Senior Systems Administrator

Treasury Board Secretariat, Enterprise Applications Branch is seeking, two experienced Senior Systems Administrators with a proven track record in DevOps and cloud computing to join a high performance team.

As a member of our dynamic and fast-paced team, you will support various Enterprise and Corporate systems working with SaaS integration and configuration capability. You will have the opportunity to work with leading technologies on an interesting and diverse range of projects related to the modernization of Ontario's business applications, such as Digital Recruitment Modernization and document collaboration development processes.


LEADING TECHNOLOGY
Work with world-class technologies: Docker, Ansible, Elasticsearch, Microsoft Azure, Cosmos DB, Vue JS, Tech stacks: HTML5, CSS3, Foundation/SaSS, AngularJS, Node.js, PHP, Drupal, and AWS Cloud.

WHY CHOOSE THE ONTARIO GOVERNMENT?

• Canada's Top 100 Employers
• Work that makes an impact on society
• Learning and development opportunities
• Open and inclusive work environment
• Flexible work arrangements
• Health and dental benefits
• Pension plan
• Generous vacation

Note: These positions are located at 33 King Street West, Oshawa and 222 Jarvis Street, Toronto; however, alternate work arrangements, including flexible hours, hybrid remote work, and a compressed work week, may be available.

What can I expect to do in this role?

As an experienced Senior Systems Administrator with DevOps expertise, you will:
• design, build, automate, deploy to, and support cloud environments, so our technical team can continue to build and deploy enterprise solutions to support public servants providing services for Ontarians in the most effective way possible.
• lead system configuration workshops and gap analysis to finalize system functional requirements, and configure and deploy new instance in a cloud environment.

Your Impact:
• Your experience and passion for designing, building and maintaining a stable, secure and scalable cloud environment will make it possible for the development and quality assurance team to deliver high-quality digital products.
• Your expertise in continuous delivery will help us further automate our testing and deployment pipelines to deliver solutions incrementally and quickly.
• Your ability to monitor and assess the health and security of applications in a cloud environment will ensure our solutions are available anytime, anywhere.
• You will create, test and implement operational safeguards that maintain the integrity of data and protect against unauthorized access.
• As our applications continue to grow within the Ontario Public Service (OPS) and integrate with other platforms, we will rely on your DevOps expertise to guide and mentor other team members.
• Working with a high-performance team, you will be constantly learning new technologies and techniques through research and experimentation, and from your exceptional colleagues.

How do I qualify?

Technical Knowledge and Experience

• You have proven experience in providing production support for one or many of the leading cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• You are familiar with open source tools, front-end markup and scripting languages, and web analytics software
• You have fluency in programming languages like Python, Bash, PHP, Java, JavaScript, Node and others
• You have experience in build tools like Git, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, and others for continuous integration
• You are familiar with container-based virtualization technology like Docker
• You have integration experience using and building APIs
• You have experience applying industry web, architectural and security standards and best practices to your work that can be adopted by others
• You have worked with relational and non-relational databases like MySQL, CosmosDB, PostgreSQL, Redis and others
• You have experience in securing environments using offensive and defensive approaches

Leadership and Communication Skills

• You are comfortable leading discussions and selling your ideas to technical and non-technical colleagues as well as senior management
• You are a strong communicator who collaborates on your work within a multidisciplinary team.
• You have strong leadership skills to support and guide team members

OPS Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Anti-Racism

We are committed to build a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and to promote a diverse, anti-racist, inclusive, accessible, merit-based, respectful, and equitable workplace.

We invite all interested individuals to apply and encourage applications from people with disabilities, Indigenous, Black, and racialized individuals, as well as people from a diversity of ethnic and cultural origins, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions.

Visit the  OPS Anti-Racism Policy and the  OPS Diversity and Inclusion Blueprint pages to learn more about the OPS commitment to advance racial equity, accessibility, diversity, and inclusion in the public service.

We offer employment accommodation across the recruitment process and all aspects of employment consistent with the requirements of Ontario's Human Rights Code. Refer to the application instructions below if you require a disability-related accommodation.

Please be advised that the results of this competition may be used to form an eligibility list of qualified candidates to potentially fill future vacancies represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU). In accordance with the Collective Agreement, eligibility lists are shared with OPSEU representatives. By applying to this competition, you are providing consent that your name may be shared with OPSEU representatives.

All external applicants (including former employees of the Ontario Public Service) applying to a competition in a ministry or Commission public body must disclose (either in the cover letter or resume) previous employment with the Ontario Public Service. Disclosure must include positions held, dates of employment and any active restrictions as applicable from being rehired by the Ontario Public Service. Active restrictions can include time and/or ministry-specific restrictions currently in force, and may preclude a former employee from being offered a position with the Ontario Public Service for a specific time period (e.g. one year), or from being offered a position with a specific ministry (either for a pre-determined time period or indefinitely). The circumstances around an employee's exit will be considered prior to an offer of employment.

Remember: The deadline to apply is Thursday, July 14, 2022 11:59 pm EDT. Late applications will not be accepted.

We thank you for your interest. Only those selected for further screening or an interview will be contacted.