AWS Systems Administrator

dominKnow Learning Systems; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading eLearning company located in Ottawa is seeking an experienced AWS System Administrator to manage and optimize cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have over 3 years of hands-on experience with AWS and expertise in server management and automation. This full-time role offers flexible hours and a supportive team environment focused on professional development.

Benefits

Flexible hours

Fun work environment

Employee social events

Qualifications

• 3+ years related hands-on experience.
• AWS certification is an asset.
• Experience creating and managing ElasticBeanstalk and EC2.

Responsibilities

• Manage production cloud environments.
• Develop and maintain automation of repetitive tasks.
• Perform daily system tasks and monitoring.

Skills

AWS hands-on experience

CloudFormation

Linux scripting languages

Networking tools

Microsoft 365 administration

Tools

VMware

Apache

MySQL

NGINX

Git

Job description

dominKnow Learning Systems (www.dominknow.com) is a leader in the eLearning field, providing international clients with proven cloud software (SaaS) solutions, professional services, and custom content development.

Based in our Kanata offices, we are looking for an AWS System Administrator who will assist in designing, implementing, managing, and monitoring the development and production infrastructure. Demonstrated hands-on experience working with AWS is required in this role. The qualified candidate will also collaborate with other team members to develop automation strategies and deployment processes.

Responsibilities:

• Manage production cloud environments (VMware/AWS)
• Develop and maintain automation of repetitive tasks
• Perform daily system tasks (review of logs, monitoring, backups etc.)
• Help tune performance and ensure high availability of infrastructure and services
• Evaluate, deploy and review infrastructure monitoring and reporting tools
• Develop and maintain configuration management solutions
• Deploy and manage tooling (monitoring, logging, reporting, security)
• Application performance testing and analysis
• Automated and manual application security testing

Experience & Skills Proficiency:

• 3+ years related hands-on experience
• Demonstrated hands-on AWS work experience is mandatory; AWS certification is an asset
• Demonstrated ability to build and monitor production servers and services
• Demonstrated experience creating and updating CloudFormation templates, creating, monitoring, repairing CloudWatch/CloudTrail monitors
• Demonstrated experience creating and managing ElasticBeanstalk, EC2, S3 environments
• Experience installing, configuring, and maintaining services such as Apache, MySQL, NGINX, etc.
• Windows and Linux servers in physical and virtualized environments
• Network and management tools such as Nessus, Zabbix, ipMonitor, SIEM tools & Database Performance Analyzer
• Managing and deploying web applications and servers in PHP or ColdFusion
• PowerShell and task scripting
• Familiarity with the fundamentals of Linux scripting languages
• Familiarity with load balancing, firewalls, etc.
• Experience working with other virtualization technologies, such as VMware
• Microsoft 365 administration
• Experience with Git or Mercurial

To be considered for this position, you currently live in the Ottawa area or are planning to relocate to Ottawa. You must also have existing government authorization to live & work in Canada.

Why join our team?

With more than 20 years in the business and our learner-centric approach to authoring award-winning software for content development, every team member really does make a difference.

At dominKnow, our professional and technical standards are high, but we do it in a comfortable fun work environment with flexible hours, a casual dress-code where there is a great work-life balance.

Our employee social committee organizes fun events.

dominKnow is an equal opportunity employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace. We are committed to complying with the Accessibility for Ontarian’s with Disabilities Act, 2005, and have policies in place to accommodate candidates with disabilities during the selection process.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

COVID-19 considerations: Our team are currently working from home, all employees have been briefed on detailed written workplace safety guidelines.