Senior Systems Specialist ( Windows)

About The Job

If you value collaboration, diversity, and flexibility, the Senior Systems Specialist role at IntouchCX could be perfect for you!

Reporting to the Manager of System Engineering, the Senior Systems Specialist will be our go-to person for the department. You will respond to a variety of issues, preventing your day from ever being boring or routine, and work with people from across the company on a daily basis.

As Senior Systems Specialist (Windows), You Will

Manage and maintain server environments based on Microsoft technologies

Troubleshoot hardware and software errors by running diagnostics, documenting problems and resolutions, prioritizing problems, and assessing impact of issues working closely with business units and clients

Provide documentation and technical specifications to IT staff and other departments for planning and implementing new deployments or upgrades of IT infrastructure

Perform or administer regular backup operations, system patches, and reports; implement appropriate processes for data protection, disaster recovery planning activities and documentation, and failover procedures

Review for capacity, storage planning, and database performance

Optimize and improve existing server infrastructure deployments, and take ownership of planning new expansions / project implementations against current utilization and expected growth

Design and implement solutions as requested by business and stakeholders, including research into various options available

Participate in information security monitoring, incident management, and investigations as required under direction of the Information Security department

Participate in after hours on-call support rotation

Travel when required

Design and architect solutions to meet real business and user needs

Focus on planning, designing, and implementing future solutions

Define and document how to operationalize things that are designed and deployed in a useful and repeatable SOP that makes everyones lives easier (especially your own)

As Senior Systems Specialist (Windows), You Have

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a closely related field, or equivalent technical experience

5+ years of experience in managing complex and large IT environments

Extensive experience of managing Microsoft technologies (Active Directory, IIS and MS SQL)

Experienced in MS SQL database management, MS MSQL clusters, database performance optimizations and MS SQL version upgrades.

Working knowledge of virtualization (VMWare),cloud computing (AWS, GCP)

Knowledge of implementing effective IT operations best practices, including expert knowledge of security, storage, data protection, and disaster recovery protocols

Experience with scripting and automation tools would be a plus

Knowledge of Identify providers such as Okta or Duo

Knowledge of Google Workspace (formerly GSuite) would be an asset

Knowledge of Linux administration would be an asset

A sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on companys success

Excellent time-management and critical thinking skills

Strong communication and technical presentation skills, both written and oral

Detailed oriented work ethic and are organized with technical design & documentation skills

Ability to learn new technologies on the fly in a dynamic environment

Ability to prioritize in a fast-paced and rapidly evolving environment, and respond to emergency situations effectively

Strong personal desire to know how things work, and to help them work simply and consistently

Pride in knowing (or learning) what elements in system design make for healthy and effective systems that thrive in their purpose and their implementation

Be a technology specialist and a team player with the ability to multitask