Lead, System Administration

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Job Title:
Lead, System Administrator

Job Location:
Mirabel, QC

Job Schedule:
Day Shift

The Lead System Administrator is responsible for the integration, configuration, monitoring, troubleshooting, upgrading, enhancement, and maintenance of the enterprise computer systems.

• Participation and execution of corporate projects deployed across the company;
• Planning and coordination of projects or changes to computer systems with various stakeholders (internal or external) and impacted departments;
• Administration of virtual desktop environments (Horizon VDI);
• Management, installation, configuration requirements, monitoring, and upgrade of Microsoft Server and Microsoft Workstations and Linux servers;
• Management and configuration of the VMware Cloud Foundation (vSphere, etc.);
• Management of Dell server hardware and storage;
• Contribution to the disaster recovery plan (DRP) and IT security;
• Configuration of the Veeam data backup system;
• Keep current with changing technologies.

• Collegial Degree (DEC) or Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or equivalent;
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in information technology and in systems administration;
• Bilingualism required (French / English);
• Passionate about computing with excellent learning and adaptability capacity, autonomous and resourceful, oriented on result, efficient and meticulous;
• Ability to manage and deliver projects through daily operations;
• Ability to develop and apply new approaches and work methodologies;
• Team player, collaboration with cross‑functional teams, and communication proficiency. In addition to creating/updating documentation and stakeholder interaction;
• Methodical management and planning of changes and projects;
• Knowledge of the aeronautics domain, an asset.

• Expertise of Linux systems;
• Knowledge of the VMware virtualization layer (vSphere, vCenter, etc.);
• Management of Dell infrastructures (Power Edge, Open Manage, iDrac, Power Vault, etc.);
• Proficiency in Veeam backup technology;
• General knowledge in networks and telecommunications (VLAN, VxLAN, etc.).

• Systems administration in IBM Power
  
  VM / IBM AIX / Unix environment;
• Management of Virtual Desktop Environments (VDI) under VMware Horizon and RDS;
• Management of Microsoft servers and services (Active Directory, Windows Server, Remote Desktop Service (RDS), GPO, DFS, DNS, DHCP, security certificates, etc.);
• Management of Atlassian Jira / Confluence servers;
• Dassault 3
  
  Dexperience / Enovia / CATIA environment;
• Administration of engineering, machining, and software development systems and software;
• Management of Dell Wyse thin client environments (Wyse Management Suite, Thin Client, etc.);
• Administration of Nutanix and Nutanix Prism;
• Experience with high‑availability architecture (clusters, replication strategies);
• Scripting and automation skills (Power Shell, Bash, Python) for system efficiency.

• Must be eligible for registration with the Controlled Goods Program;
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a government of Canada Reliability status and Secret Level 2/NATO Secret security clearance;
• Must be eligible to meet the requirements for U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).

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