Senior Systems Administrator

S&C Electric Company; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 88,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

S&C Electric Canada seeks a Senior Systems Administrator, Identity to secure and optimize our identity services across Microsoft Entra ID, AD, and 365. You will govern access, implement multi-factor and conditional access, and coordinate with security and IT teams to ensure least-privilege practices.

The role emphasizes troubleshooting identity issues, maintaining documentation, and supporting audit requests as part of a broader identity modernization program.

Qualifications

• Associate degree or equivalent in IT/CS/Cybersecurity.
• 5+ years in Microsoft hybrid identity environments including Entra ID and AD.
• Experience with audit/compliance activities and access governance.

Responsibilities

• Manage identity and access life cycle, RBAC, and least-privilege controls.
• Configure MFA, conditional access, SSO, and federation settings.
• Monitor logs, sign-in activity, and privileged role usage for risks.
• Troubleshoot complex identity issues with cross-team collaboration.
• Maintain identity docs, SOPs, and audit evidence for compliance.
• Support identity modernization initiatives and integration projects.

Skills

Identity management

Access governance

Security operations

Audit support

Troubleshooting identity issues

Education

Associate degree or equivalent in IT/CS/Cybersecurity

Microsoft identity certification (SC-300) or Azure Security Engineer

Tools

PowerShell

Microsoft Graph

Active Directory

Microsoft Entra ID

365 identity services

Job description

Job Description

As an S&C Electric Canada team member, you’ll work on tasks and projects that have real-world impact. You’ll help transform the grid for resilient and reliable power worldwide. S&C has a history of more than 70 years of innovation in Canada. We continue this legacy as a trusted, forward-thinking leader in the power industry. As a team member, you will advance a safer, more reliable, and more resilient electrical grid. Our products help the grid adapt to severe weather and transition to clean energy. We’re big enough to be a respected industry leader but small enough for you to impact our company directly. Our commitment gives you opportunities to impact on and off the job positively.

As an S&C Electric Canada team member, you’ll work on tasks and projects that have real-world impact. You’ll help transform the grid for resilient and reliable power worldwide. S&C has a history of more than 70 years of innovation in Canada. We continue this legacy as a trusted, forward-thinking leader in the power industry. As a team member, you will advance a safer, more reliable, and more resilient electrical grid. Our products help the grid adapt to severe weather and transition to clean energy. We’re big enough to be a respected industry leader but small enough for you to impact our company directly. Our commitment gives you opportunities to impact on and off the job positively.

Join Our Team as a Senior Systems Administrator, Identity!

Work arrangement

Hybrid (2 days WFH)

Compensation

At S&C, we are dedicated to providing competitive and equitable compensation for all our team members and are committed to transparency in our pay practices. The estimated annual base salary range for this position is $87990 - $116578.8. Individual pay within this salary range is determined by several compensable factors, including performance, knowledge, job-related skills and experience, and relevant education or training. This position may also be eligible for S&C’s annual incentive plan (AIP). AIP amounts are variable and are dependent on both company and individual performance, subject to eligibility criteria. The target bonus percentage for this role is 5% of annual base earnings.

Key Responsibilities

The Senior Systems Administrator, Identity is responsible for the secure administration, support, and continuous improvement of the organization’s identity and access management environment. This role manages user identities, authentication, authorization, access lifecycle processes, privileged access controls, identity governance, and hybrid identity services across Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, Microsoft 365, cloud services, and integrated enterprise applications. The position helps ensure that employees, contractors, applications, and systems have appropriate access based on business need, security standards, compliance requirements, and least-privilege principles.

• Provision, modify, review, and deprovision access in alignment with joiner, mover, leaver, and approved access request processes.
• Implement and maintain role-based access controls, least-privilege access, privileged access management, access reviews, access packages, lifecycle workflows, and identity governance processes.
• Configure and support authentication and authorization controls, including integrations, multifactor authentication, conditional access, passwordless authentication, single sign-on, federation, and application access policies.
• Monitor identity-related alerts, logs, reports, sign-in activity, access review results, and privileged role activity to identify policy exceptions, operational issues, and security risks.
• Troubleshoot complex identity, authentication, authorization, synchronization, service account, application access, and directory issues in partnership with infrastructure, security, application, and support teams.
• Maintain identity management documentation, operational procedures, configuration records, access standards, and audit evidence to support compliance and operational consistency.
• Apply company security standards, change management practices, privacy requirements, and Zero Trust principles when administering identity and access services.

Support identity modernization initiatives, including identity lifecycle automation, application onboarding, privileged access improvements, access governance enhancements, identity reporting, and operational process improvements.

• Support internal and external audit requests by collecting identity, access, privileged role, and control evidence.
• Recommend improvements to access request workflows, approval models, reporting, automation, role design, and access recertification processes.
• Provide guidance to service desk teams, application owners, project teams, and business stakeholders on identity and access procedures.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and remediation activities related to identity and access controls.
• Communicate effectively and respectfully with others and contribute to a collaborative, inclusive workplace.
• Perform other responsibilities as assigned.

What We Are Looking For

• Associate degree, college diploma, or equivalent formal education in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline.
• Equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant work experience may be considered.
• 5+ years of experience administering Microsoft hybrid identity environments, including Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID.
• 5+ years of experience in identity and access management, access administration, security operations, infrastructure administration, or a closely related technology role.
• Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300), Azure Security Engineer Associate, or comparable Microsoft identity certification (within 6 mos).
• Experience with Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management, Conditional Access, Identity Governance, lifecycle workflows, access packages, entitlement management, and hybrid identity synchronization.
• Deep knowledge of identity and access management concepts, including authentication, authorization, least privilege, role-based access control, single sign-on, multifactor authentication, conditional access, privileged access, and access lifecycle management.
• Hands-on experience administering Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, Microsoft 365 identity services, users, groups, roles, licenses, service accounts, and enterprise application access.
• Strong experience supporting audit and compliance activities.
• Ability to analyze access requests, troubleshoot complex identity issues, interpret sign-in and audit logs, and apply security policies accurately.
• Understanding of identity governance practices, including access reviews, privileged access management, account recertification, joiner-mover-leaver controls, and audit evidence collection.
• Proficiency with PowerShell, Microsoft Graph,