About Our Client:
Our client, a public sector organization with high-impact services, is seeking a Microsoft System Administrator for a Hybrid permanent position to join their Downtown Toronto office.
Responsibilities:
•Collaborates with M365 and Cloud Engineers to roll out new infrastructure, infrastructure applications and supports the implementation of new security applications and technology.
•Develops and maintains security documentation, policies, and procedures. Participates in security audits and compliance activities. Stays up to date on the latest security threats and vulnerabilities.
•Installs, configures, and maintains infrastructure applications including but not limited to Microsoft M365, Azure, Teams, Exchange, Defender, BitLocker, CRM, PowerBI, SharePoint and VEEAM Data Protection Tools which collectively support such functions as telephony, customer relationship management, configuration management, data repositories, web content management, secure remote access and data protection.
•Administers and supports cloud services, including Azure virtual machines, storage, networking, and security. Configure and maintain EntraID for user authentication and authorization. Implement and maintain security policies and configurations within M365 and Azure.
•Monitors the performance and availability of M365 and cloud (Azure) services. Troubleshoots and resolve issues related to M365 and Azure. Automates tasks and processes within M365 and Azure using PowerShell or other scripting languages. Manages and maintains M365 licenses and subscriptions. Plans and executes migrations to M365 and Azure.
•Installs, configures and maintains the development environment, UAT environment and test facilities for PHO infrastructure applications, assists in testing and deploying infrastructure management and security software and develops, tests and deploys other relevant software applications, including scientific.
•Collaborates with the engineering team to deploy large‐scale data storage, virtualization, high performance computing and cloud‐based systems and provides guidance on future software and hardware deployment; transitions applications to the Production environment, including scientific software.
•Configures and maintains storage and disk groups (e.g., RAID, LUNs, LUN masking) as necessary.
•Installs, configures, and maintains Linux/Unix (Ubuntu/Red Hat/Solaris) based systems on bare metal and in a VMware ESX and Linux KVM environments.
•Installs, configures, provides services from and maintains Microsoft Windows Server based physical hardware to support a complex VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V virtualized computing environment along with cloud-based solutions such as Azure & AWS. Ensures the implementation of appropriate recovery mechanisms throughout the different levels of hardware and software abstraction.•
Provides technical support and administration of high speed and secure LAN and WAN, deployment of new hardware and software.
•Provides 1st and 2nd level technical support to problem resolution and technical advice and support to PHO business staff and IMIT colleagues.
•Collaborates with Network, M365, cloud, and Cyber Security engineers to deploy and maintain system security measures, tests the infrastructure and applications using industry-accepted tools such as penetration testing and identifies weak points and vulnerabilities and recommends solution to improve protection.
•Performs problem resolution including root cause analysis across the infrastructure (on-premises and cloud based), network and applications including analysis of performance and incident logs.
•Engages key stakeholders and undertakes postmortem reviews of high severity incidents including documenting cause, impacts, resolution and recommendations to avoid recurrence and presents to senior staff and manager.
•Creates or updates and enhances Standard Operating Procedures and documentation for infrastructure and security services, using guidelines focused on ease of understanding and completeness. Disseminates and explains to users and colleagues.
•Researches and evaluates new technologies and bioinformatics and bio-computing, identifies those that can improve services and processes within the department and the business as a whole and makes recommendations to Manager, Digital & Cyber Security Operations.
•Provides technical advice, problem solving and troubleshooting in support of PHOL surveillance and PHOL informatics needs as they develop.
Requirements:
•Undergraduate degree in computer science or industry certifications in relevant systems, network, M365, Azure and security administration.
•5 years of experience with Microsoft system administration and application administration.
•Experience with PowerShell scripting for M365 and Azure automation.
•Experience in network storage technologies (SAN, NAS, NFS, Samba, GlusterFS, RAID, AutoFS).
•Experience with hardware virtualization and related technologies (KVM, XEN, VMware, Virtual Box).
