Job Title: System Administrator
Duration: 6 months
Location: Toronto
Story Behind the Need
• Business group: GTS – ECCO – Infrastructure & Engineering Support is seeking an experienced System Administrator with strong experience in VMware for a high-profile project that is already in progress. The System Administrator will be focusing on documentation and implementation, while ensuring a secure environment for production. The System Administrator must be able to work independently and work after hours if need be.
• Reason for request: Backfill/ Workload/Project
Candidate Value Proposition
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work in an extremely dynamic work environment and team, while gaining hands on exposure to new technologies. They will also have the opportunity for growth, as they will primarily be focusing on the project, but will have ongoing tasks and be assigned other projects based on their performance.
Typical Day in Role
• Provides wide ranging system administration in a multi-platform environment
• Responsible for general systems administration tasks including system configuration management, OS installations, security updates, urgent system patching
• Writes and implements scripts to automate tasks
• Ability to identify and troubleshoot hardware components that are problematic
• Performs daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, network disruption awareness and predefined key processes
• Reviews system logs, application logs and security logs
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
1) Experience with VMware (administrating VMware environment, hands on experience operating VMware) (5+ years of hands on experience) *
2) Networking background (strong networking foundation or working in networking environment)- 3+ years
3) Experience with Operating Systems – Windows, Linux* and Unix (having experience with Linux is preferred, but having experience with all 3 is most preferred) – 5+ years of hands on experience
4) Strong communication skills
Nice-To-Have Skills:
– VM ware certification
– Any Windows certification
– Agile experience
Degrees or certifications:
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required
Candidate Review & Selection
• 1 Step Process: 1 in-person interview (potentially 2nd round interview) behavioral/situational/technical questions