Senior, Systems Engineer - Infrastructure & Cloud Operations

Questrade Financial Group•Toronto, ON

1d•CA$115,000 - CA$135,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Questrade Financial Group (QFG) is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join their Infrastructure & Cloud Operations team. This role involves the effective design, provisioning, configuration, and operation of systems hardware, software, and related infrastructure in heterogeneous environments (Linux and Windows). The engineer will ensure systems align with corporate policies and best practices, focusing on documentation and high availability. Responsibilities include leading technical research and development for on-premise and cloud infrastructure, knowledge transfer to other team members, and providing high-level technical input to senior leadership. The role requires a strong focus on innovation, collaboration, and acting as a trusted advisor across multiple teams.

Requirements

5+ years experience in a large-scale (2000+ VMs) environment with exposure to Linux, Windows and VMWare ESXi 7+.
Hands-on (production) experience in any Cloud provider (Google required).
Excellent knowledge of Active Directory, Azure AD, DNS, DHCP, PKI Infrastructure and Group Policy management.
Solid networking knowledge (OSI Layers, well-known protocols)
Strong documentation and presentation skills.
Eager to learn and train and develop others
Strong attention to detail, comprehensive problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
Creating new procedures and policies do help further enterprise maturity.
Ability to work independently or under minimum supervision
Disaster Recovery/High Availability experience is required.
Experience presenting and influencing technology strategy with executives through developers
GCP experience is required.

Nice To Haves

Experience in regulated environments is an asset (SOC, ISO27001, NIT, PCI) including escalations, change and incident management.
AWS and Azure Experience is an asset.
Expertise with managing GCP using IaaC technologies like Terraform.

Responsibilities

Define best practices and provide expert guidance for Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and Windows (2016+) server systems using tools like Satellite and SCCM, Ansible, Saltstack, terraform and other automation tools
Provide technical support to complex infrastructure including our Cloud Footprint in GCP and AWS.
Define best practices and provide expert guidance Active Directory, IIS, DNS, DHCP, GPO,PKI infrastructure, replication, Clustering and other Windows Technologies
Lead project and provide guidance for process documentation
Provide technical guidance to other teams into architecture and implementation for tech-agnostic in order to achieve the best solution in a timely manner.
Participate in a rotating on-call schedule which includes performing server maintenance/updates and providing technical support after hours.