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Job Location drjobs

Toronto - Canada

Monthly Salary drjobs

Not Disclosed

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Salary Not Disclosed

Job Description

HM Note: This hybrid contract role is three (3) days in office. Candidates resume must include first and last name. This role commences April 1 2025


Deliverable: and nbsp;Infrastructure and nbsp;Services
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Key and nbsp;Responsibilities: and nbsp;
Provide and nbsp;operational and nbsp;and and nbsp;project and nbsp;support and nbsp; and nbsp;(i.e. and nbsp;account and nbsp;management and nbsp;delegation and nbsp;of and nbsp;rights and nbsp;security and nbsp;patch and nbsp;management and nbsp;build and nbsp;activities) and nbsp;for and nbsp;IT and nbsp;Infrastructure and nbsp;within and nbsp;the and nbsp;Guelph and nbsp;Data and nbsp;Centre and nbsp;and and nbsp;MS and nbsp;Entra and nbsp;(Azure) and nbsp;Tenant and nbsp;for and nbsp;ITSDCOCore and nbsp;ServicesDirectory and nbsp;ServicesActive and nbsp;Directory and nbsp;team.
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Provides highly specialized support for assigned technical aspects of systems administration including for example:
  1. server infrastructure support assistance for the server build kit
  2. performing build integration
  3. implementing and managing backup and the SAN infrastructure.

Provides highly specialized broad systems administration technical leadership expertise and reporting for example: developing and finalizing policies and procedures for management approval (eg: for SANs; scripts to provide maintenance and automation of labour intensive tasks); providing work status reports analyses and technical recommendations and installing new tools as required for operation efficiency and productivity; developing specifications for the tendering process; participating in selecting and negotiating with vendors to develop contracts and SLAs; managing vendors performance alerting management to defaults recommending and implementing solutions; developing and delivering technical education programs for clients and work teams; providing technical mentoring for all systems administration staff including identifying technical strengths and weaknesses and advising them and management of areas for improvement. Contributes authoritative technical expertise to systems administration planning evaluation and budgeting. Ensures that recommendations are congruent with overall work goals and corporate directions. For example: participates in business systems/service needs identification and definition activities with management and clients; researches and evaluates options identifies costs and benefits and makes persuasive recommendations to management; develops detailed specifications based upon client requirements ensuring adherence to standards in support of new scope work.

Plans resources leads coordinates evaluates and reports on highly specialized technical aspects of systems administration work. Leads technical aspects of multiple concurrent or sequential projects including planning estimating resources providing highly specialized technical guidance coordination and instruction monitoring progress and problemsolving and reporting to management with recommendations. Projects cover any aspect of systems administration and include major activities such as: performing critical evaluations of the most complex systems and developing recommendations for improvement; managing technical change installation configuration maintenance and tuning; troubleshooting by anticipating identifying diagnosing and resolving very serious incidents/problems; systems analysis and capacity planning; disaster planning and security.

Provides technical mentoring for assigned system administration staff including guiding and instructing less experienced staff in server and system recovery activities identifying staff technical strengths and weaknesses and advising regarding areas to be improved.

Provides ongoing client service regarding highly specialized aspects of systems administration and manages highly complex operational technical and service aspects of stakeholder relations. Participates in helping users manage change resulting from systems administration decisions and provides changerelated longerterm user support including:
  • dealing with exceptions from the rule and functioning as an authoritative technical interface providing technical expertise and leadership to resolve situations for which there may be no precedent;
  • leading and/or developing and delivering technical education programs for clients and work teams
  • planning and managing technical aspects of server upgrades (eg: CPU Disk memory RAM etc); introducing and/or reengineering business processes among the technical support groups as approved; analyzing recommending and installing new tools for operational efficiency and productivity; leading the installation of tools to improve operational efficiency and productivity (eg: for system monitoring backups build kits load testing tools DNS auditing sniffers packet filtering intrusion detection etc.); ensuring monitoring takes place as required (eg: monitoring CPU memory file system system logs web application and data base servers) providing highly specialized statistical analysis and incident/problem reporting by problem type and providing regular summary reports and highly specialized and ad hoc reports to the iSERV Management Team with technical and procedural change recommendations;
  • chairing incident/problemsolving meetings; analyzing all operational incidents affecting the production server farm and dedicated fully managed server environments and service restoration using interpretative reasoning to deal with specific incidents and problems referred by less experienced technical staff where situations may be very diverse and broad in scope; escalating root cause problems to the iSERV Team Lead; providing all communications to the Team Lead on the escalation and mean time required to repair problems during service disruptions;
  • ensuring that all systems backups and restores are completed as required;
  • performing all highly complex change requests as assigned by the Change CoOrdinator for the production server farm and dedicated servers and documenting/updating server run books; installing and configuring builds for new servers; providing guidance to Senior Analysts and Analysts in loading and testing client applications and 3rd party software; ensuring approved routine server hardware upgrades (eg: CPU Disk memory RAM etc) are performed and that current OS and 3rd party software patches are within the standard iSERV server build including ensuring that anti virus software patches are kept up to date on all servers and web instances;
  • working closely with vendors as appropriate to resolve major/complex hardware and software failures.
  • Performs project operational and service administration activities (eg: scheduling and assigning work; monitoring costs verifying that vendors deliverables have met completely contract requirements before Manager authorizes payment).
  • Management has the right to assign other duties.
Skills
Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Evaluation and nbsp;Breakdown
  1. Knowledge and nbsp;of and nbsp;Enterprise and nbsp;Active and nbsp;Directory and nbsp;and and nbsp;related and nbsp;technologies and nbsp; and nbsp;AD/AAD and nbsp; and nbsp;18%
  2. Knowledge and nbsp;of and nbsp;Enterprise and nbsp;Active and nbsp;Directory and nbsp;and and nbsp;related and nbsp;technologies and nbsp; and nbsp;Migrations and nbsp; and nbsp;17%
  3. Experience and nbsp;working and nbsp;on and nbsp;a and nbsp;team and nbsp;within and nbsp;a and nbsp;large and nbsp;ITIL and nbsp;based and nbsp;organization and nbsp; and nbsp;Troubleshooting and nbsp; and nbsp;18%
  4. Experience and nbsp;working and nbsp;on and nbsp;a and nbsp;team and nbsp;within and nbsp;a and nbsp;large and nbsp;ITIL and nbsp;based and nbsp;organization and nbsp; and nbsp;SWAT and nbsp; and nbsp;17%

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