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Introduction
System Administrators are the gatekeepers to the many systems that run our company and our clients. As a System Admin with IBM, you will have the opportunity to provide high-value IT services and leverage our leading-edge technology portfolio in our global network. Your work has a direct impact on the day-to-day productivity of our business by ensuring integrity of, and access to, our most important resource: data.

Your Role and Responsibilities
Position Overview

The System Administrator, accompanied by the IT Operations Manager oversees the perfect condition of the company hosted on Data Centers and Cloud. The role is to ensure that all the hardware, instance, network, and solutions are running smoothly for our customers and our developers. The system Administrator as a part of the core operation team is part of infrastructure project and must ensure data integrity, security and all linked tasks.

The role requires a high level of ethics / honesty, rigor and flawless organization given the criticality of our payment offerings.

Main responsibilities

• Plan and participate in the implementation, administration, maintenance and evolution of the technological environment and ensure proper documentation and functional analysis
• Ensure stability, security and performance of the technological environment to keep inline with our availability and service level agreements.
• Improve the processes and automate procedures to simplify and diminish human errors for all team members.
• Maintain and improve the system’s back-up technology, security and reliability.
• Validate, recommends and participate in the periodical software and hardware patches.
• Ensure all the required information for implementing, administrate and operating our datacenters and cloud and promote knowledge transfer, training and sharing.
• Supervise back-ups integrity and testing for data recovery
• Participate in any possible security tightening with the help of the internal security team
• May be require participating in scheduled outside hours rotations as a primary or secondary to ensure our clients do not get any payment penalty.

This role can be performed from Ontario and Quebec

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• University degree in computer science or equivalent experience
• 3 to 5 years of relevant experience in similar position
• Command of different OS: RedHat, Centos, Linux and Windows
• Proficiency in hardware, software, networking, maintenance and patching
• Experience with vCenter
• Experience with backup solutions such as TSM Spectrum Protect
• Experience with Alerting systems such as Nagios and PagerDuty

A clear credit check is a requirement for this role

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Knowledge and understanding of Ansible
• Knowledge of Active Directory and/or FreeIPA or related services
• Knowledge or Networking and Security systems (Access Management, Authentication Policies, group management, route management etc.)
• Knowledge or interest in Cloud/Hybrid Architecture (AWS, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Terraform)

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.