Systems Administrator – Microsoft – Team Lead

Senior Microsoft Systems Administrator and Technical Lead

Industry IT services

Location: Toronto (West Toronto)

Salary range: $80,000/year

Company:

Our client is a fast growing cloud company focusing on managing and operating business critical systems such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) requiring a high availability, secure, predictable environments. The environment fosters learning new technologies and provides opportunities for growth across systems, cloud, cyber-security, networking. They are looking for motivated individuals with strong customer focus to join our team and make a difference every day.

 Position summary:

• You will be a key technical resource in a fast-paced growing environment.
• The Senior Microsoft Systems Administrator / Technical Lead will evaluate, architect, implement, migrate and administer secure high availability environments for servers and web services.
• Provide operational support based on industry best practices and experience in managing cloud infrastructures and virtual environments.
• The successful candidate for this role is a detail-oriented individual with strong hands-on technical knowledge.

Functions and responsibilities :

• Provide advanced Server systems setup, administration, configurations, and automated implementations.
• Troubleshoot and resolve problems as required and serve as one of the highest levels of escalation
• Clearly communicate with peers and end-user clients during troubleshooting, planning, environment migration and more.
• Perform server and application deployments, configurations, updates, and improvements.
• Support functionality and security audits and provide technology recommendations.
• Anticipate and research new cloud and web technologies appropriate to our cloud infrastructure, platform and products.
• Help define, improve, document and promote an architecture and designs based on ITIL “best practices”
• Develop relationships with professional organizations, user groups, and industry trade groups to stay current with latest technologies

Requirements:

• Degree in Information Technology, Engineering or equivalent experience
• 5+ years experience in virtualized technology infrastructure design, implementation and troubleshooting
• 5+ years experience operating Windows Systems Administration and troubleshooting
• Expert domain knowledge and proven experience in at least one of the following areas: Active Directory, Azure, VMware, Remote Desktop Services, Windows Servers
• Areas of knowledge considered a plus: Azure and/or AWS expertise, knowledge of SANs, O365, Linux, Citrix VDI, Experience writing scripts to automate common administrative, deployment and infrastructure tasks
• Willingness to participate in 7/24 on-call rotation to respond to and resolve systems and application issues to ensure the company meets or exceeds committed service level agreements
• Strong organizational skills and the ability the track and prioritize several tasks
• Excellent customer interaction with written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrate teamwork skills, plus ability to work without direct supervision
• Excellent problem-solving skills, along with the ability to work independently, as well as part of a cross-functional global team
• Demonstrated ability to create processes and document work being done
• Basic knowledge of networking and security concepts