Senior System Administrator, Virtual Machines
Bank of Canada
Date: 11 hours ago
City: Ottawa, Ontario
Contract type: Full time
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The Bank of Canada has a vision to be a leading central bank—dynamic, engaged and trusted—committed to a better Canada. No other employer in the country offers you the unique opportunity to work at the very center of Canada’s economy, in an organization with significant impact on the economic and financial well-being of all Canadians. You will be challenged, energized and motivated to excel in our environment.
Building on the principles that have always guided us – excellence, integrity and respect – we strive to be forward-looking and innovative, to welcome people with diverse perspectives and talents, and to earn trust by living up to our commitments and by clearly explaining the intent of our policies and actions.
With our defined-benefit pension plan, benefits, and high flexibility for work life balance - find out more about why we are annually ranked as one of Canada's top employers: Working Here - Bank of Canada
Find out more about the next steps in our Recruitment process .
Please note that we are using this poster to hire for a System administrator at a job grade 16 in addition to the job grade 17.
What You Will Do
As a Senior System Administrator, Virtual Machines in the Cloud and Virtualization Services team, you will be supporting the technologies that make up the Bank’s IaaS hosting platforms.
Our role is to oversee and evolve the Bank’s IaaS ecosystem, making cloud and on-premise compute resources easily consumable through standardized, automated, and secure services. We offer opportunities for close collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues, inside and outside of the team. We reward experimentation, and we drive the change of how we do our IT business.
Join us and take your career to the next level. Acquire a new generation of IT skills that are sought after and highly prized. Consider this opportunity as investing in yourself.
What You Need To Succeed
You have a strong IT infrastructure background, and a history demonstrating strong technical skills. You are a self-starter with the ability to quickly grasp the essence of complex issues. As an effective communicator, you clearly convey key points in a style appropriate to a variety of audiences.
You are self-motivated, and independent, requiring little supervision. You will actively contribute to creating positive team dynamics by engaging in productive and respectful conversations, helping team members and having a positive attitude towards the team's goals.
The Successful Candidate Has Experience
Providing expert technical operations management support for IaaS virtual infrastructure technologies.
Your combined education and work experience demonstrate that you are effective at learning and applying new skills. Our ideal candidate will have 7+ years of relevant experience for the Senior System Administrator, Virtual Machines (job grade 17) and 5+ years for the System Administrator, Virtual Machines (job grade 16).
Language requirement
The Bank’s work environment is conducive to the use of both of Canada’s official languages - English and French. Although the position language requirement is English or French essential, we do encourage everyone to improve second their language proficiency for future career growth and to contribute towards fostering a bilingual environment.
What You Need To Know
The Bank offers work arrangements that provide employees with flexibility, enable high-performing teams, and support an excellent workplace culture. Most employees can telework from home for a substantial part of each month as part of the Bank`s hybrid work model, and they are expected on site at the Bank location a minimum of eight days per month to help build connections between colleagues. You must live in Canada, and within reasonable commuting distance of the office.
What You Can Expect From Us
This is a great opportunity to join a leading organization and be part of a high-performing team. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package designed to meet your needs at every stage of your life and career. For more information on key benefits please visit A great deal to consider .
The Bank of Canada has a vision to be a leading central bank—dynamic, engaged and trusted—committed to a better Canada. No other employer in the country offers you the unique opportunity to work at the very center of Canada’s economy, in an organization with significant impact on the economic and financial well-being of all Canadians. You will be challenged, energized and motivated to excel in our environment.
Building on the principles that have always guided us – excellence, integrity and respect – we strive to be forward-looking and innovative, to welcome people with diverse perspectives and talents, and to earn trust by living up to our commitments and by clearly explaining the intent of our policies and actions.
With our defined-benefit pension plan, benefits, and high flexibility for work life balance - find out more about why we are annually ranked as one of Canada's top employers: Working Here - Bank of Canada
Find out more about the next steps in our Recruitment process .
Please note that we are using this poster to hire for a System administrator at a job grade 16 in addition to the job grade 17.
What You Will Do
As a Senior System Administrator, Virtual Machines in the Cloud and Virtualization Services team, you will be supporting the technologies that make up the Bank’s IaaS hosting platforms.
Our role is to oversee and evolve the Bank’s IaaS ecosystem, making cloud and on-premise compute resources easily consumable through standardized, automated, and secure services. We offer opportunities for close collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues, inside and outside of the team. We reward experimentation, and we drive the change of how we do our IT business.
