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Lead Systems Administrator

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced system administrator who is ready to lead a team and manage projects within a dynamic and fast paced gaming environment. Each day will be filled with various tasks and the ideal candidate will have excellent communication, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.

As a Lead Systems Administrator, your role will involve leading a team of System Administrators as well as IT projects that support software engineers, designers, artists and producers across multiple North American studios.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Day-to-day management of the Sysadmin pod within the IT Operations team.
• Manage and work on IT-driven initiatives including upgrades, single sign on, server deployments, endpoint management, etc.
• Act as IT point person for physical space expansions, upgrades, cabling, and connectivity.
• Define hardware standards for IT procurement across the organization.
• Optimize and refine the backup and disaster recovery strategies, documentation and testing.
• Triage, resolve or escalate alerts for servers, backup jobs and cloud services.
• Datacentre management and maintenance tasks.
• Participate in technical meetings to discuss recent issues and progress initiatives forward.
• Create and maintain great documentation, including SOPs, network diagrams, and KBs.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 4+ years of experience in an infrastructure role, supporting technologies such as Windows Server, VMware, SANs, disaster recovery platforms, and advanced networking.
• Experience with managing IT deployments of new or expanding physical office spaces.
• Experience deploying Veeam as a disaster recovery platform.
• Experience with remote management solutions and security platforms.
• Must be comfortable with scripting common tasks, experience with Ansible preferred.
• French language is an asset.