Toronto, downtown. Full-time, permanent, existing vacancy. Hybrid, four days on site.

$80,000 to $90,000 per year. Three weeks of vacation.

Hands-on generalist role at a regulated financial services company with several offices. The IT team is two systems administrators and an IT Director. You work in one workplace, and you see your own projects through.

This search is confidential and run by the employer directly, not an agency. You receive the company name before the in-person meeting.

What you will do

- Run Windows servers, Active Directory, virtual machines and backups, and tests for business contingency
- Manage firewalls, VPN and office networks across several offices
- Keep endpoints patched and secure with EDR, RMM, encryption and MFA; review security logs and act on alerts
- Look after the Linux servers behind our monitoring, security and backup tools
- Support users directly when needed: laptops, accounts, access, same-day fixes
- Document your work: ticket notes, procedures, change records, audit evidence
- Automate repeat work with scripts; take part in upgrades, migrations, and ERP and client platform updates

What success looks like after three months

- Your support week runs without escalations for routine issues
- Patching and endpoint security are yours
- The systems you touch have current written procedures

What you must bring

- 3 or more years as the administrator responsible for Windows Server and Active Directory: DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, permissions
- Solid networking:



IP addressing, routing, VLANs, VPN, and firewall changes you made yourself
- A methodical way of troubleshooting and clear written English: your ticket notes let a colleague continue without asking you

Assets: Linux command line, PowerShell or other scripting, virtualization and backup tools, EDR or RMM, Google Workspace.

How we hire

Two short written questions, a technical interview with a troubleshooting scenarious, then a final meeting in person. No take-home tests. We ask what you did yourself, step by step. Interviewed candidates hear back within 45 days.

You must be legally entitled to work in Canada and able to work on site four days a week.

AI assists in screening; people make all hiring decisions. Accommodations available on request at every stage.

Pay: $80,000.00-$90,000.00 per year

Benefits:

- Casual dress

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Toronto, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

- Describe in 50-100 words a how-to article or procedure you wrote that colleagues used. What did it cover, and how did you make it easy to follow?
- Describe in 100-200 words one real fault or outage you fixed yourself in the past two years. What broke, how did you notice, what did you check and in what order, what fixed it, and how did you confirm it?

Experience:

- Windows Server and Active Directory Administration: 3 years (required)

Work Location: In person

📌 Systems Administrator (Windows, Linux, Network) (Toronto)
🏢 Important Business
📍 Toronto