Virtual Infrastructure Specialist

CGI

20h•Hybrid

About The Position

Join our Global Technology Operations (GTO) Team! This role can be in Toronto, Montreal or Saguenay ( Hybrid) We are looking for Virtualization System Administrator. CGI is a forward-thinking organization committed to delivering robust IT infrastructure solutions. We are seeking a motivated System Administrator with expertise in Virtualization domain to join our infrastructure team. In this role, you will learn and support our transition toward modern Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and automated workflows while getting hands-on experience with enterprise hardware and virtualization platforms. If you understand the concepts of IaC, love writing scripts to automate repetitive tasks, and are eager to grow your skills in Terraform, Ansible, and virtualized systems (VMware, UCS, Oracle KVM, PureStorage), this is an ideal role to diversify your knowledge and grow your career. Your future duties and responsibilities: As a virtual infrastructure specialist on our team, you will be working on several big initiatives within the business. This role will require communication and interaction with multiple internal and external clients. The virtual infrastructure specialist will also troubleshoot issues and develop new enhancements to achieve targeted results. If you have experience in infrastructure management and infrastructure development through automation we want to hear from you.

Requirements

Infrastructure knowledge in software defined network, storage and datacenter (Cisco UCS manager & Cisco Intersight is an asset)
Knowledge in Virtualization (ESX), VMware, OVM/OLVM, Windows/Linux
Automation experience
Ability to write in Bash/Powershell
5 years of server administration experience in a large-scale production environment
Strong understanding of agile development workflow and process.
Strong understanding of quality assurance methodologies, workflow, and process
Experience with deployment of configuration management and automation solutions
Experience in disaster recovery
Expertise in building scalable, high performance development and production infrastructure systems
Ability to rapidly assess, analyze, and resolve complicated issues with little initial information or direction and with varying degrees of ambiguity

Nice To Haves

Certification in virtual infrastructure technology an asset (vmware, OVM/OLVM)
Nutanix experience an asset
Cirrus tool experience an asset
French

Responsibilities

Administration of the IT virtual infrastructure
Assist and take on duties in analyzing, designing and architecting virtual infrastructure
Experience with designing, building, and maintaining a high-availability virtual environments
Strong understanding of ESXi, vCenter, OVM/OLVM, and similar hypervisors
Strong understanding of shared storage technologies including SAN, NAS, fiber channel, iSCSI, and NFS.
Strong understanding of network technologies as it relates to the hypervisor
Strong understanding of ESXi host security
Ability to perform root cause analysis and act on results
Ability to perform performance analysis to determine bottlenecks
Ability to automate day-to-day tasks/activities using scripting technologies (PowerCLI, Powershell, Python)
Ability to perform migration/upgrade of large-scale virtual environments (vSphere, OVM/OLVM)
Knowledge in deploying and configuring Cisco UCS hardware (rackmount, blade & Hyperconverged technologies)
Knowledge in converged and hyper-converged platforms (Nutanix experience an asset)
Knowledge in Pure storage Flash Array and Flashblade systems is preferred
Experience installing, configuring and managing VMWare virtual server environments and Storage Area Networking devices.
Experience in building resilient virtual environments using various Disaster Recovery tools & techniques (Cirrus tool experience an asset)
Ability to work independently, as well as collaborate in a team environment
Effective planning and organizational skills; ability to complete assignments and meet deadlines
Ability to create and write clear, complete documentation including policies/procedures and diagrams
Demonstrated listening, verbal and written communication skills; accurately prepare all types of business correspondence, design and produce reports; ability to analyze and interpret job related business periodicals and technical manuals and assist in the preparation of training manuals.
Ability to maintain highly confidential information; ability to multi-task and effectively manage stress and pressure through changing priorities calmly in all situations.
Excellent customer service orientation and interpersonal skills for effective interaction with managers, employees, vendors, consultants and others; ability to exercise good judgment, sound reasoning skills and discretion in making independent decisions commensurate with responsibilities
Sound understanding of datacenter operational processes coupled with proven business and analytical skills
Ability to manage multiple projects, while ensuring that commitments and timetables are met
Professional and diplomatic communication, verbal and written
Ability to partner with internal stakeholders to design operational solutions
Goal oriented, forward thinker that can provide solutions for complex technical problems