Senior System Engineer

Senior System EngineerLocation: Montreal, In officeWho We Are:Founded in 2012 in Montreal, Quebec, Valnet Inc. is the leading digital publishing and media investment Company that owns and operates over 25 authoritative brands across diverse verticals, including entertainment, sports, technology, automotive, gaming, lifestyle and travel.The Opportunity:Valnet is seeking a skilled Senior System Engineer with experience running high-traffic websites. Your daily responsibilities are to maintain, develop, optimize, and secure our infrastructure to ensure a great experience for our readers and internal teams alike. You will oversee handling daily backups of all company assets and to stay on top of the latest vulnerabilities and other relevant advances in tech. To be successful in this role, you must be comfortable working on the command line via SSH and tailing server logs to find the root of the problem.What you will be doing:You will work closely with our Dev team to facilitate code deployment and data transfer between environments. You will also oversee new and innovative ways to automate common tasks through scripting and/or coding, which should come naturally to you. Daily, you will Monitor a network of 30+ websites, ready to jump in and minimize downtime.What you need to succeed:AWS EC2/RDS AuroraAmazon LinuxNGINX (HTTP load balancing / Proxy / Caching)DDoS mitigationPHP (Symfony)RedisDNS managementBonus skills:Prometheus + GrafanaCloudflare / FastlyJenkinsShell scriptingRsyncGitWireGuardLet's EncryptGo programmingGCP / AzureWhy Work for Us?Valnet offers careers for the driven. Every new hire has the opportunity to go beyond their day-to-day responsibilities and have a meaningful impact on the business. Your career has the potential to evolve and is ripe with opportunities to expand and diversify year over year. Hard work and dedication are well rewarded through competitive compensation plans, bonus structures, and perks catered to your work location.