Azure Cloud Systems Administrator – Hybrid (Montreal/Quebec)

Equisoft Inc. (Canada); Montreal; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Pension plan

Telemedicine program

Employee assistance program

And more

Job summary

Equisoft is seeking a Systems Administrator (Azure Cloud) in Canada to join a team of infrastructure specialists. You will administer, secure, and monitor environments in Azure, supporting development, test, and production systems while ensuring reliability and up-to-date configurations.

Work closely with the Product Development Manager and six other specialists. You’ll apply IaC and GitOps, manage access controls and certificates, and optimize cloud usage to reduce costs.

Qualifications

• Technical degree or diploma in computer engineering or IT.
• 5+ years of systems administration experience in Azure environments.
• Experience maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps).
• Strong knowledge of Linux and Windows Server administration, networking, storage, and databases; scripting skills.
• Solid understanding of security practices.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Grafana/Prometheus/Loki.
• Fluent in French and English (spoken and written).

Responsibilities

• Administer, stabilize, and secure Azure-hosted environments; support development and support teams daily.
• Install, configure, patch, and upgrade servers, databases, and infrastructure components; automate tasks.
• Diagnose and resolve production incidents in coordination with teams.
• Manage accounts, access controls, certificates, and compliance; implement security best practices.
• Apply infrastructure as code and GitOps practices with Terraform, OpenTofu, FluxCD, ArgoCD.
• Monitor, optimize performance, availability, and security; provide proactive recommendations.
• Respond to requests, investigate issues, and apply corrective measures.
• Optimize cloud usage to reduce operating costs.

Skills

Azure Cloud

Linux & Windows Server

CI/CD pipelines

Scripting: Bash/PowerShell/Python

Security practices

Monitoring & logging

Entra ID / Active Directory

Bilingual: French & English

Education

Technical Bachelor's degree in CS/IT

Tools

OpenTofu

Terraform

FluxCD

ArgoCD

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Equisoft is seeking a Systems Administrator (Azure Cloud) in Canada to join a team of infrastructure specialists. You will administer, secure, and monitor environments in Azure, supporting development, test, and production systems while ensuring reliability and up-to-date configurations.

Work closely with the Product Development Manager and six other specialists. You’ll apply IaC and GitOps, manage access controls and certificates, and optimize cloud usage to reduce costs.