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Cloud Administrator

Job Description

Summary:

The Cloud Administrator is responsible for the health and operations of our virtualization & Cloud platforms, with a main focus on operational activities, proactive capacity management and event monitoring.

He will also contribute to the execution of various projects and will act as a second level support for the platforms (including 7/24 pager support).

Responsibilities:

The main and routine tasks of this position are to:

• Care for the Ubisoft Private Cloud platforms with an emphasis on security, using documented, automated installation and support procedures;
• Conduct virtual infrastructure capacity forecast and health assessments;
• Improve resource allocation on the virtual platform by proposing various usage optimizations;
• Monitor system events to ensure health, maximum system availability and service quality;
• Perform system & application patching and upgrade of equipment firmware;
• Maintain documentation regarding configurations, operations and troubleshooting procedures related to the Cloud platforms;
• Participate in the definition of standards, guidelines, best practices and metrics as directed;
• Assist in evaluating new requirements, technical design and standards;
• Answer user’s query and service requests;
• Carry out all other related tasks.

Qualifications

Training:

A baccalaureate Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics or a related field.

Relevant experience:

3+ years of experience in management of a virtualization and/or 3+ years’ experience in Microsoft system administration/DevOps.

Skills:

• Oral and Written Comprehension of English
• Skill in developing techniques and methodologies to resolve unprecedented problems or situations
• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of management
• Ability to make complex information accessible
• Must be a self-starter that requires only limited supervision/guidance.
• Candidate must present with honesty, integrity and maintains confidentiality at all times.
• Be a team player
• Have good interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to work effectively in a fast paced changing environment
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize

Knowledge:

• Expertise of virtualization, storage and networking technology
• Expertise in Windows Server / Active Directory
• In-depth knowledge of Linux system administration
• In-depth understanding of Public Cloud providers like Amazon AWS, Azure
• In-depth understanding of Configuration Management systems like Chef & Puppet & Ansible is an asset
• Knowledge about upcoming technologies like containers or distributed storage systems an asset