IT Infrastructure Specialist
Posted 14 Oct 2026
Advertised as “Senior Specialist, IT Infrastructure”
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- Expected experience
- 7+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Hybrid
No salary listed for this role.
Study levelBachelor's
Req ID: 140706
Remote Position: Hybrid
Region: Americas
Country: Canada
State/Province: Ontario
City: Toronto
Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled, hands-on Technical Lead to design, build, and actively engineer our enterprise cloud and hybrid platform infrastructure. The candidate will directly write code, engineer systems, configure virtual networks, and troubleshoot complex production workloads.
Operating with a product-based environment, you will serve as the primary technical authority for our infrastructure, heavily leveraging Microsoft Azure as our primary cloud foundation alongside secondary multi-cloud setups (AWS/CGP). You will also directly manager underlying operating systems (Linuz & Windows) and virtualization platforms (VMware, Hyper-V) across hybrid deployments.
Detailed Description
Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:
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Directly provision, configure, and maintain production workloads on Microsoft Azure (Primary), with working operational experience on AWS and GCP.
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Hands-on administration of enterprise virtualization platforms, specifically VMware vSphere/ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V, for hybrid cloud integrations and compute management.
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Write, test, and deploy modular Terraform scripts for Azure, multi-cloud, and virtualized resource orchestration.
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Automate configuration management, VM patching, and state compliance using Ansible playbooks.
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Hands-on systems engineering, performance tuning, and hardening across enterprise Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS) and Windows Server environments.
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Diagnose and resolve OS-level bottlenecks, kernel/system performance issues, disk/volume allocations, and active directory / identity integrations.
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Directly deploy, manage, and scale enterprise Kubernetes clusters across public cloud and on-premise platforms: AKS (Azure), EKS (AWS), GKE (GCP), bare-metal/virtualized on-prem Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift.
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Implement ingress routing, service meshes, cluster security policies, CNI plugins, and monitoring setups.
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Develop operational tooling, continuous delivery scripts, and cloud automation using Python (Mandatory) and advanced Shell/Bash (plus PowerShell for Windows automation).
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Build, manage, and optimize enterprise build and release pipelines using Azure DevOps (ADO) and GitLab CI/CD.