Senior, Systems Engineer - Infrastructure & Cloud Operations
About The Position
Questrade Financial Group (QFG) is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join their Infrastructure & Cloud Operations team. This role involves the design, provisioning, configuration, and operation of systems hardware, software, and related infrastructure in both Linux and Windows environments. The engineer will ensure systems align with corporate policies and best practices, focusing on documentation and high availability. A key part of the role includes leading technical research and development for on-premise and cloud infrastructure, as well as knowledge transfer to other team members. The Senior Systems Engineer will provide high-level technical input and oversight to senior leadership for enterprise-wide progress, acting as a trusted advisor to 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, 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.
Benefits
- Health & wellbeing resources and programs.
- Paid vacation, personal, and sick days for work-life balance.
- Competitive compensation and benefits packages.
- Career growth and development opportunities.
- Community contribution opportunities to support various causes.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
