Senior Systems Administrator - Infrastructure & Cloud
- Toronto, ON, Canada
- Greater Toronto Area, Canada, Canada
$120,000 CAD / year · Full-time
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Job details
- Pay
- $120,000 CAD / year
- Job type
- Full-time
- Apply by
- Experience
- Minimum 7 years of IT infrastructure and server administration experience
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Job title:
Senior Systems Administrator - Infrastructure & Cloud
Duration:
Permanent
Role status:
Current opening
Our client:
A Canadian manufacturer in the Greater Toronto Area, running a continuous production environment supported by a modern in-house IT function.
Intro:
Reporting to the Director of Technology, this role keeps the server and infrastructure estate stable day to day while leading the technical side of the organization's modernization programme - cloud adoption, platform upgrades, and application and data migration. It suits a hands-on senior administrator who wants ownership of the environment rather than a narrow queue, and who is comfortable planning a cutover as well as running the platform afterwards.
Principal tasks and responsibilities include:
Senior Systems Administrator - Infrastructure & Cloud
Duration:
Permanent
Role status:
Current opening
Our client:
A Canadian manufacturer in the Greater Toronto Area, running a continuous production environment supported by a modern in-house IT function.
Intro:
Reporting to the Director of Technology, this role keeps the server and infrastructure estate stable day to day while leading the technical side of the organization's modernization programme - cloud adoption, platform upgrades, and application and data migration. It suits a hands-on senior administrator who wants ownership of the environment rather than a narrow queue, and who is comfortable planning a cutover as well as running the platform afterwards.
Principal tasks and responsibilities include:
- Administering and maintaining the physical and virtual server estate, monitoring performance, capacity and availability
- Owning the Windows Server environment end to end, including Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS and DHCP
- Maintaining storage, backup and disaster recovery platforms, and keeping business continuity processes in place and tested
- Administering Microsoft 365 and the cloud-connected services alongside it
- Planning and carrying out infrastructure upgrades and hardware lifecycle management
- Supporting Azure services across a hybrid estate - virtual machines, storage, networking and identity
- Contributing to cloud migration planning and then implementing it, and monitoring and optimizing cloud consumption and cost
- Leading the technical planning and execution of server, application and data migrations, including cutover and rollback plans
- Moving workloads off legacy platforms onto current ones, and validating migrated data and systems before sign-off
- Supporting ERP, application and wider infrastructure modernization initiatives
- Applying infrastructure security practice: access control, privileged account management, patch management and vulnerability remediation
- Maintaining technical documentation and system architecture diagrams
- Working alongside internal IT staff, vendors and project teams
- Taking part in planned after-hours maintenance and upgrade windows as required
- Minimum 7 years of IT infrastructure and server administration experience
- Minimum 7 years managing Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and Group Policy
- Expert-level Azure: Entra ID, virtual machines, storage, networking and App Services
- Experience with SSO, MFA, Conditional Access, RBAC and advanced security policies
- Experience with VMware, Hyper-V or comparable virtualization technologies
- Experience with backup, disaster recovery and business continuity technologies
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals
- Demonstrated experience leading infrastructure, cloud and ERP migrations
- Microsoft 365 administration experience
- Automation experience with PowerShell, Azure CLI, Terraform or equivalent tooling
- Experience supporting a cloud transformation initiative
- Familiarity with VOIP telephony, label printers and bar code scanners
- Sound understanding of IT service management, and of change and release management procedures
- Able to analyze, evaluate and define needs, and to create and execute implementation test plans
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational and time-management skills
- Excellent communication, customer service and presentation skills, working well independently and as part of a team
- Experience supporting manufacturing production environments is an asset
- Knowledge of budget and vendor management is an asset
- Profit sharing
- Health and dental coverage
- Health care spending account
- Education assistance programme
- Employee assistance programme (EAP)
- Paid holidays and floater days
- Shift premiums
- Company events
More about this job
Responsibilities
Maintain the stability of the server and infrastructure estate while leading the technical execution of cloud adoption and platform modernization. Responsibilities include managing hybrid Azure environments, overseeing data migrations, and ensuring business continuity through robust backup and recovery processes.
Requirements
Requires a minimum of 7 years of experience in IT infrastructure and server administration with expert-level proficiency in Azure and Active Directory. Candidates must have demonstrated experience leading cloud migrations and utilizing automation tools like PowerShell or Terraform.
Skills
- Azure
- Active Directory
- Windows Server
- Microsoft 365
- VMware
- Hyper-V
- PowerShell
- Terraform
- Cloud Migration
- Disaster Recovery
- DNS
- DHCP
- Group Policy
- Network Security
- ITSM
- ERP Support
Benefits
- Profit Sharing
- Health And Dental Coverage
- Health Care Spending Account
- Education Assistance Programme
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Paid Holidays
- Floater Days
- Shift Premiums
- Company Events
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Technology
- Manufacturing
- Software
- Engineering
- Data & Analytics
Keywords
- Azure
- Entra ID
- Microsoft 365
- Active Directory
- Group Policy
- DNS
- DHCP
- VMware
- Hyper-V
- PowerShell
- Azure CLI
- Terraform
- Cloud Migration
- Hybrid Cloud
- Disaster Recovery
- Business Continuity
- SSO
- MFA
- Conditional Access
- RBAC
- ERP
- VOIP
- ITSM
- Change Management
- Release Management
- Patch Management
- Vulnerability Remediation
- Infrastructure As Code
- Manufacturing IT
- System Architecture