Systems Team Lead / Instaclick Inc. / Toronto, ON, Canada

Instaclick Inc./Toronto, ON, CanadaWould you like to join a fresh, ambitious, dynamic and fast paced development firm? Instaclick Inc. is a developer of high capacity websites that are typically in the top 1000 websites by traffic volume in the world. Our sites often have over a million unique visitors a day. Working with us will expose you to large site scaling issues and solutions that you may never experience with other organizations. Not only are we innovative but we utilize leading edge technology. Do not miss your opportunity to be apart of this exciting, vigorous, and mind-blowing organization!!!

Summary:
Reporting to the Assistant Technical Director, 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 office systems and networks.
o Keep infrastructure costs under control, suggesting areas of savings and following controlled spending and purchase tracking processes. Create processes where none exist as required.
o Maintain vendor relationships, as required, for technical infrastructure of office and website systems.
o Work directly with the Development Team Lead and Project Management in managing projects for the website.
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 Assistant Technical Director.
o Perform systems and network architectural design for the site's network, including capacity planning, hardware, infrastructure, software integration, OS and software performance tuning, etc, based on performance requirements.
o Work directly with the development team on technical designs for various development projects, and provide final sign-off/approval for release to production.
o Provide technical consultation and support to development Team as required.
o Act as single point of escalation office 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, Operations, Development and Systems departments.
o Perform outside technical consultation as directed by the CTO.
o Perform special tasks and projects company-wide, as assigned by the CTO.

Responsibilities:
o Daily technical supervision of Systems Administration staff.
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 Participate in the hiring of both Technical and Development staff for LA.
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 Other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements:

o Minimum of 7 years experience of management/leadership experience in a technology-oriented organization required.
o Strong written and verbal skills.
o Strong understanding of software development lifecycles.
o Project management experience.
o Strong documentation and organizational practices.
o Extensive experience with many of these:
o OSX / FreeBSD/Ubuntu (Both hardware and Operating Systems)
o MySQL database clustering, maintenance and troubleshooting
o LAN/WAN setup and troubleshooting
o Linux-based and other firewall technology
o VPN's
o Backup technologies
o Systems security
o Expertise with multiple Web technologies including but not limited to: PHP, HTML, Apache/MySQL, Light HTTP
o Familiarity with Apple XSAN and FCAL networks
o Sendmail protocols
o Mac Hardware, both client side and server side.
o Knowledge of Open source development & web applications
o Exceptional problem determination and creative problem solving skills
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