Job Title: System Administrator

Schedule Hours: Shift rotation -7am to 1pm or 1pm to 7pm
Duration- 6 months
Location: Downtown Toronto

Typical Day in Role
• Responsible for the administration of core systems as well as monitoring and repair of high-performance computing systems. Ensures consistent and reliable operation including enterprise servers and network infrastructure.
• 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
• Strong Solaris Administration and IBM WebSphere application server Administration skill
• Writes and implements scripts to automate tasks
• Ability to identify and troubleshoot software/application 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
• Work on rotate AM, PM shift and carry pager for after hour support

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills
1) 7+ years of overall experience in a system administrator/middleware administrator capacity
2) Solaris – (5+ years recent and hands-on experience)
3) Unix (know Unix command) (5+ years recent and hands-on experience)
4) WebSphere (5+ years recent and hands-on experience)
5) Strong communication skills (verbal)
6) Ability to work rotating shifts
Nice to Have Skills:
• FI/Banking Industry experience (large organization/North American)
Degree:
• Bachelor's degree in related field required: Computer science, Engineering
Additional Notes:
– Experience must be hands on and recent
– Don’t want any candidates who do job hopping (at some point worked for 2+ years in a company)
– Must have at least some Canadian experience
– Want specifically titles of the following- WebSphere or Unix or Middleware System Administrator