Systems Administrator

Job Description

We are currently looking for a Systems Administrator to join our team in our Toronto office. This role will provide support for the infrastructure and applications in our studio, utilizing a mixture of Windows, Mac and Linux workstations.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• You have an engineering background, developing and delivering solutions using automation, configuration management, and security best practices
• You are familiar with Infrastructure as Code, incorporating automated builds, monitoring, and virtualization.
• You are familiar with monitoring systems, utilizing tools like Zabbix, Graphite, Prometheus, Grafana, Graylog, CollectD, StatsD, DataDog, etc.
• You have hands-on experience with VMWare and VDI
• Your Windows and Linux-Fu is strong, including scripting and troubleshooting.
• You have experience with automation and configuration management (Puppet, Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
• Experience with Cisco and Juniper network devices (routers, switches, firewalls)
• You have the people skills required to successfully work with domain experts and interface with clients.
• You have worked in an operational support role with after-hours on-call responsibilities
• You have ITIL Knowledge (Incident, Change and Problem Management) and tools

Experience:

• Degree or diploma in an IT related discipline or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 2 years working experience
• Preference will be given to candidates with prior Media & Entertainment / VFX experience
• Experience building and maintaining enterprise workstations and infrastructure with a healthy mix of:
  • Linux, Windows, Mac, networking, storage, and virtualization
  • Experience with Azure Active Directory, Google Workspace
  • Linux Server/Desktop provisioning and configuration management
• Scripting experience with Bash or Powershell
• Experience with AWS/Azure and related orchestration tools
• RHCE, RHCA or MCSE and cloud certifications are an asset.
• Monitoring and alerting with tools like Nagios, New Relic, DataDog and/or Prometheus
• The ability to lift up to 50lbs

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d58673-3-133-121-160-42 in your application.