System Administrator - Ottawa, Canada - CGI

CGI

Verified Company

Ottawa, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

System Administrator - Unix:

Category:
Infrastructure/Cloud

Main location:
Canada, Ontario, Ottawa

Position ID:

J

Employment Type:
Full Time

Position Description:

At CGI, we offer the opportunity to work with Canada's largest Information Technology Outsourcing and Management Consulting Company with a true global presence in a fast-paced and energetic atmosphere where your personal and professional growth is accelerated by your desire and commitment.

Due to ongoing growth and success of projects delivery team, CGI is seeking an experienced Unix System Administrator to join our world-class IT solution company to fill a permanent full-time role, on client site in Ottawa.

This role will provide leading information technology services directly to our many clients around North America

CGI supports our members' career aspirations, offering learning initiatives and provides access to our global health and wellness program. We also offer competitive compensation and benefits such as our share purchase plan, a profit sharing program, flexible schedules that guarantee a good work-life balance

You have a passion for system reliability and take an automation first approach to routine tasks.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

Participate in design and architecture of new systems and support tools solutions that meet or exceed established business and technical requirements
Performance and capacity analysis, planning and reporting.
Create automated builds for server images.
Reduce repetitive manual tasks through automation.
Troubleshooting and resolving technical incidents and complex design and administration problems
Exchanging information with solution vendors to coordinate maintenance work and problem resolution
Taking ownership and devises effective solutions and a plan of action to ensure system performance, availability and to restore services to the customer satisfaction and to service levels
Producing and updating technical documentation
Identifying and implementing initiatives that improve or optimize existing infrastructure environments or processes in regards to security, stability and sustainability
Evaluate nonfunctional characteristics including performance, availability, scalability, resilience
Review environments for production and nonproduction (development, test, QA, training) and provide recommendations for ongoing improvement and sustainability
Ensure changes to existing services are made in a controlled manner: i.e. include impact assessment in consultation with the business and technical owners, regression testing of any impacted systems, and planned migration into production.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

Secret Security clearance required.
A level of education, training and experience equivalent to a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science or a related discipline;
Minimum of 5 years of handson experience in similar roles for a large enterprise
Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administration
RHEL, OL, & MS high availability cluster technology
Designing and building high availability environments
Linux server hardening and performance tunning
Advanced experience in Unix architecture and security
Advanced UNIX/Linux scripting skills. Shell scripting and coding in python or similar languages
Configuration management using Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc.
Strong troubleshooting, reasoning and problem solving skills
Team player able to be effective in a collaborative team environment; willing to share knowledge and learn from others
Track record for effectively participating in projects through solution development and project management lifecycles
Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English with both clients and internal organizations
Ability to write clear and concise technical documentation in English
Experience working with deployment automation tools such as Jenkins, Ant, Maven
Understanding of LAN/WAN networking, experience switches, firewalls, etc.
Advanced knowledge and experience of modern virtualization and container technologies and of current best practices (VMWare, Hyper-V, docker etc)
Knowledge of and experience in Super Clusters, centralized storage technologies (SANs), ZFS file systems
Highly selfmotivated and capable of working with mínimal supervision
Experience with public cloud (AWS, Azure, OCI, etc) use, administration and architecture an asset.
A minimum of three (3) years of relevant work experience in Solaris 11, UNIX System administration and hardware support and build automation (Scripting, Packaging, Ansible, OpsCenter)

Skills:

Adv Adm
SSO/LDAP/Actv Dir
Backup & Recovery
VMware ESXi
Wintel/Windows Server

What you can expect from us:

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