System Administrator

2 weeks ago


Ottawa, Canada CGI Full time

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.

Insights you can act on

While technology is at the heart of our clients’ digital transformation, we understand that people are at the heart of business success.

When you join CGI, you become a trusted advisor, collaborating with colleagues and clients to bring forward actionable insights that deliver meaningful and sustainable outcomes. We call our employees "members" because they are CGI shareholders and owners and owners who enjoy working and growing together to build a company we are proud of. This has been our Dream since 1976, and it has brought us to where we are today — one of the world’s largest independent providers of IT and business consulting services.

At CGI, we recognize the richness that diversity brings. We strive to create a work culture where all belong and collaborate with clients in building more inclusive communities. As an equal-opportunity employer, we want to empower all our members to succeed and grow. If you require an accommodation at any point during the recruitment process, please let us know. We will be happy to assist.

Ready to become part of our success story? Join CGI — where your ideas and actions make a difference.
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 non-functional characteristics including performance, availability, scalability, resilience
- Review environments for production and non-production (development, test, QA, training) and provide recommendations for on-going 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 hands-on 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
- Understandi



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