Systems Administrator

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Personal Spending Account

Up to $500 to spend on anything related to physical, mental or financial well-being (in addition to your Health Care Spending Account)

17 Paid Days Off (in addition to 13 Personal Days)

This includes an extra day off during the month of your birthday - our gift to you

An IDEAS (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Awareness, Solidarity) team ️

Weather is inclusive, we will be too. Our IDEAS team is committed to making this happen

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You will be responsible for managing, maintaining, and supporting I.T. infrastructure to meet the overall stability, reliability, and performance requirements of Pelmorex from an operational perspective. You will accomplish this primarily through process and product monitoring, documentation, and implementation via proper change management processes and operational procedures.

This is a hybrid role. You are required to be onsite at our Oakville office a minimum of 2 days a week and as needed. You are also required to be on-call in rotation with other Systems Administrators to provide production support after business hours

• Implement, support, and monitor the assigned operating systems (Linux, and Windows are mandatory).
• Conduct investigations of specific operational areas and analyze the performance of existing systems; generate improved designs of these systems; and run pilot implementations in the testing environment.
• Participate in service capacity planning, demand forecasting, software performance evaluation, and system tuning.
• Provide the development department with required information and support when required (performance metrics, bandwidth usage, etc.).
• Your technical skills will be put to the test while you keep assigned systems and data transfer operational 24/7, support more than 500 servers, including virtual and cloud environments, and, monitor systems and products daily to ensure systems are performing as expected. This includes applications, system logs, and keeping performance metrics. Any irregularity should be investigated, resolved in a timely manner, and documented.

• You’ll take charge of planning and implementation of regular maintenance for assigned systems to minimize downtime. This includes patches, service packs, and hot-fixes as needed, as well as any required upgrades, and:
• Adhere to established operation service level agreements in consultation with end users (BU) to establish problem resolution expectations and timeframes.
• Collaborate with team members to determine the root cause of problems and best practices for efficient resolution.
• Implement effective documentation, monitoring, disaster recovery (i.e., back-ups), user support systems and practices.
• Provide knowledge transfer, coaching, and act as a mentor to other junior staff.
• Assist the IT operation manager in capacity planning for all systems; perform regular snapshots of system performance.

• You’ll conduct research in support of help desk technology and communicate these findings to the Operations team with the objective of improving on system efficiency and lowering operational costs, and:
• Install and configure server software and server based application packages in a physical and virtual VMware environment, including physical installations in the computer room.
• Create and maintain where required: records of licenses documentation and media libraries, inventory records, etc.
• Provide creative technical solutions with limited resources.
• You’re a team player who will be there to participate in the on-call rotation as assigned (weeknights/weekends)

• Degree or Diploma in Computer Science or Engineering5+ years of related experience
• Solid knowledge of Windows and Linux environments
• Solid experience administering VMware environment.
• Strong work experience with Cloud administration of AWS, GCP and Azure platforms
• Good experience with writing scripts to automate operations, server management and auto scaling.
• Good knowledge of automated Configuration Management tools such as CFEngine, Puppet, etc
• Knowledge of web serving software, including Apache, IIS, NGINX, Varnish
• Solid experience with scripting languages: Perl, Python, PowerShell, bash
• Good knowledge of networking: routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, IDS, VPN, DNS, etc.
• Experience with systems performance monitoring and alerting, knowledge of tools such as Grafana/ Prometheus , Pingdom.
• Basic Networking experience and understanding of underlying principles such as TCP/IP, VLANs, subnetting, etc.
• Hands on experience working with development tools: git, Jenkins, Sonar and good understanding of pipeline framework.
• Proven experience working with Continuous Delivery pipelines, including implementation of microservices, containers, and Kubernetes deployments.

• You’re a visionary who is excited about emerging products, services, protocols and standards.
• You thrive in a time sensitive, high pressure environment.
• You’re a team player passionate about people, culture, and working in a collaborative environment.
• You’re self-motivated, know how to take initiative and demonstrate leadership.
• You’re a creative thinker with the ability to present ideas in user-friendly language to non-technical staff and end users.
• You have the ability to conduct research into a wide range of computing issues and are innovative with an outside-of-the-box approach always looking to add value.
• You have outstanding communication, analytical, organizational, and time management skills. You know how to get things done

• Course Reimbursement Program We want you to keep learning, so we can too
• Open and transparent communication, including All Hands Meetings with our CEO
• Pelmorex Learning Academy includes offerings like French, Leadership (for people leaders and non-leaders alike), yoga, mindfulness
• Your mental health is important to us We partner with Inkblot for virtual counseling sessions
• Frequent employee pulse surveys we value your feedback so we can continue to make Pelmorex a great place to work
• Free online doctor visits ️ with Maple Online Healthcare
• While we encourage 1:1 conversations, we recognize that not everyone is comfortable with speaking up We have an anonymous reporting platform (Speakfully) to ensure everyone’s voice is heard

OUR PROMISE TO YOU...

We’re highly focused on doing the right thing.

We’ll discuss issues and timelines professionally, so you have the time you need to do the best work you can

You will see the result of your work pushed out to real users quickly

We’re a team that enjoys learning new technologies and we’re open to trying new things

We’ll try our best not to bog you down with boring meetings

Through constant innovation and entrepreneurship, Pelmorex has grown to reach consumers around the globe, has become one of the largest weather information providers and has broken new ground in providing data solutions and insights to businesses. Through harnessing the value of weather, Pelmorex is driven to make the world smarter and safer for consumers and businesses. #youwanttoworkhere