Team Lead - Virtualization

ROSS; Oakville; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment consulting firm in Oakville, Ontario seeks a Team Lead Virtualization to oversee product development for backup and disaster recovery technologies. This role involves leading a talented team, ensuring high-quality software development, and driving innovation through effective mentoring and communication. The ideal candidate has a strong technical background, particularly in virtualization technologies such as VMware and Hyper-V, along with excellent leadership skills.

Benefits

Referral fee of $600 for candidate referrals

Qualifications

• Experience leading a team to develop and deliver high-quality commercial software.
• Ability to help maintain focus under changing priorities.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Investigate, design, implement, and maintain software for backup and recovery.
• Research new technologies to support the business.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to developers.

Skills

Team leadership

Communication

Object-oriented design

C++

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

VMware

Hyper-V

Xen

KVM

Job description

Position Overview

Our Client, is the leading provider of full-service backup and recovery technology has engaged ROSS (www.getROSS.com) to help them recruit a Team Lead Virtualization. ROSS is a team of People Specialists helping companies align their People Strategy with their business growth. We provide remote or onsite HR and Recruitment solutions such as Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) and Recruitment Augmentation.

Team Lead will be involved in working on developing products for Backup and Disaster Recovery on a variety of platforms, with a focus on virtualization. We're looking for someone with strong technical and communication skills and a passion for building great teams and high-quality software.

Responsibilities

• Investigate, design, implement, and maintain software to back up and restore critical business systems, especially in virtualized environments
• Research new technologies and bring forward new ideas to support the business
• Provide mentoring and technical guidance to junior and senior developers, to ensure the team achieves and maintains excellence in architecture, software engineering and communication
• Work closely with both developers and testers in an integrated team to deliver shippable software that meets customer expectations and supports the business's goals

Key skills and experience

• Experience leading a team in the development and delivery (over multiple releases) of high-quality commercial software that integrates with VMware, Hyper-V, Xen, and/or KVM
• Ability to help developers and testers maintain focus while juggling multiple demands and changing priorities
• Object-oriented design and programming, preferably including experience with C++
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt

The ideal candidate will have several of the following

• Experience with system-level programming and debugging (on Windows or Linux/UNIX)
• Experience developing software that integrates with one or more of: Exchange, SQL Server, Sharepoint, MS VSS, Oracle
• Experience writing multi-threaded, multi-process and/or cross-platform software
• Experience with scalability (horizontal and vertical), performance tuning
• Experience working in a SCRUM team
• Experience with Agile methodologies and techniques (e.g. Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Design Patterns)
• Experience with Dynamic programming languages such as Python and Perl
• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent)

If you're not interested, but know someone who is, please help a current or former colleague in their career development by referring them. In addition, we're happy to give you a $600 referral fee.

Click for more details.