Job title: Systems Administrator

Contract duration: 12 months

Location: Markham, ON (onsite)

: The System Administrator (SA) is responsible for effective troubleshooting, provisioning, installing/configuring, operating, and maintaining system hardware and software and related infrastructure in a Windows Server workplace.

The successful candidate must be comfortable in a high velocity, high net throughput environment.

This individual will assist project teams with technical issues.

Participation on projects is focused on smoothing the transition of projects from development staff to production staff by performing operations activities within the project life-cycle.

Responsibilities

- Install new/rebuild existing MS based servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.
- Provide Tier III/other support per request from various constituencies.
- Investigate and troubleshoot issues.
- Repair and recover from hardware or software failures.
- Coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies.
- Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities.
- Configure/add new services as necessary.
- Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures.
- Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks.
- Identify approaches that leverage our resources and provide economies of scale.
- Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.
- Perform daily backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media, recovery tapes or disks are created, and media is recycled and sent off site as necessary.
- Perform regular file archival and purge as necessary.
- Create,



change, and delete user accounts per request.
- Upgrade and configure system software that supports GIS infrastructure applications or Asset Management applications per project or operational needs. Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.
- Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required.
- Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required.

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION:
- Bachelors degree, with a technical major.
- 0-2 years system administration experience with MS Windows Server 2008, and Server 2012.
- Must be capable of troubleshooting complex OS and connectivity issues.
- Requires experience troubleshooting peer to peer, WAN, and networking configurations.
- Requires experience troubleshooting Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, and DB connectivity issues.
- Must be adept at MS Message Queuing (MSMQ) and Message Broker.
- Some experience with virtualization is a plus, but not required.

Dexian is a leading provider of staffing, IT, and workforce solutions with over 12,000 employees and 70 locations worldwide. As one of the largest IT staffing companies and the 2nd largest minority-owned staffing company in the U.S., Dexian was formed in 2023 through the merger of DISYS and Signature Consultants. Combining the best elements of its core companies, Dexian's platform connects talent, technology, and organizations to produce game-changing results that help everyone achieve their ambitions and goals. Dexian's brands include Dexian DISYS, Dexian Signature Consultants, Dexian Government Solutions, Dexian Talent Development and Dexian IT Solutions. Visit https://dexian.com/ to learn more.

Dexian is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.

Dexian will on request provide accommodation for disabilities to support your participation in all aspects of Recruitment, Assessment and selection process

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