System Administrator, Toronto

Who we are: TemboSocial is a growing employee engagement software company headquartered in Toronto's Junction neighbourhood. As an industry leader in integrated Intranet solutions, TemboSocial serves enterprises that are looking to leverage their Intranet investment and inspire employee performance. TemboSocial has been serving global brands like Royal Bank, BMW, TD Bank, and DTE Energy for over 15 years and reach more than 1,000,000 users each day.

What you'll be doing: You will work in a small team building high performance, highly redundant systems with 100% availability spanning multiple years.

We are a Linux (RHEL) shop and have several core technologies under the hood, including:

Apache

MySQL (MariaDB)

MySQL Cluster

Galera Cluster

PHP

RabbitMQ

You're fit for this role if: You understand that everything can be automated and actively pursue this goal. You always look at the long term maintainability of a change, not just the up front cost. Your thirst for knowledge is unquenchable. You carry large projects from initial concept to across the finish line with minimal supervision.

Requirements Must be comfortable automating things using the following tools:

Puppet

Bash

Linux (RHEL)

Git

PXE

Kickstart

screen

sudo

You will be responsible for managing multiple networks, both physical and virtual. You must be familiar with all of the following, and how they fit together:

routing

iptables

Linux bridge devices

Linux tap devices

tcpdump

netcat

curl

rsync

ssh

OpenVPN

100% availability does not happen by accident. You should be familiar with building redundant and highly available systems at scale, including the following aspects:

load balancing

MySQL replication

scale up vs scale out

identifying and removing SPoF

We run hundreds of VMs using KVM on company owned hardware. You should be familiar with hardware selection, configuration, deployment, and monitoring. Additionally, you should understand how to evaluate system and network performance, both physical and virtual, including all of the following:

IOPS

memory usage

cpu usage

memory overcommit

CPU overcommit

bandwidth usage

network latency

We primarly service large enterprise customers, and have matching security requirements. You should be familiar with security best practices and implementation, including:

HTTPS

TLS

Disk encryption (LUKS)

network hardening

service hardening

web application hardening

Once you are up to speed, you will participate in a rotating 24x7 production support role.

More great stuff!

Excellent compensation plan.

We’ve assembled a great, friendly, group of people

Flat organization where ideas are sought and accepted from everyone

Top tier comprehensive benefits plan

Casual dress code

Birthday lunches– of course!

Everybody has a window seat

Funky loft environment

Our clients are some of the largest companies in the world and they love us

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