Senior linux systems administrator

6 days ago


North York ON, Canada Boyd Interactive Full time

Senior Linux Systems Engineer Pala Interactive is a full-service, real-money and social gaming technology provider and operator which caters to both B2B and B2C markets. Pala offers a full spectrum of games across all distribution channels (web, download, tablet & smartphone). In Canada, they offer sports betting and casino games. In the US, they offer casino, bingo, and poker games.
Pala’s strength is its relentless focus on high quality, high functioning, immersive software platforms, and with recent developments in legislation, the online gaming industry is poised for rapid growth.
The Senior Linux System Engineer will be a skilled individual who will continue to develop and support RedHat, CentOS, Tomcat Java server infrastructure, MySQL databases and Amazon cloud infrastructure across the Pala web and mobile gaming platforms.
Major technical duties include :

Develop and support server infrastructure of high volume transaction and highly available production gaming systems running Java, MySQL, Apache and NGINX server
Develop, configure and support MySQL databases
Develop and support network infrastructure including firewall and site-to-site VPN support
Develop and support automated processes for Builds and deployments using modern tools like Puppet and Chef
Maintain and improve security of the infrastructure to be compliant with the latest Information security standards, like PCI DSS
Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation
Experience in administration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux/ CentOS
Experience in Information security:
Experience in web security patching
Experience with internal security audits, external penetration tests and internal scans
Experience in firewall security configuration, network separation, per-need based access, application level access restriction
Experience in administration of MySQL databases – replication, clones, backups, clusters
Good understanding of network gear – CISCO switches/routers/load balancers, web servers (apache and nginx); Ability to manage, operate, and monitor Java based stand-alone and Tomcat based applications.
Ability to support production level MySQL databases.
Good understanding and experience with Apache web server and NGINX web server
Good scripting abilities (bash, perl) and usage of automation tools like Puppet and Chef.
Ability to plan, implement, test and troubleshoot system software
Knowledge and experience with the following will be considered an asset:

Nagios and Cacti monitoring systems
KickStart, Jumpstart, cfengine, Zenoss provisioning and deployment systems
CVS, SVN version control systems
SSL certificates for web and code-sgining, DNS, LDAP, Kerberos
Solid analytical and problem solving skills.
Formal Computer Science education
Innovative, creative, visionary
Full-time, Permanent
Casual dress
Dental care
Disability insurance
Flexible schedule
On-site gym
On-site parking
Monday to Friday
Overtime pay

COVID-19 considerations:

Office has temperature checks, liberal leave policy for sick employees, separated and partitioned workspace, sanitizer throughout the office
Are you willing and able to work in-person at the office on a hybrid basis (50% of the time)?



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