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System Administrator
Sander Geophysics · Ottawa, ON, Canada
Ottawa, ON, Canada70,000-78,492 CAD/yearlyRemote
Remuneration
70,000-78,492 CAD/yearly
Location
Ottawa, ON, Canada
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The System Administrator will report to the IT Manager and be responsible for the day-to-day administration of Sander Geophysics' infrastructure. This includes maintaining, upgrading, managing, and troubleshooting software, hardware, and networks. The role also involves contributing to security controls, providing technical support, and managing containerized services and virtualization platforms.
Benefits
Comprehensive health coverageDental coverageVision coverageParamedical coverageLife insurancePaid vacationPaid personal leavePaid medical leaveOn-site gymOn-site parkingCompany events
Qualifications
- Post-Secondary Degree or Diploma in computer science or related field, or combined education and experience
- Relevant experience as a System Administrator, Network Administrator, or similar role
- Proficiency with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere and Proxmox VE
- Knowledge of secrets management solutions such as HashiCorp Vault
- Familiarity with CI/CD tooling and version control systems
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform/OpenTofu
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Vector)
- Experience with databases such as MySQL
- Experience with mail transfer agents (Cyrus and Dovecot)
- Experience with networks (LAN, WAN)
- Knowledge of system security (e.g., intrusion detection systems)
- Knowledge of data backup and recovery
- Knowledge of Active Directory as it applies to SAMBA
- Ability to create scripts in Python, Perl, or other languages
- Familiarity with operating systems: LINUX, Windows, MacOS
- Solid understanding of networking and distributed computing environment concepts
- Familiarity with server migration process, security, and hardening of servers
- Ability to produce thorough and effective technical documentation
- Strong interpersonal, teamwork, and communication skills
Responsibilities
- Install and administer software and hardware
- Monitor and maintain physical server infrastructure
- Contribute to the development, implementation, and maintenance of procedures and security controls
- Ensure network performance through testing, monitoring, and statistics reporting
- Contribute to system security administration on designated technology platforms
- Administer network security for perimeter and end-points
- Administer interoperability of information security systems
- Evaluate, deploy, and manage containerized services using Docker
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitLab
- Analyze requirements and design bare-metal Kubernetes clusters
- Design and operate access control reconciliation loops
- Manage virtualization platforms for workload virtualization, VM provisioning, and resource allocation
- Mentor and guide IT staff
- Act as backup in the absence of the IT Manager
- Provide timely technical support to office staff and field crews
- Maintain a high level of technical and operational knowledge
- Maintain good records and documentation
- Organize and monitor the work of junior IT employees
- Provide status reports on projects
- Comply with and promote company safety precautions and policies
Skills
CephDockerGitLabGrafanaKubernetesLinuxLokimacOSMySQLOpenTofuPerlPrometheusProxmoxPythonTerraformVaultVMwarevSphereWindows
Degrees
Post-Secondary Degree or Diploma in computer science
Languages
PythonPerl
Relocation
No