System Administrator

Job title: System Administrator - Virtual Infrastructure, 2025-022

Location: Ottawa

Contract: Yes

Type of work: Hybrid (required 10 days on-site per month at the Bank of Canada Head Office in Ottawa)

Start Date: 16/06/2025

Term: December 31, 2025

Extension : 28 months

Clearance: Secret

Responsibilities:

Provide expert Operations Management support for virtual infrastructure and IaC automation tools: VMware vSphere 8.x (VSAN and NSX-T), VMware SRM, EMC RP4VM, VMWare vRealize Orchestration and Automation, Ansible Tower, and Azure DevOps

• Configure real-time/continuous health monitoring on supported technologies

• Resolve incidents and problems related to supported technologies and integrations within SLA specifications

• Execute configuration management changes on supported technologies, as necessary

• Execute standardized request fulfilment within SLA specifications while identifying opportunities to promote task automation by recommending design and implementing features, while ensuring proper testing, and maintaining documentation or release notes

• Apply and maintain adequate cybersecurity controls supported technologies

• Apply and maintain adequate resiliency controls, including the creation and validation of IT Disaster Recovery plans

• Perform technology upgrades/updates/patching ensuring compliance with vendor provided compatibility matrices, and to maintain required cybersecurity controls

• Perform capacity management on IT infrastructure

• Respond to audit requests (i.e.: ad-hoc reporting)

• Perform supported technology functional testing and health checks during change, incident and other activities performed by other teams, as required

• Participate in on-call rotation, as required

• Other related activities and deliverables, as required

Required Qualification:

A minimum of five (5) years of demonstrated experience working with VMware vSphere 8.x (VSAN and NSX-T), VMware SRM, EMC RP4VM, VMWare vRealize/Aria Orchestration and Automation, Ansible Tower, and Azure DevOps

Demonstrated work experience in each of the following: A scripting language, such as PowerShell or Python and in creating automation scripts, deploying orchestration and automation processes and products

Developing and supporting IAC (Infrastructure as Code) with tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Azure, etc.

System administration (priority given for VxRail, VSAN, Dell PowerEdge support)

Demonstrated ability to work individually or as part of a team

Demonstrated experience with technical decision-making needed to support a 24/7/365, multi-tiered large-scale production environment

Additonal qualification:

ITIL certified

TOGAF certified

Agile certifications

Note: Must have Secret Clearance