Senior Systems Administrator to provide expert Operations Management support for virtual infrastructure and IaC automation tools for a crown corporation cl

Our valued crown corporation client is seeking a Senior Systems Administrator to provide expert Operations Management support for virtual infrastructure and IaC automation tools!

Initial 6-month contract with strong possibility of extension to a total term of 3 years. Hybrid: 10 days per month in Ottawa, ON. 100% Remote candidates will not be considered.

Responsibilities:

• Provide expert Operations Management support for virtual infrastructure and IaC automation tools: VMware vSphere 8.x (VSAN and NSX-T), VMware SRM, EMC RP4VM, VMWare vRealize Orchestration and Automation, Ansible Tower, and Azure DevOps
• Configure real-time/continuous health monitoring on supported technologies
• Resolve incidents and problems related to supported technologies and integrations within SLA specifications
• Execute configuration management changes on supported technologies, as necessary
• Execute standardized request fulfilment within SLA specifications while identifying opportunities to promote task automation by recommending design and implementing features, while ensuring proper testing, and maintaining documentation or release notes
• Apply and maintain adequate cybersecurity controls supported technologies
• Apply and maintain adequate resiliency controls, including the creation and validation of IT Disaster Recovery plans
• Perform technology upgrades/updates/patching ensuring compliance with vendor provided compatibility matrices, and to maintain required cybersecurity controls
• Perform capacity management on IT infrastructure
• Respond to audit requests (i.e.: ad-hoc reporting)
• Perform supported technology functional testing and health checks during change, incident and other activities performed by other teams, as required
• Participate in on-call rotation, as required

Must Have Skills:

• 5+ years of experience working with VMware vSphere 8.x (VSAN and NSX-T), VMware SRM, EMC RP4VM, VMWare vRealize/Aria Orchestration and Automation, Ansible Tower, and Azure DevOps
• Strong demonstrated experience developing and supporting IAC (Infrastructure as Code) with tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Azure
• Strong demonstrated experience in system administration (priority given for VxRail, VSAN, Dell PowerEdge support)
• Demonstrated experience with technical decision-making needed to support a 24/7/365, multi-tiered large-scale production environment

Nice-to-have Skills:

• ITIL certified
• TOGAF certified
• Agile certifications