Systems Specialist - Toronto, Canada - OPTrust

OPTrust

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

Systems Specialist

Department:

ITOS

Type:
Permanent

Location:
Toronto

Posting Date:
At OPTrust,
_paying pensions today, preserving pensions for tomorrow_ is our mission and business.

When you choose OPTrust, you join a team of smart, talented people who fuel our success and have a passion for pensions.

Everyone at OPTrust - from London, Toronto, and Sydney - makes a meaningful impact, our environment is fast paced, but we find time to have fun and give back to the community as well.

Our strength resides in our team members with different backgrounds and perspectives creating an inclusive and fulfilling place to work for everyone.

What OPTrust Offers You- Unique culture rooted in our core values - collaboration and teamwork, integrity, respect, flexibility, and excellence and continuous improvement - reflected across the team.- Dedicated business strategy for inclusion, diversity, and equity with multiple, meaningful opportunities to participate.- Flexible, hybrid work model being implemented to balance the benefits of working from home and the collaborative teamwork experience in the office.- Membership in our world-class defined benefit pension plan.- A purpose-driven environment, including the opportunity to contribute to OPTrust's climate change and responsible investing programs.- Professional development opportunities and learning initiatives including access to LinkedIn Learning, in-house speaker series, tuition reimbursement program and professional association memberships.- Comprehensive benefits package focused on your health and wellness, including dental, vision and extended health benefits.- Opportunity to take parental and adoptions leaves to spend time with family.- Competitive vacation package and time away from work such as work-life balance days.

About the Role

What You'll Do Adhere to business norms of thorough planning, testing, implementing and documenting changes within either project lifecycles and timelines or normal business growth/change requirements.- Provide advanced expertise in the configuration, design, implementation, documentation, and administration of system servers.- Plan, design and implement system configuration changes according to performance and use before detrimental production performance issues arise.- Formalize and standardize administration procedures used by the IT Operations team.- Provide advanced troubleshooting and administration of enterprise SaaS solutions.- Establish change management processes for tasks performed as part of the system administration role or in operational support functions which impact on the infrastructure environment.- Available to work overtime as required, supporting business operations for the organization, including providing regular weekend on-call support.

What You Bring- Undergraduate degree/diploma and evidence of progressive development in an IT discipline.- 3 to 5 years of related experience preferably in a financial/pension/investment services environment.- Expert knowledge of and demonstrated experience with Microsoft Active Directory, Office365, Barracuda firewalls, Dell EMC, Cisco, SharePoint, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft OS, Linux OS, and MDM solutions.- CCNA, VCP/VCAP, MCITP, MCSA/MCSE certification preferred.- ITIL V3 foundations certificate preferred.- Previous experience with contributing to a business continuity and disaster recovery technical plan.- Ability to produce technical architecture diagrams to represent infrastructure setup and configurations.- Experience managing servers in a TCP/IP environment with demonstrated understanding of basic networking concepts including VPN, firewalls, and load balancers.- Excellent written and verbal communication skills - ability to communicate ideas in both technical and user-friendly language.- Strong networking, relationship building and influencing skills.- Ability to co-ordinate team resources on multiple projects.- Experience writing operating system PowerShell scripts.

Serving a membership as diverse as ours and investing in a global market means cultivating an environment that embraces inclusion, diversity, and equity in everything we do.

We know a diversity of backgrounds, cultures and perspectives are critical to creating long-term value. OPTrust is an organization engaged in building on our unique and diverse strengths. If you require an accommodation at any time during the recruitment process, or have preferred pronouns, please send a message to

, or discuss your needs with the Recruitment Consultant during the telephone screen. We will do our best to work with you and provide appropriate accommodation.

We thank all interested applicants, however only those under consideration will be contacted.

Serving a membership as diverse as ours and investing in a global market means cultivating an environment that embraces inclusion, diversity and equity in everything we do.

We know a diversity of backgrounds, cultures and perspectives are cri