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Job Description:SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR Reports to : VP & GM Canada and Chief Information Officer Location : Orangeville, Ontario Travel : <20% SUMMARY: The System Administrator (SA) is responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrastructure. This individual participates in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure. This individual ensures that system hardware, operating systems, software systems, and related procedures adhere to organizational values, enabling staff, volunteers, and partners. This individual will assist project teams with technical issues in the Initiation and planning phases of our standard project management methodology. These activities include the definition of needs, benefits, and technical strategy; research & development within the project life-cycle; technical analysis and design; and support of operations staff in executing, testing and rolling-out the solutions. This individual is accountable for the following systems but not limited to: SYSPRO ERP, MS Windows server & desktop operating systems, Windows applications, Citrix applications, Fortinet VPN, Barracuda systems, VMWare systems, Virus solutions, MS SQL, Office 365, MS Exchange, Mobile device operating systems (IOS, Android). Responsibilities on these systems include SA engineering and provisioning, operations and support, maintenance and research and development to ensure continual innovation. Support will be provided from time to time on EDI and Web maintenance as needed. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS Primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to: SA Engineering and Provisioning Engineering of SA-related solutions for various project and operational needs. Install new / rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements. Install and configure systems such as infrastructure applications or asset management applications. Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures. Contribute to and maintain system standards. Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks. Identify approaches that leverage our resources and provide economies of scale. Operations and Support Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups. Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions. Perform daily backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media, recovery tapes or disks are created, and media is recycled and sent off site as necessary. Perform regular file archival and purge as necessary. Create, change, and delete user accounts per request. Provide support per request from various constituencies. Investigate and troubleshoot issues. Repair and recover from hardware or software failures. Coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies. Maintenance Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities. Configure / add new services as necessary. Upgrade and configure system software that supports GIS infrastructure applications or Asset Management applications per project or operational needs. Maintain operational, configuration, or other procedures. Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning. Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required. Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required. Maintain data center environmental and monitoring equipment. KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS: Bachelor (4-year) degree, with a technical major, such as engineering or computer science or equivalent field experience. Master's degree preferred. Preferably Systems Administration/System Engineer certification in Microsoft and/or VMWare Six to eight years system administration experience. COMPLEXITY/PROBLEM SOLVING: Position deals with a variety of problems and sometime has to decide which answer is best. The question/issues are typically clear and requires determination of which answer (from a few choices) is the best. COMMUNICATIONS/INTERPERSONAL CONTACTS: Interpret and/or discuss information with others, which involves terminology or concepts not familiar to many people; regularly provide advice and recommend actions involving rather complex issues. Provides occasional guidance, some of which is technical. Must possess professional interpersonal communication skills, dress, & demeanor in order to interact with upper level corporate management & executives. PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: Sitting for long periods of time Standing, walking, bending, reaching, pullin Job ID: 7716515
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2023-06-25