Job title: System Administrator - Virtual Infrastructure , 2025-022

Location: Ottawa

Contract: Yes

Type of work: Hybrid (required 10 days on-site per month at the Bank of Canada Head Office in Ottawa)

Start Date: 16/06/2025

Term: December 31, 2025

Extension : 28 months

Clearance: Secret

Responsibilities:

Provide expert Operations Management support for virtual infrastructure and IaC automation tools: VMware vSphere 8.x (VSAN and NSX-T), VMware SRM, EMC RP4VM, VMWare vRealize Orchestration and Automation, Ansible Tower, and Azure DevOps

• Configure real-time/continuous health monitoring on supported technologies

• Resolve incidents and problems related to supported technologies and integrations within SLA specifications

• Execute configuration management changes on supported technologies, as necessary

• Execute standardized request fulfilment within SLA specifications while identifying opportunities to promote task automation by recommending design and implementing features, while ensuring proper testing, and maintaining documentation or release notes

• Apply and maintain adequate cybersecurity controls supported technologies

• Apply and maintain adequate resiliency controls, including the creation and validation of IT Disaster Recovery plans

• Perform technology upgrades/updates/patching ensuring compliance with vendor provided compatibility matrices, and to maintain required cybersecurity controls

• Perform capacity management on IT infrastructure

• Respond to audit requests (i.e.: ad-hoc reporting)

• Perform supported technology functional testing and health checks during change, incident and other activities performed by other teams, as required

• Participate in on-call rotation, as required

• Other related activities and deliverables, as required

Required Qualification:

• A minimum of five (5) years of demonstrated experience working with VMware vSphere 8.x (VSAN and NSX-T), VMware SRM, EMC RP4VM, VMWare vRealize/Aria Orchestration and Automation, Ansible Tower, and Azure DevOps
• Demonstrated work experience in each of the following: A scripting language, such as PowerShell or Python and in creating automation scripts, deploying orchestration and automation processes and products
• Developing and supporting IAC (Infrastructure as Code) with tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Azure, etc.
• System administration (priority given for VxRail, VSAN, Dell PowerEdge support)
• Demonstrated ability to work individually or as part of a team
• Demonstrated experience with technical decision-making needed to support a 24/7/365, multi-tiered large-scale production environment

Additonal qualification:

• ITIL certified
• TOGAF certified
• Agile certifications

Note: Must have Secret Clearance