Virtual Infrastructure Specialist

Category: Infrastructure/Cloud

Main location: Canada, Ontario, Toronto

Alternate Location(s): Canada, Quebec, Montreal
Canada, Quebec, Saguenay

Position ID:J0926-0041

Employment Type: Full Time

Position Description:

Join our Global Technology Operations (GTO) Team!

We have a position in Saguenay, Montreal or Toronto.

We are looking for Virtualization System Administrator.

If you understand the concepts of IaC, love writing scripts to automate repetitive tasks, and are eager to grow your skills in Terraform, Ansible, and virtualized systems (VMware, UCS, Oracle KVM, PureStorage), this is an ideal role to diversify your knowledge and grow your career.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

As a DevOps Engineer on our team, you will drive key technical initiatives across the business, bridging the gap between software development and infrastructure operations. This role demands hands-on execution, strong technical leadership, and collaborative communication with both internal engineering teams and external partners.

You will design resilient software components, automate CI/CD pipelines, optimize operational workflows, and research next-generation cloud technologies. If you thrive on writing clean code, building automated release pipelines, and maintaining high-availability software platforms, we want to hear from you.

Your responsibilities will include:
• Design, code, and unit-test modules and platform components following modern software engineering principles.
• Conduct and participate in peer design, code, and test reviews to guarantee functional efficiency, security compliance, and engineering best practices.
• Perform root-cause analysis on application defects and execute performance tuning to eliminate bottlenecks.
• Own end-to-ed activities across continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD), build engineering, release automation, and artifact management.
• Stadardize deployment artifacts and container repositories across multiple environments (Dev, Staging, Production)
• Implement scalable, cost-effective solutions for new initiatives while maintaining operational support for existing platforms.
• Build resilient systems using modern Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and disaster recovery patterns to achieve high availability.
• Design operational solutions in direct partnership with internal engineering, QA, and security stakeholders.
• Collaborate within a cross-functional team to balance competing priorities, adapt to shifting demands, and cross-train continuously.
• Manage time-sensitive deliverables independently while maintaining transparency in a fast-paced environment.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

As a virtual infrastructure specialist on our team, you will be working on several big initiatives within the business. This role will require communication and interaction with multiple internal and external clients. The virtual infrastructure specialist will also troubleshoot issues and develop new enhancements to achieve targeted results. If you have experience in infrastructure management and infrastructure development through automation we want to hear from you. Your responsibilities will include:
• Administration of the IT virtual infrastructure
• Assist and take on duties in analyzing, designing and architecting virtual infrastructure
• Experience with designing, building, and maintaining a high-availability virtual environments
• Strong understanding of ESXi, vCenter, OVM/OLVM, and similar hypervisors
• Strong understanding of shared storage technologies including SAN, NAS, fiber channel, iSCSI, and NFS.
• Strong understanding of network technologies as it relates to the hypervisor
• Certification in virtual infrastructure technology an asset (vmware, OVM/OLVM)
• Strong understanding of ESXi host security
• Ability to perform root cause analysis and act on results
• Ability to perform performance analysis to determine bottlenecks
• Ability to automate day-to-day tasks/activities using scripting technologies (Ansible, PowerCLI, Powershell, Python)
• Ability to perform migration/upgrade of large-scale virtual environments (vSphere, OVM/OLVM)
• Knowledge in deploying and configuring Cisco UCS hardware (rackmount, blade & Hyperconverged technologies)
• Knowledge in converged and hyper-converged platforms (Nutanix experience an asset)
• Knowledge in Pure storage Flash Array and Flashblade systems is preferred
• Experience installing, configuring and managing VMWare virtual server environments and Storage Area Networking devices.
• Experience in building resilient virtual environments using various Disaster Recovery tools & techniques (Cirrus tool experience an asset)
• Ability to work independently, as well as collaborate in a team environment
• Effective planning and organizational skills; ability to complete assignments and meet deadlines
• Ability to create and write clear, complete documentation including policies/procedures and diagrams
• Demonstrated listening, verbal and written communication skills; accurately prepare all types of business correspondence, design and produce reports; ability to analyze and interpret job related business periodicals and technical manuals and assist in the preparation of training manuals.
• Ability to maintain highly confidential information; ability to multi-task and effectively manage stress and pressure through changing priorities calmly in all situations.
• Excellent customer service orientation and interpersonal skills for effective interaction with managers, employees, vendors, consultants and others; ability to exercise good judgment, sound reasoning skills and discretion in making independent decisions commensurate with responsibilities
• Sound understanding of datacenter operational processes coupled with proven business and analytical skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects, while ensuring that commitments and timetables are met
• Professional and diplomatic communication, verbal and written
• Ability to partner with internal stakeholders to design operational solutions
• Goal oriented, forward thinker that can provide solutions for complex technical problems

CGI is providing a reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role. The determination of this range includes factors such as skill set level, geographic market, experience and training, and licenses and certifications. Compensation decisions depend on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $75,000-$125,000. This role is an existing vacancy.

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Skills:

• Cisco
• English
• Linux
• Oracle Linux Kernel-based VM
• VMware
• Ansible
• French