Position: Senior Systems Engineer
Location: Downtown Toronto, ON
Salary: $85–$90 per hour
Job Type: 6-month contract
Posting Type: Open vacancy
Working Model: Hybrid – 1–2 days onsite per week
Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Systems Engineer with deep Linux infrastructure expertise and strong DevOps automation experience to support major enterprise infrastructure modernization initiatives.
This hands-on role focuses on Linux administration, infrastructure automation, and large-scale migrations, including Nutanix infrastructure upgrades and Solaris-to-RHEL modernization.
Responsibilities:
- Administer and support enterprise Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) environments.
- Develop Ansible playbooks and automate provisioning, patching, and configuration management.
- Support infrastructure migrations, including VMware ESXi to Nutanix AHV and Solaris to RHEL.
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and production issues.
- Support cloud technologies, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and security compliance.
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation.
Qualifications:
- 8–10+ years of Linux systems engineering experience.
- Expert-level RHEL administration skills.
- Strong Ansible automation and Bash/KSH scripting experience.
- Experience with enterprise infrastructure, patching, and lifecycle management.
- Familiarity with Nutanix AHV, VMware ESXi, Azure, and CI/CD tools.
- Strong troubleshooting skills in enterprise environments.
- Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Solaris migrations is an asset.
What We're Looking For
We’re looking for a senior, hands-on engineer with a strong automation mindset and experience supporting enterprise production environments. The ideal candidate is comfortable working across Linux, DevOps, virtualization, and cloud technologies while contributing to major infrastructure modernization projects.
Interested? Please send your resume in Word format to Shannon Scullion at shannon.scullion@quantum-qtr.com.
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