Senior System Administrator Storage/backup

**Position Description**:
Do you want to delight your customer by offering innovative solutions to their complex technical problems? CGI is growing and looking for talent to lead the way with us. You have the soul of a pioneer and you have a passion for innovative projects where you influence the direction of the technical strategy. Join a dynamic team and help us meet the growing demand of our customers.

**Your future duties and responsibilities**:
**Responsibilities**:

- Deliver work that meets or exceeds established business and technical design requirements, approved architecture and technical standards, quality assurance, service levels, and continuous improvement goals.
- Look for ways to improve the infrastructure environment in regards to security, stability and sustainability.
- Provide mentorship to junior and operations staff helping to resolve issues as required.
- Bring a solid understanding of current best practices and industry standards.
- Participate in root cause analysis of high priority (P1 & P2) operational failures; incorporate learnings into solution designs to prevent future failures.
- Build, review and maintain technical standards in conjunction with operations and enterprise architecture.
- Evaluate technical deviations from current standards, present technical deviation recommendations to stakeholders, and provide final approval for all technical deviations.
- Research, select and deploy the best applicable technology for systems development/maintenance and production Operations.
- Identify impacts to existing infrastructure capacity.
- Evaluate non-functional characteristics including performance, availability, scalability, resilience.
- Review environments for production and non-production (development, test, QA, training) and provide recommendations for on-going improvement and sustainability.
- Work with Operations to ensure delivered solutions are supportable, serviceable and meet business requirements & SLA's.
- Identify software licensing impacts (where relevant).
- Ensure changes to existing services are made in a controlled manner: i.e. include impact assessment in consultation with the business and technical owners, regression testing of any impacted systems, and planned migration into production.

As required:

- Implement and document system administration procedures for Operations coverage and end users.
- Maintain configurations and optimize system designs.
- Participate in design and architecture of proposed new systems and support tools solutions.

**Required qualifications to be successful in this role**:
Qualifications:
**Requirements**:

- Minimum seven (7) years of experience in Storage/Data Protection support and solution design capacity in Enterprise environments
- Undergraduate degree required in computer science, engineering, or related discipline with an information technology focus (preferred)

Bilingual ( English & French) both verbal and written

Ability to obtain a Government of Canada Security Clearance of Level II ( Secret)
- Demonstrated ability to work both independently and with others
- High level of creativity and innovation in problem solving
- High level of analytical ability to deal with complex problems
- Relevant manufacturer technical certification in Storage / Data Protection (hardware / software), Netapp preferred, Cohesity experience highly desirable

** Bilingualism (French and English) is required for this position due to the nature of the role requiring interaction with national and global clients

Technology areas of expertise:

- Enterprise class Storage and Data Protection systems and supporting hardware (physical and virtual), software and tools, including but not limited to
- Netapp and ONTAP
- Symantec Netbackup
- EMC Isilon, ExtremeIO and VNX
- Cohesity
- High Availability solutions such as clustering, load balancing, replication, etc.
- Storage platform refresh / upgrade and migration
- IT Service Continuity services
- Equipment, Software, Component and Services Monitoring
- Performance and utilization data collection, and recurring performance tuning
- Authenticiation services
- Domain Name Services (DNS)
- Out-of-band management ("OOBM") access for Lights out Operation ("LOM")
- Storage devices and sub-systems
- Storage connectivity such as Power-path, Multi-Path IO ("MPIO"), Dynamic Multipath (DMP), FCIP, iSCSI, CommVault, etc.
- File systems and protocols, including NAS systems and file shares
- Shell programming scripts
- TCP/IP networking and security
- Physical Data Centre requirements related to Infrastructure equipment (i.e. physical space management, power, cooling and cabling requirements, etc.)

**Skills**:

- DNS / DHCP
- NET App
- TCP/IP

**What you can expect from us**:
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