Senior Systems Administrator to provide expert Operations Management support for virtual infrastructure and IaC automation tools
Job Type: Contract
Positions to fill: 1
Start Date: Aug 15, 2022
Job End Date: Aug 18, 2023
Pay Rate: Hourly: Negotiable
Job ID: 121627
Location: Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Regina, Toronto, Winnipeg
Our valued financial client is seeking a Senior Systems Administrator (VMware) to provide expert Operations Management support for virtual infrastructure and IaC automation tools!
Initial 1-year contract (100% remote, with optional extension of an additional 2 year term).
Responsibilities:
Initial 1-year contract (100% remote, with optional extension of an additional 2 year term).
Responsibilities:
- Configure real-time/continuous health monitoring on supported technologies
- Resolve incidents and problems related to supported technologies and integrations within SLA specifications
- Execute configuration management changes on supported technologies, as necessary
- Execute standardized request fulfilment within SLA specifications while identifying opportunities to promote task automation by recommending design and implementing features, while ensuring proper testing, and maintaining documentation or release notes
- Apply and maintain adequate cybersecurity controls supported technologies
- Apply and maintain adequate resiliency controls, including the creation and validation of IT Disaster Recovery plans
- Perform technology upgrades/updates/patching ensuring compliance with vendor provided compatibility matrices, and to maintain required cybersecurity controls
- Perform capacity management on IT infrastructure
- Respond to audit requests (i.e.: ad-hoc reporting)
- Perform supported technology functional testing and health checks during change, incident and other activities performed by other teams, as required
- Participate in on-call rotation, as required
- Other related activities and deliverables, as required
- 5+ years experience working with VMware vSphere 7.x (VSAN and NSX-T), VMware SRM, EMC RP4VM, VMWare vRealize Orchestration and Automation
- Demonstrated experience developing and supporting IAC (Infrastructure as Code) with tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Azure DevOps, etc.
- Demonstrated experience using a scripting language (e.g PowerShell or Python) and in creating automation scripts, deploying orchestration and automation processes and products
- Demonstrated experience as a System administration (priority given for VxRail, VSAN, Dell PowerEdge support)
- Demonstrated experience with technical decision-making needed to support a 24/7/365, multi-tiered large-scale production environment
- ITIL certification
- TOGAF certification
- Agile certifications
