Fast growing stratup is looking for a Sys Admin
Web Systems Administrator
Our company focuses mainly on developing management tools and Web applications.

Specialized in online registration and credit card payment processing, our best known Web-based management platforms are Amilia.com and Akilie.com. With over 400 clients in Quebec and a planned expansion throughout Canada and the United-States in the upcoming months, our company is in full growth.

WHAT’S THE JOB?

The primary responsibility of this job is architecting, administering, and fixing web, database, and application servers. We are looking for someone who lives and breathes systems administration and has advanced level in Microsoft and UNIX environment in a real production environment. You will also participate in platform architecture decisions and be a key player in the technical team.

RESPONSIBILITIES¬
-Daily server operations (e.g. log file analysis, performance tuning, alert responding, security reviews, user management, content distribution network configuration, content migrations, etc.)
-Design a long term backup policy for the company.
-Backup process monitoring
-Database maintenance (e.g. reindexing, query optimization, backup dumps)
-Platform performance monitoring
-Manage creation and configuration of new virtual/physical machines
-Identifying tasks for automation and writing scripts around them
-Troubleshooting our applications (usually involves analysis of IIS logs, rewrite logs, error logs, basic .NET debugging, and occasionally packet capturing)
-Network monitoring system configuration and management
-Architecting new platform builds
-New technology research

SKILLS

5+ years of experience with system administration, configuration/deployment and troubleshooting of Windows servers, common web servers and database technologies. If you don't have 5 years of experience, but blow us away with your skills, we'll consider you.
Expert level operational understanding of a majority of the following technologies:
•	Microsoft Windows Server 2008
•	IIS 7.5
•	Sql Server and replication
•	NGinx
•	Linux
•	NANT
•	Mongo DB and replicaction (or at least want to learn)
•	Firewall and switch configuration
•	C#
•	HTTP/S protocol
•	DNS
•	SMTP
•	Iptables
•	Fundamentals of IPv4

Architecture. You should be able to:
•	Rapidly design and deploy multi-tiered web app architectures
•	Define security policies around data handling
•	Leverage various virtualization technologies for rapid deployment
•	Performance tune both operating systems and applications

Ability to self-manage and multitask in a fast-paced environment. Things change often at Ziliko, and it's imperative that you're able to juggle multiple tasks, track changes, AND maintain attention to detail.

NICE TO HAVES…

•	Interest in cloud computing
•	Firm understanding of network monitoring/management systems
•	Functional knowledge of local and global application load balancing

YOU SHOULD ALSO…

•	Be a life-long learner
•	Be disciplined…in your engineering
•	Understand urgency, and when to apply it
•	Have a willingness to calmly own and resolve unexpected incidents that occur in a hosting environment
•	Be a great communicator: written, verbal, Skype, video conferencing, smoke signals,...

•	You will be the 1st system administrators in the company.
•	Casual dress.