Bardel is currently looking for a Systems Administrator to work collaboratively with our Emmy award winning studio team. Working closely with all Technology teams, this role is responsible for the successful development and maintenance of the company's infrastructure, supporting Production in making technical decisions and general technical support throughout the organization.
What you will be doing:
- Maintain Bardel's Systems Administrations operation standards of installation, configuration, and administration of the tech infrastructure
- Collaboration across multiple teams to design and deploy highly redundant and secure systems.
- Administration and maintenance of physical, virtual and Cloud infrastructure
- Monitoring and optimizing system performance and ensure production facing services are performing to the required standard
- Focus on continuous improvement and automation of repetitive tasks/procedures
Work with Desktop support team on ticket escalations and technical knowledge sharing - Take a lead role in implementing new systems and keep project on time and on budget
- Provide input into potential improvements in efficiency, reliability and performance of the animation pipeline
What you bring with you:
- Minimum 3+ years experience in a similar role
- Experience with automated deployment (Foreman, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform etc.)
- Configuration management experience, ideally with Puppet/Ansible
- Experience administering Microsoft Server (Active Directory, DNS, DHCP)
- Orchestration of containerized environments, i.e. Kubernetes, Docker
- Scripting knowledge, preferably bash / PowerShell
- Windows/Linux software deployment and OS imaging (Foreman, Chocolatey, Artifactory, etc)
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to deliver project deliverables on time and in scope
Bonus Experience:
- Experience in the media and entertainment industry (VFX, television, animation or gaming)
- Experience with Networking and Security, i.e. Firewall Management, routing and switching
- Experience with Logging and Metrics Collection/Analysis
- Experience Managing and maintaining Automation tools, i.e. Jenkins, Github actions, etc.
- Experience working with Cloud Infrastructure, AWS/Azure, etc
- Knowledge of storage technologies (Qumulo, NetApp, Isilon, Cohesity and S3)
Salary Range: CAD $80,000 - $95,000 / year. The Salary Range is the span between the minimum and maximum base salary for a position. The midpoint of the range is approximately halfway between the minimum and the maximum and represents an employee that possesses full job knowledge, qualifications and experience for the position. In the normal course, employees will be hired, transferred or promoted between the minimum and midpoint of the salary range for a job.
Location: We are currently considering only candidates based in BC or Quebec who are legally able to work in Canada.