IT System Administrator

at  Vacances Air Canada Air Canada Vacations

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIRED:

College diploma (or higher) in Computer Sciences
Minimum 5 years Cloud administration with AWS and/or MS Azure platforms
Minimum 5 years experience managing Cisco and/or Fortinet networking equipment – firewalls, routers, switches and access points
Working experience with LogRhytm SIEM an asset
Working experience with f5 LTM, aWAF, and BIG IP DNS an asset
Working experience in management of VMware environments an asset
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator an asset
Certification with any information security standard an asset
CCNA an asset
MCSE an asset
RHCE an asset
VCP an asset
Experience with one or more diagramming tools (e.g., Visio)
Very good analytical and problem solving skills, with extreme commitment to quality and results
Autonomous, dedicated, able to provide on-call 24x7 coverage when required
Extremely organized and diligent in maintaining consistency
Continually strives to improve IT’s customer service delivery
Eager to learn business priorities and criticality of day-to-day operations
Experience in the travel and tour operator industry an asse

Administer cloud IaaS in both AWS and MS Azure
Review and analyze existing Cloud deployments to identify opportunities for improvements and optimization, ensuring alignment with best practices
Demonstrate reliability in managing and supporting AWS infrastructure, with in-depth knowledge of foundational AWS services such as VPC, EC2, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, etc.
Work closely with DevOps and IT OPS teams, actively participating in the deployment and testing of code across multiple pre-production and production environments
Ensure all Servers hardware and software are fully operational and take corrective action where necessary
Administer Redhat Enterprise Linux v7/8/9 servers running in a 24x7 environment
Administer Windows 2016+ servers running in a 24x7 environment
Administer VMware 7+ environments
Perform System Administration tasks including performance tuning, system optimization, disk space planning, print queue management, and job scheduling
Work closely with senior IT team and Information Security team to apply corporate Security framework
Work closely with internal DEV teams to deploy and manage aWAF infrastructure
Monitor, identify, and resolve production capacity, contention, and resource deficiencies
Configure, monitor and maintain the Local and Wide Area Networks
Configure and maintain Security devices pertaining to firewalls, IPS, DDoS, Proxy, LTM and DLP functionalities
Install system patches and updates
Perform hardware and software upgrades
Ability to write Linux and Windows scripts
Document and improve current IT infrastructure, processes, policies and procedures