Job Description

Work Model: Hybrid in Ottawa – 10 days per month on-site.
Consultants are required to be on-site at least two days per week, with Wednesdays being mandatory as a team collaboration day.
Note: In addition to the 2-day weekly minimum, consultants must choose two additional on-site days per month to meet the 10-day monthly requirement. These extra days are at the consultant’s discretion.
- Consultant must have the ability to obtain: Secret clearance
- Our client will not accept a fully remote consultant

About the role
As a Systems Administrator, you’ll maintain and optimize our enterprise virtual infrastructure (VMware vSphere/VxRail) and automation tools (Ansible, Terraform), ensuring reliability, security, and scalability for large-scale production environments. Your focus will span infrastructure operations, IaC implementation, and proactive system hardening—far beyond routine support tasks.

Under the direction of the Assistant Director, Automation Tools and Compute Services:

• Provide expert Operations Management support for virtual infrastructure and IaC automation tools:

VMware vSphere 8.x (VSAN and NSX-T), VMware SRM, EMC RP4VM, VMWare vRealize Orchestration and Automation, Ansible Tower, and Azure DevOps

• Configure real-time/continuous health monitoring on supported technologies
• Resolve incidents and problems related to supported technologies and integrations within SLA specifications

• Execute configuration management changes on supported technologies, as necessary
• Execute standardized request fulfilment within SLA specifications while identifying opportunities to promote task automation by recommending design and implementing features, while ensuring proper testing, and maintaining documentation or release notes

• Apply and maintain adequate cybersecurity controls supported technologies
• Apply and maintain adequate resiliency controls, including the creation and validation of IT Disaster Recovery plans

• Perform technology upgrades/updates/patching ensuring compliance with vendor provided compatibility matrices, and to maintain required cybersecurity controls

• Perform capacity management on IT infrastructure
• Respond to audit requests (i.e.: ad-hoc reporting)
• Perform supported technology functional testing and health checks during change, incident and other activities performed by other teams, as required

• Participate in on-call rotation, as required
• Other related activities and deliverables, as required

Required Qualifications & Skills

The Consultant should have the following qualifications and skills:

• A minimum of five (5) years of demonstrated experience working with VMware vSphere 8.x (VSAN and NSX-T), VMware SRM, EMC RP4VM, VMWare vRealize/Aria Orchestration and Automation, Ansible Tower, and Azure DevOps

• Demonstrated work experience in each of the following:

          o A scripting language, such as PowerShell or Python and in creating automation scripts, deploying orchestration and automation processes and products

          o Developing and supporting IAC (Infrastructure as Code) with tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Azure, etc.

          o System administration (priority given for VxRail, VSAN, Dell PowerEdge support)

• Demonstrated ability to work individually or as part of a team
• Demonstrated experience with technical decision-making needed to support a 24/7/365, multi-tiered large-scale production environment

Additional Qualifications

The following will also be considered assets:

• ITIL certified
• TOGAF certified
• Agile certifications