Systems Administrator, Fall 2026 (Co-op/Internship) - 8 months

Job summary

This co-op/internship position at BMO Financial Group is for a Systems Administrator, focusing on monitoring, restoring service, and supporting mission-critical systems. The role involves ensuring business service levels are met, managing environments, and providing support for infrastructure, applications, and security. Students will gain valuable experience and contribute to the BMO team.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in an academic program and returning to studies
• Motivated with a strong desire to learn
• Understanding of Information Technology operating processes for effective delivery, including IT Operations mandatory operating standards for monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Knowledge of support and operations practice, concepts, and technology
• Technical and/or business functional knowledge of systems, tools, timing, and dependencies
• Technical proficiency gained through education and/or business experience
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing resources in AWS and Microsoft Azure
• Strong administration expertise in Linux (CLI-based) and Windows Server environments
• Experience with Ansible, CDK, CDK TF, CloudFormation
• Solid knowledge and experience in middleware such as IIS, Apache, Tomcat, WebSphere
• Experience troubleshooting application issues from middleware and OS perspective
• Familiarity with GitHub, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps
• Experience provisioning immutable cloud resources
• In-depth verbal communication skills
• In-depth written communication skills
• In-depth collaboration and team skills
• In-depth analytical and problem-solving skills
• In-depth influence skills
• In-depth data-driven decision-making skills

Responsibilities

• Monitor, restore service, change, support, and handle day-to-day activities for mission-critical systems 24/7/365
• Ensure business service levels are met and environments are managed
• Monitor and ensure service restoration of infrastructure, applications, and security, meeting service level agreements
• Provide Help/Service Desk support
• Coordinate and facilitate Incident Management
• Deploy changes to the production environment
• Engage third-party providers during incidents
• Provide immediate response to production program or system problems
• Participate in testing cycles to ensure deployability and operability of infrastructure and applications
• Deploy, implement, and provision applications and infrastructure per deployment plans and build guides
• Work with development teams to build solutions using enterprise monitoring/logging, that are self-healing and require minimal maintenance
• Conduct independent analysis and assessment to resolve strategic issues
• Monitor and track performance, addressing any issues
• Break down strategic problems and analyze data to provide insights and recommendations
• Lead/conduct incident recovery and detailed root cause analysis
• Deploy manual code to production environment
• Facilitate or complete analysis, design, and configuration of solutions for complex technology problems to improve data center and support activities
• Provide end-to-end technology support including computer, applications, network, storage, and root-cause analysis
• Drive and promote new processes, systems, technology, and operations for performance and expanded capabilities
• Proactively monitor system performance and identify operational improvements for customer and business partner delivery

Skills

Work schedule

Industry

Relocation