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About the role

  • Systems Administrator managing Pelmorex’s weather forecasting technology infrastructure. Supporting Linux, Windows, cloud, virtualization, Kubernetes, and production operations in Oakville.

Responsibilities

  • Manage, maintain, and support Pelmorex IT Operations
  • Monitor, troubleshoot, document, automate, and implement approved changes and operational procedures
  • Support approximately 70% Linux and 30% Windows environments
  • Install, configure, maintain, patch, upgrade, and troubleshoot Linux and Windows servers and server-based applications across physical, virtual, and cloud environments
  • Administer Windows Active Directory, Group Policy, permissions, and service accounts
  • Monitor service health, logs, performance, resource utilization, and data transfers
  • Provide escalated support for incidents and service requests
  • Restore service, communicate impact and progress, document actions, and escalate to teams or vendors
  • Support capacity planning, performance tuning, operating system lifecycle upgrades, and business-critical services
  • Support Kubernetes clusters and Docker workloads
  • Troubleshoot pods, deployments, container networking, persistent storage, and resource constraints
  • Support more than 500 servers, including virtual and cloud environments
  • Plan and implement regular maintenance, patches, service packs, hot-fixes, and upgrades
  • Implement documentation, monitoring, disaster recovery/backups, and user support systems
  • Provide knowledge transfer, coaching, and mentoring to junior staff
  • Research help desk technology and communicate findings to Operations to improve efficiency and lower costs
  • Install and configure server software and applications in physical and virtual VMware environments
  • Participate in an on-call rotation one week every three weeks for production support after business hours

Requirements

  • Degree or Diploma in Computer Science or Engineering
  • 5+ years of related experience
  • Hands-on production experience installing, configuring, securing, patching, and troubleshooting Linux and Windows operating systems
  • Experience with Linux services, permissions, package management, Windows Active Directory, and Group Policy
  • Administration experience with VMware, OpenStack, or Proxmox
  • Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Practical experience with Bash, PowerShell, or Python
  • Experience with Ansible or Terraform
  • Knowledge of Apache, IIS, NGINX, and Varnish
  • Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, subnetting, routing, firewalls, load balancing, VPNs, TLS certificates, and web servers
  • Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, Pingdom, or similar monitoring and alerting tools
  • Experience with Git, Jenkins, Sonar, and pipeline frameworks
  • Experience with Veeam, Elastic, SonarQube, CrowdStrike, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Zscaler, or Cisco Duo
  • Ability to work regular hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
  • Ability to participate in an on-call rotation including nights, weekends, holidays, and scheduled maintenance outside business hours
  • Ability to work onsite at the Oakville office at least 3 days per week and as needed
  • Ability to work in a time-sensitive, high-pressure environment
  • Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical staff and end users
  • Research, analytical, organizational, communication, time-management, and problem-solving skills

Benefits

  • Flexible Hybrid Work Environment
  • Retirement Savings Plan
  • Paid Vacation Days Off
  • Personal Days
  • IDEAS (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Awareness, Solidarity) team
  • Company phone provided
  • On-call compensation in accordance with company policy
  • Open and transparent communication, including All Hands Meetings with the CEO
  • Frequent employee pulse surveys
  • Anonymous reporting platform
  • Opportunity to see work pushed to real users quickly
  • Learning new technologies and trying new things
  • Reduced meeting burden

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Associate's Degree

Tech skills

AnsibleApacheAWSAzureCloudDNSDockerFirewallsGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJenkinsKubernetesLinuxNGINXOpenStackPrometheusPythonTCP/IPTerraformVMware

Location requirements

HybridOakvilleCanada

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