design Hiera environment management large-scale configuration enforcement
• Experience with cloud-based technologies (hybrid architectures provisioning integration)
• Proficiency with Red Hat Identity Management (IdM) LDAP integration authentication and authorization workflows
• Knowledge of enterprise hardware (HP/DELL x86) including firmware BIOS RAID
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP and related services (LDAP DHCP DNS SMTP NFS) and troubleshooting of complex dependencies
• Experience with enterprise backup platforms (e.g. NetBackup) restore validation and disaster recovery readiness
• Knowledge of SAN Fibre Channel storage NFS and multipath I/O configuration
• Understanding of high availability clustering and failover mechanisms
• Experience with patch management compliance and vulnerability remediation
• Strong skills in incident root cause analysis (RCA) and production problem management
• Experience contributing to open-source projects (e.g. GitHub) including code reviews and documentation
• Bilingual (required)

Nice to have

• Experience with Red Hat Satellite (content views lifecycle environments patch management at scale)
• Knowledge of Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch Kibana Logstash) for centralized logging
• Experience with Software Factory tooling (e.g. Jenkins CI/CD pipelines) and Continuous Delivery practices
• Knowledge of OpenStack (compute networking storage operations)