cybera
Linux Systems Administrator (12 month contract)
Calgary, Alberta · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 18 hours ago
AWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesAnsibleLinuxPrometheusGrafanaKafkaCybersecuritySOC OperationsNetwork MonitoringResearch
About the role
- Are you a Linux expert who wants your work to mean more than just "uptime"?
- We serve the province's education, enterprise, research and government sectors.
Responsibilities
- End-to-end infrastructure: Manage the full hardware-to-software lifecycle, from physical hardware maintenance to scaling environments via Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Modernize operations: Collaborate on best practices for Kubernetes, Prometheus monitoring, and automated configuration management (Ansible/Puppet).
- Data telemetry & log management: An interest in building robust pipelines for system data. You understand how to ingest, transform, and route high-volume logs and event streams (leveraging technologies like Vector, FluentD, or Kafka ).
- Data telemetry & log management: An interest in building robust pipelines for system data.
- Manage the full hardware-to-software lifecycle, from physical hardware maintenance to scaling environments via Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Collaborate on best practices for Kubernetes, Prometheus monitoring, and automated configuration management (Ansible/Puppet).
- Your application should include a resume and a short response (in your own words) to two application questions listed below.
Requirements
- Experience with managing diverse compute environments.
- You are comfortable navigating the nuances of private cloud orchestration ( OpenStack ) alongside public cloud providers ( AWS, Azure, or GCP ).
- Selected candidates will be required to provide a satisfactory police information check as a condition of employment.
- The essentials: Solid Linux knowledge (you know your way around the kernel and shell), comfort with virtualization/containers, and a "tinkerer" mindset for hardware troubleshooting.
- These requirements represent an ideal candidate, however, we don't expect you to have them all!
Skills
- Help us improve Alberta's digital future!
- A strong grasp of monitoring and alerting philosophy.
Compensation
- Salary will be commensurate with experience.
- Annual professional development funds
Benefits
- Health & Vision benefits from day 1
- Long & Short term disability benefits from day 1
- Flexible Health Spending Account (after successful probation)
- 10 days per year to use for sick time or mental health breaks
- This is your opportunity to work for a flexible, tech-forward not-for-profit that is helping Canada become a more equitable place to work, learn, and play!
- Support the community: Provide technical "Tier 3" style support for our member organizations in the public and education sectors, helping them integrate their systems with our public cloud and logging tools.
- Benefits of working at Cybera:
- A hybrid working environment, with flexible hours.
Company info
- Be part of an on call rotation: For applicable projects, we offer a compensated on call rotation.
This listing is sourced directly from cybera's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.