System Administrator - Vancouver, Canada - Compugen Inc

Compugen Inc

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Vancouver, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Job Title

System Administrator
Onsite

Vacancy No

VN6991

Work Location

Vancouver, BC

Base Pay Range
- $50-$60 Hourly (Note: This range is not applicable to Independent Contractors.)

Job Details

About Compugen:

Compugen is one of Canada's top Information Technology (IT) solution providers with extensive service and support resources.

Our vision is to "simplify the business of technology, together" by focusing on business objectives and outcomes, aligning the most relevant and effective IT solutions to meet those requirements and providing extraordinary ongoing support capabilities.

Every day, over 1500 dedicated employees across Canada focus on providing extraordinary customer service and support experiences to private and public sector organizations. The Compugen team has developed a strong reputation with marketleading vendors and customers, for creating, implementing and supporting creative IT solutions that delight thousands of customers.

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Compugen is seeking a System Administrator for an initial 1 year contract working onsite.

Responsibilities:

Provide technical support / administration for Exchange 2010/2013 & 2016, O365, Skype for Business and Mobile device management (InTune)
Ability to build SCCM processes and automated Windows 10 environments
Performance/Availability/Capacity/Security monitoring and maintenance of server systems including but not limited to: Microsoft Server 2008/201
In depth understanding of Active Directory Infrastructure, Azure AD, DNS, DHCP, IAS, Clustering services, Windows Security, deployment services, DFS and other Microsoft infrastructure services.
Knowledge of systems security and best practices.
Determine requirements, plan, and implement major product upgrades. Design presentations to management concerning technical issues and upgrades
Direct projects / teams comprised of IT technical experts and business representatives
Support monitoring systems that span the messaging infrastructure
Provide Systems Maintenance request and test plans. This includes making recommendations for standards
Quickly spot trends and accurately predict future requirements on assigned platform
Research, design, plan and coordinate server infrastructure upgrades, enhancements, improvements and/or newly required service deployments
Participate in operational and business critical projects through the scoping, planning, execution, and implementation
Analyze service incidents and problems, identify risks, provide recommendations, and implement solutions.
Prepare and maintain detailed documentation and server infrastructure policies, standards and diagrams
Provide guidance in the completion of health checks and performance and capacity reporting.
Prepare detailed documentation and diagrams of the infrastructure.
Take ownership of all assigned tickets and drive to resolution; researching and escalating to vendor as necessary.
Enforce and follow Compugen ITSM policies, procedures and best practices.
Participate in the on call rotation and will require after hours work for planned changes and incident resolution, and provide expert level support to the IT Operations team

Qualifications:

A Computer Science degree or equivalent in realworld experience.
57+ years of supporting Microsoft Exchange in an enterprise environment
35+ years of supporting Microsoft Lync & Skype for Business
Experience in SAN migrations ("bare metal" to cloud)
Experience administering a Nutanix environment
Experience with Veeam software.
Experience with Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity.
A superior understanding of Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012 and VMware to be able to analyze and troubleshoot complex problems.
Expert level knowledge of Exchange and Lync
Experience with SharePoint, Microsoft clusters, Citrix, web farms, ISA, TMG and other systems security products.
Knowledge of Mobile Device Management
Ability to automate tasks and perform maintenance via PowerShell
Solid understanding of LAN and WAN networking
An understanding and experience setting up and utilizing disaster recovery solutions. SRM experience is an asset.
Experience managing SANs from companies such as NetApp, HDS, IBM, 3Par and EMC.
Experience with Cisco and/or Brocade fibre switches is an asset.
Highly motivated, selfstarter, customer centric, and the ability to work without supervision
Demonstrates flexibility in responding to unexpected demands. Contributes willingly during emergencies and other necessary situations during and/or after regular work hours. This position requires night and weekend work along with oncall
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Excellent technical design and documentation skills and be able to mentor other team members and help with the design and build of various solutions.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to communicate complex ideas