System Administrator

Overview:
**Loca**
**tion: Vancouver**

**Department**: IT

**Find a job that lets your imagination run wild**

WildBrain is made up of a team of innovators and creators who bring industry-leading kids’ content and brands to families globally. We inspire imagination, put creativity first, and believe in the power of storytelling. We are constantly connecting the powers of our global team, making WildBrain a collaborative, openminded and passionate environment to work in.

To work at WildBrain means you get to create stories that lets imaginations run wild. Join our team today to become part of the story

**WildBrain** is looking for an experienced
**Systems Administrator** to join our team

**What You’ll Do**:

- Daily manage, troubleshoot, and support of network, server, storage, hardware and software; adhering to standard operating practices
- Analyze systems logs and identifiy potential issues in the system, and plan for proactive remediation as required
- Act as Tier 2 support for any end user related queries; Updates and maintains IT ticketing system, manages to Service Level Agreements
- Ensure all technology implementations adhere to globally-defined architecture standards
- Network Switch Configuration and Management
- Firewall maintenance and support
Plans and execute patching requirements
- Monitor all backups, maintaining data on-site and off-site as determined by business requirements; amend plans as required; and perform regular tests of the restore process from backups
- Develop and adhere to IT standards, and standard operating procedures in order to maintain IT and corporate compliance requirements
- Participate in IT projects by understanding project objectives and scope, following project milestones, phases and elements, sharing technical expertise, and providing recommendations
- Contribute to capacity planning and inventory management
- Any other duties or projects assigned by the Manager

**What You’ll Bring**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Technology or Engineering, or other relevant area of study and/or equivalent job experience
- Working knowledge of with administration of network services (DHCP, DNS, TCP/IP, LAN, WAN, WLAN, VPN, switching, routing)
- Experienced enterprise System Administrator (Windows servers 2008-2019, Active directory, Exchange Server, VMWare, Veeam, MS SQL server)
HPE Comware \ Aruba Network Certification
- Fortinet NextGen FW experience configuration and management
Experience with Enterprise Storage Systems Isilon \ Pure \ HPE
- Experience in preparing technical documents in Visio
- Highly organized and motivated with strong attention to detail
- Must be customer-centric with excellent oral and written communication skills

**Nice to Have**:

- 3+ years of experience in animation and/or film industry
- Degree/Diploma in accredited post-secondary institution or equivalent
- Certifications: ITIL Foundations, MCSE MCSA, vmWare 6 & 6.5;
- Prior working experience within a Broadcast/Media organization
- O365 experience
- Red Hat: RHCSA and RHCE, CompTIA Server+, VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization, ServiceNow Certified System Administrator

**What We Offer**

Working at WildBrain is more than a job — it’s the opportunity to join forces with extraordinary, insightful and imaginative people who will recognize your talents and encourage your professional growth and development in a work environment that promotes creativity and individuality. We offer competitive family-focused benefits, we invest in our people and their future with generous RRSP matching, plus bonus time-off, because you deserve it

**Our Commitment**

Diversity and Inclusion are in our DNA. As a global leader in kids and family entertainment, we strive to reflect and honour the diversity of our audiences around the world. We believe that creating diverse and inclusive content & brands begins with fostering a culture of belonging at WildBrain. To us, a culture of belonging is one where we celebrate and welcome the diversity of all employees, stakeholders, and external partners and strive to create an environment where every individual feels valued, respected, and brings their authentic self to work.

We demonstrate our commitment to this by striving to provide a supportive work environment and a corporate culture that welcomes and encourages equal opportunities for all employees.
**We recognize that people bring experience and talent that goes beyond the technical skills and requirements of a job. If you possess similar experience that is close to what we’ve listed here, we encourage you to please still consider applying. We strongly believe that diverse experience, transferable skills, and passion are key **WildBrain accommodates people with disabilities throughout the recruitment and selection process. Applicants are encouraged to make their needs known in advance if accommodation is required.

**About WildBrain**:
At WildBrain we make great content for kids and