Join us and take your career to the next level. Acquire a new generation of IT skills that are sought after and highly prized. Consider this opportunity as investing in yourself.
What You Need To Succeed
You have a strong IT infrastructure background, and a history demonstrating strong technical skills. You are a self-starter with the ability to quickly grasp the essence of complex issues. As an effective communicator, you clearly convey key points in a style appropriate to a variety of audiences.
You are self-motivated, and independent, requiring little supervision. You will actively contribute to creating positive team dynamics by engaging in productive and respectful conversations, helping team members and having a positive attitude towards the team's goals.
The Successful Candidate Has Experience
Providing expert technical operations management support for IaaS virtual infrastructure technologies.
- Designing, deploying and managing of virtual infrastructure technologies
- Leveraging public cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP)
- Configuring real-time/continuous health monitoring on supported technologies
- Resolving incidents and problems related to supported technologies and integrations within SLA specifications
- Executing configuration management changes as necessary on supported technologies
- Executing standardized request fulfilment within SLA specifications while identify opportunities to promote task automation by recommending design and implementing features, always ensuring proper testing, and maintaining documentation or release notes
- Applying and maintaining adequate cybersecurity controls on supported technologies
- Applying and maintaining adequate resiliency controls, including the creation and validation of IT Disaster Recovery plans
- Planning and performing technology upgrades/updates/patching ensuring compliance with vendor provided compatibility matrices, and to maintain required cybersecurity controls
- Planning and performing technology capacity management, and help maintain operational budgets, by producing licensing and usage forecasts
- Responding to audit requests (i.e.: ad hoc reporting)
- Performing supported technology functional testing and health checks during change, incident and other activities performed by other teams, as required
- Participating in an on-call 24x7 rotation, as required
- Working with Agile / DevOps principles and tools (e.g.: Jira, scrum, etc.) for test-driven development, continuous integration, and other approaches to accelerate the delivery of new features
- Showing a passion for collaboration / sharing / coaching with colleagues
- VMware vSphere 7.x/8.x (VSAN and NSX-T), VMware SRM, EMC RP4VM
- Microsoft Azure Stack (recently rebranded Azure Local) and/or RedHat Openshift Virtualization
- RedHat OpenShift Container Platform or other container technologies
- Networking and Network Security concepts
- Any related professional designations
- Ability to communicate effectively in both official languages
- Experience with programming and/or scripting, e.g.: YAML, Python, Powershell, Javascript or working knowledge in at least one object-oriented programming language (e.g.: Java, C, C#, C++)
Your combined education and work experience demonstrate that you are effective at learning and applying new skills. Our ideal candidate will have 7+ years of relevant experience for the Senior System Administrator, Virtual Machines (job grade 17) and 5+ years for the System Administrator, Virtual Machines (job grade 16).
Language requirement
The Bank’s work environment is conducive to the use of both of Canada’s official languages - English and French. Although the position language requirement is English or French essential, we do encourage everyone to improve second their language proficiency for future career growth and to contribute towards fostering a bilingual environment.
What You Need To Know
- Priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents
- Security level required: Be eligible to obtain Secret
- Relocation assistance may be provided, if required
- Please save a copy of the job poster. Once the closing date has passed, it will no longer be available.
The Bank offers work arrangements that provide employees with flexibility, enable high-performing teams, and support an excellent workplace culture. Most employees can telework from home for a substantial part of each month as part of the Bank`s hybrid work model, and they are expected on site at the Bank location a minimum of eight days per month to help build connections between colleagues. You must live in Canada, and within reasonable commuting distance of the office.
What You Can Expect From Us
This is a great opportunity to join a leading organization and be part of a high-performing team. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package designed to meet your needs at every stage of your life and career. For more information on key benefits please visit A great deal to consider .
- Salaries are based on qualifications and experience and typically range from $108,874 to $128,087 (job grade 17)
- The Bank offers an incentive for successfully meeting expectations at 7 to 10% of your base salary. The Bank offers additional performance pay (5%) for those who exceed expectations. Exceptional performers who far exceed expectations may be eligible for higher performance pay.
- Flexible and comprehensive benefits so you can choose the level of health, dental disability and life and/or accident insurance coverage that meets your needs
- Extra vacation days (up to five each year) that you can purchase to add to your vacation entitlement
- Indexed, defined-benefit pension
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