SR SysAdmin (Canadian Night Shift)

About Pearster

We are a USA-based global IT company offering Team Extension, Managed Services and Performance Squads to clients in the USA, Canada, and Europe. With a global team, we connect talent with top opportunities while creating a personalized and enriching experience for our staff.

Description

As a Systems Administrator, you will play a vital role in designing, building, planning, automating, administering, and maintaining Systems, Servers, Storage, Cloud, and Infrastructure Applications. Your responsibilities will contribute to ensuring the organization's infrastructure is robust, scalable, reliable, and efficient, both on-premise and in the cloud. This role provides a unique opportunity to be involved in a data center move project and hardware/software refresh, enhancing your skills and expertise in a dynamic environment.

What you´ll do

• Participate in the migration of VM workloads from old storage/computer to new.
• Engage in planning sessions leading up to migrations, collaborating with app owners and internal support teams.
• Design, install, maintain, upgrade, and administer Microsoft Windows Servers  and RedHat Linux in a virtualized environment.
• Contribute to daily operations, including business-as-usual service, Change
• Requests, Incident Investigation/Remediation, troubleshooting, and monitoring of corporate services.
• Maintain information security, premises integrity, and access procedures in line with corporate security policy.
• Provide technical infrastructure support and coordination for escalated incidents and problems.
• Ensure compliance with corporate policies, including the HR Code of Conduct, Technology Policy, and Privacy Policy.

Requirements 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT or a related field of study and/or 3+ years of equivalent IT working experience.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in designing/building/automating/administration of Windows Servers or RedHat Servers in physical and virtual environments, with practical experience in security hardening.
• Virtualization experience in an enterprise environment (ESXi, AKV, vCenter, RDMs, Datastore clusters, hardened configuration). 
• NAS storage experience (SMB/CIFS, DFS, NFS).
• Strong team player with analytical skills, enabling effective problem-solving and collaboration

Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement as a contractor
• Competitive salary in USD
• 10 paid time off (PTO) days per year
• 100% company-covered international certifications
• Access to coworking spaces
• English classes
• Engaging team-building activities
• Personalized gifts
• Welcome kit
• Referral program