Systems Administrator

Turtle Island Staffing; Canada; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A staffing agency is seeking a Senior Virtualization Systems Administrator in Ottawa for a public sector client. The ideal candidate has over 10 years of experience with Hyper-V and VMware and must possess active Secret Clearance. Responsibilities include migrating the production environment, supporting the virtualization infrastructure, and establishing cloud hardware architectures. This is an on-site position requiring profound expertise in managing virtual environments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as a Systems Administrator or IT Architect.
• Active Secret Clearance is an absolute must.
• Experience with Hyper-V and VMware technologies.

Responsibilities

• Migrate the production environment utilizing specified tools.
• Support the virtualization environment and make necessary changes.
• Establish virtual server, virtual desktops, and cloud hardware architectures.

Skills

Systems Administration

Hyper-V

VMware

SVCVMM

Storage Spaces Direct

Data Replication

Disaster Recovery

Tools

Microsoft Hyper-V

VMware

Job description

WON BUSINESS

About the job

Position: Senior Virtualization Systems Administrator (Microsoft Hyper-V & VMware) Client: Public Sector | Location: Ottawa (On-site) | Language: English | Security Clearance: Secret
Background: Our Public Sector client requires a Senior Systems Administrator (Secret cleared) to assist with a migration of their virtualization environment to Hyper-V.

Duration: Current contract goes to October with 2 options.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as a Systems Administrator / IT Architect
• Available to work on-site in Ottawa
• Active Secret Clearance (Absolute must have)
• Experience with the following technologies/tasks as a Systems Administrator or Architect
• • Hyper-V
  • • SVCVMM (System Center Virtual Machine Manager)
    • Host Guardian Services (HGS) Shielding
    • SecureRDP
    • Storage Spaces Direct for Software-Defined Storage
  • VMware
  • • vSAN
    • vMotion
    • NFS Datastores

Expected Tasks

• Migration of the production environment utilizing the above-mentioned tools and technologies.
• Support the virtualization environment and make necessary changes.
• Perform virtual environment and data replication and backups;
• Perform failover procedures of applications/services and data to the Disaster Recovery site;
• Analyze system performance and recommend improvements;
• Establish virtual server, virtual desktops and cloud hardware architectures and produce corresponding technical build documents.