Infrastructure Specialist

Location: North York, ON

Reports to: Senior Manager, Infrastructure & Platforms

Onsite: 5 days a week (hybrid available for the right candidate)

Salary: open to best rate depending on the experience

Purpose of position

To provide highly specialized senior technical leadership and coordination for data centre operations, network, storage, virtualization, and cloud infrastructure management and administration activities and projects in a mission‑critical, multi‑platform and multi‑protocol environment. To provide authoritative technical expertise and leadership and recommend related solutions, network management tools and options to enhance network operations.

Qualifications

• 10–15+ years of progressive experience in enterprise IT infrastructure
• 7+ years in senior or lead roles covering Data centre operations, network, storage, virtualization, and cloud platforms.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, multi‑stream infrastructure projects, managing production environments with strict change control, and coordinating operational acceptance and transitions.
• Enterprise routing/switching, firewalls, load balancing, WAN, SD‑WAN
• SAN/NAS, replication, backup, DR, performance tuning
• Hyper‑V, container platforms (Kubernetes knowledge an asset)
• Microsoft Azure (IaaS, PaaS, networking, identity, automation, monitoring, and cost optimization).
• Capacity planning, performance management, incident/problem management
• DR/BCP, vulnerability management, patching, access controls

Certifications

• Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate
• ITIL v4 (Intermediate or Managing Professional preferred)

Note

AI‑enabled tools may be used to sort applications based on job‑related criteria. All AI generated results are vetted by our team and the decision of which candidates move forward is always made by a human.