System Admin - On-prem & Cloud (AWS & Azure)
$61,600–$113,900 year
On-siteToronto, Ontario, Canada
Job Summary
Design, deploy, and manage scalable infrastructure across AWS and Microsoft Azure while configuring, patching, and hardening Linux and Windows Server environments. Build and manage Infrastructure as Code using CDK and CDKTF, implement automated workflow tools, and coordinate the installation of enterprise infrastructure devices. Design and execute backup solutions, disaster recovery strategies, and failover mechanisms to ensure system resilience across hybrid and multi-cloud setups. Perform vulnerability assessments, system hardening, and remediation activities, while diagnosing complex networking and OS-level issues. Act as the primary technical liaison between Infrastructure teams, vendors, and the business to design infrastructure solutions and manage change releases with standardized procedures.
Required Qualifications
- Proven hands-on experience deploying and managing resources in both AWS and Microsoft Azure
- Strong administration expertise in Linux (CLI-based) and Windows Server environments
- Experience with Ansible, CDK, CDK TF, CloudFormation
- Experience in system configuration management, patching, compliance enforcement, and remediation of system vulnerabilities
- Proficiency in Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, or Python for automation and operational efficiency
- Experience with cloud-native container services (e.g., AKS, EKS)
- Familiarity with GitHub, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps
- Experience in troubleshooting application issues from middleware and OS perspective
- Knowledge of network routing, switching, and security
- Experience with configuration management
- Experience with systems administration
- Experience with scripting languages
- Experience with IT infrastructure library
- Experience with root cause analysis
- Experience with troubleshooting
- Knowledge of cloud computing
- Knowledge of Cybersecurity and privacy concepts, principles and solutions
- Experience with IT automation
- Experience with building and managing relationships
- Experience with virtualization and virtual machines
- Experience with Operating Systems and Platforms
- Experience with Infrastructure as code (IaC)
- Experience with Quality assurance and control
- Experience with Database administration
- Experience with Containerization
- Experience with Continuous improvement management
- Experience with Communicating with impact
- Experience with Customer Centricity
- Experience with Intermediate level of proficiency in Hardware Infrastructure
- Experience with Version control
- Verbal & written communication skills
- Collaboration & team skills
- Analytical and problem solving skills
- Influence skills
- Data driven decision making
- Complex Problem Solving
- Technical proficiency gained through education and/or business experience
Desired Qualifications
- Monitoring tools like DynaTrace, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor
- Provisioning Immutable cloud resources
- Backup tools such as Rubrik, AVAMAR, TSM or native cloud backup services AWS or Azure
- Certifications
- AWS to Azure cloud migration
- On-Prem to Cloud migration
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