- Pay Rate: $52.50/hour, depending on experience
- Contract Length: 2 years
- Location: Calgary, Alberta
Raise is currently hiring a
Application Administrator on behalf of our client. They’re expanding their team to meet growing needs, making this a unique opportunity to work with an industry leader.
Note: The primary pay rate is based on T4 classification; however, we will also consider applications from candidates interested in an INC classification, where applicable.
Description
The Application Administrator has overall accountability of the applications they support. This role interacts with other administrators (server, network, database) and project teams to ensure application availability and to maintain the technical environment, including software, security/access management, capacity management, monitoring and performance. This position also acts as the Tools Specialist responsible for the tools supporting the applications. This includes development of, configuration of, and knowledge of requirements management and other tools. The Application Administrator monitors and manages IT configuration items and verifies they work to the defined specifications.
An Application Administrator also provides support as analyst for business (internal and external) and IT teams bridging the gap between technology solutions and business functions.
Accountabilities Include
- Provide Support for Mission Critical Applications by managing prod and non-prod environments.
- Deploy new applications and releases in collaboration with cross functional IT team.
- Deploy application using some of these technologies: Tomcat, Azure API, Entra ID, JDBC, Java EE/SE, Redis, Spring boot/Hibernate, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Python, PowerShell and security certificates
- Manage capacity, availability, continuity and security of various applications environments.
- Monitor applications performance Logs, investigate issues and execute tuning and maintenance tasks.
- Perform service restoration tasks and activities related to incident, problem, change and release management processes.
- Deliver high-quality results on assigned applications project tasks.
- Ensure compliance of mission critical systems with our clients standards
- Automate application administration functions using appropriate technology.
- Support datacenter maintenance, annual business continuity and IT security exercises as Application Administrator
- Provide 24X7 on-call support on rotation with four other application administrators.
- Must have experience working with Windows servers, Red hat Linux, Oracle, PostgreSQL and MS SQL server databases
Qualifications
- 3 – 5 years industry experience
- 8-10 years’ IT experience including application deployments and support
- Must have experience with some of these technologies: Tomcat, Azure API, Entra ID, JDBC, Java EE/SE, Redis, Spring boot/Hibernate, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Python, PowerShell and security certificates.
- Preferably having a utilities market or industry background
- Experience with financial markets, clearing and settlement (nice to have)
- Education and Certifications
- Degree in Computer Science, IT or related field, or a Diploma in IT Administration with equivalent work experience
- DevOps experience preferred
Looking for meaningful work? We can help!
Raise is an established hiring firm with over 65 years of experience. We believe strongly in making the world a better place through work, which is why we’re a certified B Corporation and donate 10% of our profits to charity.
We strive to build teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, including people from traditionally underrepresented groups such as women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as LGBTQ2SI, veterans, and people with visible/nonvisible disabilities.
We have a dedicated webpage for accommodations where you can learn more about what we offer and request accommodation: https://raise.jobs/accommodations/
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