Senior System Administrator

**Senior System administrator - Windows**:
**Category**: Infrastructure/Cloud

**Main location**: Canada

**Position ID**: J1022-1559

**Employment Type**: Full Time

**Meet our professionals**:
**CGI Global - We are CGI_EN**

**Position Description**:
The person who gets this position will join our dynamic team to work on challenging projects and environments. You will have many opportunities to work with our clients and contribute to meet their objective. CGI also offer excellent personalize training program and career development.

As a Windows infrastructure delivery SME, you will be working on several big initiatives within the business. This role will require communication and interaction with multiple internal and external clients to ensure each module interacts properly with each other.

The senior system administrator will also troubleshoot issues and develop new enhancements to achieve targeted results. If you have experience in infrastructure implementation/migration and development and are excited about continuous learning opportunities, we want to hear from you.

**Your future duties and responsibilities**:

- Lead solution design, provide specifications and work plans that meet or exceed established business and technical requirements
- Participate in design and architecture of new systems and support tools solutions
- 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 as required
- 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.
- Collaborate with Operations team to ensure 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
- Implement and document system administration procedures for Operations coverage and end users
- Maintain and update standards in configurations and optimize system design
- Able to provide mentorship to junior and helping colleagues to resolve issues as required
- Bring a solid understanding of current best practices and industry standards
- Participate in root cause analysis of high priority failures; incorporate learnings into solution designs to prevent future failures

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

- Minimum Five (5) years + of experience in Wintel server support and solution design capacity in Enterprise environments
- Education: Undergraduate degree required in computer science, engineering, or related discipline with an information technology focus (preferred)
- 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 Wintel servers (hardware / software)

Technology areas of expertise:

- Enterprise class Windows Server operating systems 2003 to 2019 and supporting hardware (physical and virtual), software and tools
- Windows Servers planning / design / deployment and migration from P2V or V2V
- Strong experience deploying and managing ESX Host VMware infrastructure. Good troubleshooting skills in Vmware vCenter & ESXi servers
- A good understanding of Hypervisors (in particular VMware and Hyper-V) and virtualization of Operating Systems, networks, and storage from a design perspective would be beneficial
- A good understanding of High Availability solutions such as clustering, load balancing, and replication
- Work with Forests and Domains
- Maintains the Group Policy infrastructure based on the policies and guidelines provided.
- Good knowledge of Azure infrastructure or AWS infrastructure

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**Skills**:

- Active Directory
- Backup & Recovery
- Ent Repository (GPO, AD, LDAP)
- VMware ESXi
- Wintel/Windows Server
- French

**What you can expect from us**:
**Insights you can act on**

While technology is at the heart of our clients’ digital transformation, we understand that people are at the heart of business success.

When you join CGI, you become a trusted advisor, collaborating with colleagues and clients to bring forward actionable insights that deliver meaningful and sustainable outcomes. We call our employees "members" because they are CGI