Intermediate Windows Systems Administrator (5+yrs) for provisioning, patching, and maintenance of a Windows/VMWare/HP/Citrix environment
Job Type: Contract
Positions to fill: 1
Start Date: Nov 08, 2021
Job End Date: Mar 31, 2022
Pay Rate: Hourly: Negotiable
Job ID: 112330
Location: Calgary
Our large oil and gas client is seeking an Intermediate Windows Systems Administrator (5+yrs) for provisioning, patching, and maintenance of a Windows/VMWare/HP/Citrix environment.
Must-haves:
Contract: ASAP for 6 months with chance for extension or conversion to full-time employment
Must-haves:
- 5+ years technical hands-on experience with supporting and maintaining Windows Servers
- 2+ years infrastructure systems operations specifically in a large environment
- Experience working with VMWare products in the last 2 years
- Hands-on cloud experience in large environments, in either Azure or AWS
- Experience with Citrix
- Experience with a wide-range of HP products
- Familiarity with Powershell, VBScript or command line batch scripts
- Experience with writing technical documentation
- Knowledge of ITIL practices, particularly Incident, Problem and Change Management
- Experience in the oil and gas industry
- This role resides within the Cloud Platform team, which is responsible for all “build” and “run” work within their Cloud environments.
- You will contribute hands-on to operating a multi-cloud platform and on-premise server environment.
- You will initially contribute to the successful transition from outsource to in-house IT, and ensure stable operations of a large server environment (technical knowledge transfer, documentation and streamlined process).
- You will execute on various operational activities, such as provisioning, patching, general server environment maintenance and tracking technical debt.
- Once successfully stabilized, we expect this role to offer some opportunities to get involved in building new solutions such as automation and new features/capabilities in the cloud.
Contract: ASAP for 6 months with chance for extension or conversion to full-time employment