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Senior Specialist, Virtualization, Storage & Backup Administrator Jobs in Ottawa, Canada at CMHC – SCHL
Title: Senior Specialist, Virtualization, Storage & Backup Administrator
Company: CMHC – SCHL
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Category:
Job Requisition : 11965
Position Status: Permanent Full Time
Position Type: Hybrid
Office Location: Ottawa (ON);
Montreal (QC)
Travel Requirement: Limited
Language Designation: English Essential
Language Skill Levels (Read/Write/Speak): ZZZ
Security Requirement: Secret
Salary: Our salaries generally range from $ to $ and are based on qualifications and experience.
About CMHC
The work you do and the work we do together matters. We come to work every day with a common purpose: to contribute to a well-functioning housing system.
At CMHC, we hold ourselves accountable for our results and support our colleagues in their achievements. We thrive on collaboration, connecting across CMHC and involving the right people to get our work done. Our leadership style is guided by trust, where our leaders favour an adaptive approach based on the needs of their teams.
Join us and be part of a team that’s committed to making a real difference and be part of something meaningful.
What’s in it for you
We’ve got the purpose, the people and the perks you need for a fulfilling career. Here’s the comprehensive and generous benefits you get when you’re a permanent employee:
- Annual Paid vacation.
- Annual individual performance incentive.
- Defined benefit pension plan.
- Comprehensive group insurance plan to support your well-being from day one.
- Support towards your personal and professional growth with training, mentorship and more.
- An inclusive workplace culture and environment.
- While positions at CMHC require some in-office presence, alternative work arrangements may be considered for Indigenous candidates.
About the role
Join the Infrastructure and Operations Team, in the Senior Specialist – Virtualization, Storage & Backup Administrator position. In this role you will be responsible for the advanced operation, stability, security, and modernization of enterprise infrastructure across on‑premises and hybrid environments. You will operate and optimize core infrastructure platforms, lead complex troubleshooting and incident resolution, and support modernization initiatives to deliver resilient, secure, and reliable services aligned with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity standards, and ITSM (Information Technology Service Management) best practices.
What you will do:
- Operate and support enterprise infrastructure platforms across compute & virtualization, network and voice/video, storage and backup, and database technologies in on‑premises and hybrid environments.
- Ensure infrastructure stability and performance by proactively monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing health, capacity, and availability, resolving issues before they impact services.
- Lead complex incident and problem resolution, acting as a senior technical escalation point and performing root cause analysis in alignment with ITSM processes.
- Drive infrastructure lifecycle and modernization activities, including platform upgrades, system refreshes, workload migrations, and data center or cloud‑adjacent initiatives.
- Contribute expert technical input to the design and implementation of new infrastructure capabilities, ensuring solutions are operationally sound, scalable, and secure.
- Strengthen security, backup, and recoverability by implementing security controls, maintaining and testing backup and disaster recovery solutions, and remediating vulnerabilities and patching gaps.
- Improve operational efficiency through automation and documentation, developing scripts, tools, standards, and runbooks that support consistent and resilient operations.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor and mentor, collaborating across IT teams, providing guidance to peers and junior staff, and fostering a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement.
What you should have:
- A bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. An equivalent combination of education and/or experience can be considered.
- A minimum 7 years of experience in enterprise IT infrastructure roles.
- Senior‑level, hands‑on experience across compute/virtualization, networking, storage, backup, and database platforms.
- Experience supporting on‑premises and hybrid cloud environments.
- Experience…