**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 Manager **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:** $60,000 \- $65,000/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:** o Chief responsibility over systems and networks. o Maintain vendor relationships, as required, for technical infrastructure of office and website systems. o 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. o Working directly with Senior Management, participate in planning and project discussions for various websites. o Analyze and assess areas of risk to systems and recommend/implement changes as appropriate to the business. o Continuously assess network and systems security, ensuring a high level of systems data security is maintained overall. Report concerns directly to the CTO. o Perform systems and network architectural design for the sites network, including capacity planning, hardware, infrastructure, software integration, OS and software performance tuning. o Act as single point of escalation of production issues, interfacing with required resources to see issues are resolved in a timely manner. o Effectively manage risk, including monitoring, system redundancy and backups based on business requirements and acceptable risk. o Supervise, coach, motivate and inspire team members to maintain healthy group dynamics while maintaining company directives and policies. o 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. o Perform special tasks and projects company\-wide, as assigned by the CTO. **Responsibilities:** o Daily technical supervision of Systems Administration staff of about 7 resources o Provide mentoring and technical assistance to Systems Administration staff on a day\-to\-day basis, as required. o Lead as role model behavior consistent with verbal directives. o Provide feedback for performance reviews for Technical and Development staff and the various websites. o Facilitate problem solving and collaboration, ensure discussions and make decisions that lead toward closure, intervene when necessary to aid the team in resolving issues. o Be part of on\-call rotation (12pm 8pm EST, 1\-week duration every 4 weeks). o Other duties as assigned. **Job Requirements:** o 5\+ years of experience with **LAMP** (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) o Minimum of 2\+ years of management/leadership experience in a technology oriented organization required. o Must be well versed **supporting web servers** o Strong background with storage **SAN (NFS and iSCSI)** o Well versed with **ELK stack (**Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash) o Adding/removing nodes, expand clusters, rebuilt clusters, , use InfluxDB o TCP/IP knowledge **BGF and OSPF** o Hands\-on experience working with Linux in a Systems Administrative role o Hands\-on experience working with Advanced Network Administrative role including routing, switching and security o Exceptional problem determination and creative problem solving skills o Strong written and verbal skills o Strong understanding of software development lifecycle o Strong documentation and organizational practices o Extensive experience with many of these: o MySQL, maintenance and troubleshooting o LAN/WAN/VPN setup and troubleshooting o Linux\-based and other firewall technology o Cloud technologies (OpenStack, oVirt, RHEV or similar) o Baremetal hardware, SAN, Switching and Load\-balancing o Backup technologies o Systems security o Automation systems (Ansible, Puppet or equivalent) o Expertise with multiple Web technologies including but not limited to: HTTP, SSL, DNS and SMTP protocols.