Linux System Administrator

1 week ago

Whitby, Canada Stack IT Full time

**What you’ll do**
- Assist in the design and implement short and long-term strategic plans to ensure infrastructure capacity meets existing and future requirements.
- Conducts research and makes recommendations on products, services, protocols, and standards in support of all infrastructure procurement and development efforts.
- Monitors and analyzes network performance across the organization’s LANs, WANs, and wireless deployments.
- Ensures the stable operation and efficient performance of company networks.
- Monitors system capacity to determine its effect on performance and recommend enhancements to meet new or changing network demands.
- Identifies and remedies network performance bottlenecks.
- Installs and configures all network hardware and equipment, including routers, switches, hubs, UPSs, and so on.
- Handles escalation of problems forwarded by team members either through resolution or coaching.
- Perform VMware vCenter and ESX upgrades and patching
- Develops and maintains system-related documentation to facilitate implementation and/or adoption of system changes.
- Identifies solutions to meet and continuously improve system performance and uptime. Recommends enhancements to meet new system demands.

**What You’ll Need**:

- **Certifications**: that include ITIL, VMware, and Microsoft MCSE are highly valued along with Fortinet NSE4 and NSE7.
- College diploma or university degree in the field of computer science and/or 4 years equivalent work experience.
- Extensive hands-on technical knowledge of TCP/IP protocols, Firewalls, VPN, Routing and NAT’ing.
- Experience with mid to large-size server operations including daily operations and maintenance.
- Experience with project-based work such as migrations, upgrades
- Experience installing, configuring, upgrading, troubleshooting, and managing server environments
- Proficient with Linux or Windows Server (including services - DNS, DHCP, etc), Active Directory, Exchange, RDS Server Farms
- Strong knowledge of network management and analysis tools
- Strong experience with VMware; Clustering, Distributed Switches, vCenter, vRealize ops/log insights, vCloud Director, NSX, DRS, HA, vSAN
- Experience in migrating workloads to/from on-premises to VMware.
- Working knowledge of Azure.
- Experience working and managing blade servers.

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

**Salary**: $70,000.00-$85,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Dental care
- Extended health care
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- RRSP match
- Vision care
- Wellness program

Flexible Language Requirement:

- French not required

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Morning shift

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus pay
- Overtime pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

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

**Experience**:

- system administration: 7 years (preferred)
- VMWare: 4 years (required)
- Linux: 5 years (preferred)
- Virtualization: 5 years (preferred)
- Clusters: 4 years (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Whitby, ON

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