Linux Sysadmin (intermediate)
Location: CA, QC, Montreal
Employment type: Full-time
Company profile: Bandsintown is a digital media company powered by music. With over 14 million registered concert-goers, a global audience of 120 million music fans and over 250K touring artists connected to the Bandsintown community, we are the premiere destination where artists and fans connect. To learn what we do for fans, click here. For artists, click here. For promoters, click here, And for brands, click here. We’ve got big plans and are rapidly expanding. And we’re always looking to add more talented people to our band… errr… team. Many of us are artists, performers, producers or DJ’s so it’s not just a job for us – it’s a way of life. We build the products we ourselves would want to use. We learn from each other, and inspire each other to do our best work, fueled by our passion for music. It’s in our DNA.
Description: About Bandsintown:Bandsintown Group is a digital media company powered by music. With over 14 million registered concert-goers, a global audience of over 120 million music fans and over 250K touring artists connected to the Bandsintown community, we are the premiere destination where artists and fans connect.About the job:Bandsintown Canada is currently looking for an Linux Sysadmin (intermediate) to join its DevOps team and support our growing infrastructure in Montreal. Working in a demanding and fast-paced environment, she/he will need exceptional technical acuity and individual initiative combined with a customer focused approach.This position will focus on exploring new technologies with the development team, supporting their deployment, and engineering them for reliability and sustainability. We require someone with the foresight and intuition to build self-healing systems, rather than someone who merely maintains them.We are looking for someone who doesn't want to stop at reading a manual, but is enthusiastic enough to write one and share what they have learned with their coworkers. We want someone who blurs the lines between code and systems, and is comfortable using public clouds like AWS.Duties and Responsibilities:Work with product owners to automate, scale, and/or implement new features for existing services.Work with the developers to design new systems together, starting at the very beginning to make them self-healing, auto-scaling, and fault-tolerant.Work with fellow Operations staff to ensure maximum uptime and shared responsibility and accountability.Deliver auto-scaling and self-healing systems.Respond efficiently and quickly to many different demands on a daily basis, especially the ticket queue.Evaluate and recommend new technologies that will improve the team's ability to meet the needs of the company.Manage assigned projects including accepting responsibility and meeting milestones in a timely manner.Troubleshoot problems and recommend/implement solutions.Write comprehensive documentation including design documents, policies and procedures.Effectively communicate with customers and peers.Manage 200+ servers ensuring that all servers have maximum uptime.Respond quickly to customer demands and ensures the smooth movement of new code to a production environmentTroubleshoot problems with all servicesMaintain a broad knowledge of programming languages, public/private cloud infrastructure, and new technologiesBuild Continuous Integration and Delivery processes with the development team to ensure the continuous, safe delivery of code into productionFearless debugging under pressure, works well with others in resolving shared issuesEnthusiastically embrace new technologies and passionate about using them to improve business processes and the customer experience
Requirements: Bilingual French and EnglishMinimum 3-5 years experienceBe a self-motivated sysadmin who wants to be a DevOps expertAbility to pick up new technologies on the flyExcellent knowledge of Linux a primary considerationExcellent monitoring instincts and implementation, spot trends quicklyExcellent knowledge of operating systems internals, system utilities and communication protocols including TCP/IP networking: LAN, VPN, OSI model, firewalls, load balancer, etc.Experience with GIT, AWS S3, NFS, SVN, LDAPInstallation and administration of LAMP stack, administration of MySql in an HA environmentAbility to troubleshoot system related problems, investigate and implement solutionsExcellent verbal and written skills with outstanding customer serviceSelf-motivated and ability to work on tasks, activities, and projects with minimum supervisionGood programming and scripting skills (bash, perl, ruby, php) a strong assetKnowledge of Cloudera, Cassandra and ElasticSearch strong assetsKnowledge of AWS a strong assetKnowledge of vSphere an assetKnowledge of Asterisk PBX an asset
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