Aws and Vmware Systems Administrator Ottawa Based

**AWS and VMware Systems Administrator position in Ottawa**

**Responsibilities**:

- Manage production cloud environments (VMware/AWS)
- Manage internal development environment
- Develop and maintain automation of repetitive tasks
- Perform daily system tasks (review of logs, monitoring, backups etc.)
- Help tune performance and ensure high availability of infrastructure and services
- Evaluate, deploy and review infrastructure monitoring and reporting tools
- Develop and maintain configuration management solutions
- Deploy and manage tooling (monitoring, logging, reporting, security)
- Application performance testing and analysis

**Experience & Skills Proficiency**:

- 3 years related hands-on experience required
- 3 years of creating and updating CloudFormation templates preferred
- Demonstrated hands on AWS work experience is mandatory; AWS certification is an asset
- Demonstrated hands on Windows servers (VMware) work experience
- Demonstrated ability to build and monitor production servers and services
- Demonstrated experience creating and updating CloudFormation templates, creating, monitoring, repairing CloudWatch/CloudTrail monitors
- Demonstrated experience creating and managing ElasticBeanstalk, EC2, S3 environments
- Experience installing, configuring, and maintaining services such as Apache, MySQL, NGINX, etc.
- Windows and Linux servers in physical and virtualized environments
- Network and management tools such as Nessus, Zabbix, ipMonitor, SIEM tools & Database Performance Analyzer
- PowerShell and task scripting
- Familiarity with the fundamentals of Linux scripting languages
- Familiarity with load balancing, firewalls, etc.
- Experience working with other virtualization technologies, such as VMware
- Proven troubleshooting skills & techniques
- Microsoft 365 administration
- Experience with Git or Mercurial.

To be considered for this position, you currently live in the Ottawa area or are planning to relocate to Ottawa. You **must also have existing government authorization to live & work in Canada**. Applicants currently not living in Canada will not be considered.

**Why join our team?**

With more than 25+ years in the business and our learner-centric approach to authoring award winning software for content development, every team member really does make a difference

At dominKnow, our professional and technical standards are high, but we do it in a comfortable fun work environment with flexible hours, a casual dress-code where there is a great work-life balance

Our employee social committee organizes fun events

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

COVID-19 considerations:
Our team are currently working from home, all employees have been briefed on detailed written workplace safety guidelines. Our employee joint health & safety committee are assisting in maintaining day-to-day awareness to ensure everyone's safety.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company events
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Discounted or free food
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site gym
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- Vision care
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

COVID-19 considerations:
Currently working from home, all employees have been briefed on detailed written workplace safety guidelines. Our employee joint health & safety committee are assisting in maintaining day-today awareness and compliance to ensure everyone's safety.

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Ottawa, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

- What is your address?
- Do you currently live in Ottawa? This is not a remote work position
- If you are not a Canadian citizen or have Permanent Resident status, do you have current Canadian government authorization to live and work in Canada? If no, please do not apply

**Experience**:

- AWS work: 3 years (required)
- Microsoft Windows Server and VMware: 3 years (required)
- VMWare: 3 years (required)

Licence/Certification:

- AWS Certification (preferred)

Work Location: One location