Description:
Reporting to the Head, Information Security & Infrastructure, the Systems Administrator will be a member of the Infrastructure team and will play a key role in maintaining and optimizing the existing on premise and cloud environments. This position requires a thorough understanding of virtualized environments which includes servers, databases, and application servers. The ideal candidate will possess several years of experience managing enterprise level systems both on premises and cloud hosted, and has experience working closely with data, development and information security teams.
Role Responsibilities
- Ongoing management of all servers including file servers, database servers and application servers, both on prem and cloud hosted
- Help to identify issues, anticipate problems and implement solutions within the current infrastructure
- Manage and administer all operating system upgrades and patches
- Analyze, diagnosis, and resolve complex computing problems
- Recommend and implement corrective solutions to problems
- Assess the need for any system reconfigurations (minor or significant) and execute them if required
- Setup, perform, monitor, and troubleshoot system backups
- Analyze system or application usage and plan for future growth or increases in capacity
- Assist in planning, designing, documenting, and implementing of various systems
- Help to administer and optimize Mawer’s Active Directory environment
- Perform on-site and remote technical hands-on support
- Work with the Service Desk to provide level 3 technical triage and troubleshooting of reported issues
- Work with various technical teams to better understand and mitigate risks in their environments
- Troubleshoot unexpected or unplanned outages and works with other members of the Firm to see the incident through to completion
- Keep up to date on threats and vulnerabilities to proactively respond to the changing nature of information technology
- Contribute to efforts in automation, continuous deployment, build, and configuration management
- Advise on, and implement, best practices for monitoring, logging and alerting
- Own the availability, resilience and scalability of your solutions
- Document installations, procedures and requirements for systems/services
- Work with the Security team to maintain security while meeting the needs of the business
- Work closely with various internal teams to design and plan new product and features
- Provide best practices, standards, and general support for the cloud environment