Senior Server Administrator

Company description

Field Influenced IT – With a focus on redundancy, and resiliency, Provision Infotech is uniquely qualified to provide IT Services to companies whose operations include remote industrial facilities. With an enormous amount of experience in corporate IT, Provision Infotech is also experienced in the installation, monitoring, and maintenance of remote energy-sector facilities and is focused on turning “emergencies into maintenance items”. We have technicians that are field-ticketed and are focused on keeping production-critical systems running.

Job description

Provision Infotech is looking for a Server Administrator/Engineer to join our team

Provision Infotech is a growing provider of Information Technology and Operational Technology services in Western Canada.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the planning, design, implementation, support, configuration, and troubleshooting secure computer environments for multiple clients in various, and sometimes unique, settings.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

· Lead data center transformations and business applications projects

· Experience in datacenter design, build, administration and helps us build hybrid cloud based on current VMware infrastructure and Azure

· Perform planning, coordination and execution of software and hardware installation, configuration, maintenance, and upgrades

· Provide support for current/future servers and systems infrastructure by performing backups, upgrades, troubleshooting, deployment, and administration.

· Perform system administration tasks, software and hardware support, systems configuration, backups, system monitoring, change management, performance tuning, capacity planning and troubleshooting.

· Maintain virtualization solutions (VMware and Hyper-V) and associated SAN (EMC, DELL, Nimble) storage systems

· Manage and optimize the overall infrastructure

· Analyze and diagnose problems and implement fixes that resolve them

· Developing/maintaining an IT/Systems policy for the organization and clients.

· Build and maintain business continuity infrastructure and data recovery capabilities, including system backup validation and administration.

· Design of multi-server virtualization environment including IP address schemes, DNS, DHCP

· Work with vendors for product information, pricing, and support.

· Responsible for defining and documenting system operational procedures develop and maintain technical documentation.

· Design and test new services before implementation for clients.

· Ability to be On Call to respond to outages in the network.

Requirements

· Expert in Windows (Server 2008 through 2019), and Azure

· Working knowledge of Active Directory, DNS

· Microsoft Certification (MCSE) preferred

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills

· Self-starter and ability to take ownership of work.

· Strong organizational skills and ability to multi-task in a small business environment.

· Excellent teamwork

· Willingness to learn new technologies

Willing to work out of our field office location or associated client sites up to one month as needed.

All travel related costs will be covered by the company

Qualifications

· 5 -10 years’ experience working in systems admin/engineer role

· Preference will be given to people worked in a managed service provider environment

· Strong interpersonal and organizational skills.

· Strong initiative and problem-solving skills

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: $70,000.00-$85,000.00 per year