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1. Windows Server Administrator / Architect - Toronto
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Pink Triangle Press, Canada's leading gay and lesbian media organization, and one of the most diversified gay media enterprises in the world, with investments in various print, web, and television properties, is looking for a Windows Server Administrator / Architect.
The Windows Server Administrator / Architect is responsible for the design, provisioning, installation, configuration, operation, and maintenance of the web server infrastructure network, hardware and software systems. This individual ensures that system hardware, network components, operating and software systems, and related items adhere to industry best practices for design, management and security.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement and manage a scalable network and server infrastructure to support our growing web presence
- Maintain the daily operations of primary business servers, load balancers and firewalls
- 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
- Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities. Add and configure new services as necessary
- Troubleshoot network issues
- Install, rebuild, configure, optimize and maintain server and network hardware and software
- Provide a combination of systems maintenance, systems upgrades, and systems troubleshooting
- Provide capacity planning, performance tuning and backup/recovery
- Complete and maintain documentation pertaining to information systems
- Performing on-call duties (24/7 off-hours)
- Supporting the business infrastructure server team and web developers
Responsibility Scope:
- 40 percent operations
- 40 percent support tasks
- 20 percent engineering
Must Have Skills:
- Generally: solid networking experience, server management, server virtualization and storage management
- Experience architecting and managing Windows 2003 – 2008 operating system environments specifically as dedicated to supporting a web server environment including Active Directory, IIS, SQL Server and .Net. That is, experience designing and deploying hardware and software for large scale internet applications, including web servers, firewalls, load balancers, database servers and storage devices
- NetApp storage solution experience
- Apache, PHP, MySQL in a Windows environment (WAMP)
- VMware deployment experience (preferably vSphere 5) ESX Server v. 3.5
- VMware Server on Windows 2008
- Network Infrastructure (General Network Services Management i.e., Static NAT, Dynamic NAT, NAT Overload, Microsoft DNS, DHCP, DHCP over VLAN & Subnetting, Microsoft RAS, Bandwidth Shaping and Policies over Microsoft NAT and Microsoft IAS
- Switching Skills: VLANing Design and Deployment, Load Balancing, Spanning Tree
- Routing Skills: Routing Protocols Design and Deployment, Multiple Gateway Protocols Design and Deployment, Load Balancing
- Quality of Services Deployment and design over VoIP and Video Over IP, AutoQOS
- Cisco Monitoring Services based on CiscoWorks and Cisco Network Assistant (CNA)
- SMTP
- In-depth knowledge of security concepts, DNS and BIND network fundamentals
Nice To Have Skills:
- Experience in a web publishing environment.
- High-volume Internet hosting experience.
- Fortigate Load Balancers
- Barracuda Firewalls
- Windows Deployment Services (WDS)
- Administering Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server
- OpenX experience
- Administering Microsoft Update Services (WSUS)
- SQL Server DB Administration experience
- Industry certifications would be an asset
We are looking for about 5 - 10 years of experience for this position. Telecommuting is an option.
Compensation includes salary, an employee benefits package and professional development opportunities. Other attractions are a diverse workforce composed of sociable, dedicated and talented people at work on a wide variety of print and electronic media.
Pink Triangle Press is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from women and members of minority groups.
Application deadline: 1 June, 2012.
Please submit your application, including resume, to bdd@xtra.ca
No phone calls, please.
Only qualified applicants will be contacted.