an exciting opportunity for a Systems Administrator to join the Brucejack Mine in Northwestern, British Columbia on a Full Time basis. The Systems Administrator will ultimately be responsible for secure and reliable day-to-day operation of IT systems, infrastructure, and application platforms within the Brucejack Camp. The successful candidate will have responsibility for the technical design, installation, and support of mission critical enterprise systems, including servers, security systems, intranets, and other data communication systems. The successful candidate for this position will enables the business to grow and operate securely while maintaining high availability, as well as providing technical support of business applications with diverse requirements.
 
This position is located at Pretium Exploration Inc.'s “Pretium” Brucejack Mine and reports to the Project & Operations Managers onsite, and work a rotating schedule encompassing 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off.
 
 
Responsibilities:

• Administration of Corporate and Site IT infrastructure, physical and virtual servers and network storage devices
• Administration of VMware vSphere 5.5 and Hyper-V
• Manage Active Directory, Office 365 and hosted MS Exchange
• Firewalls, VPNs & WiFi (Like Fortinet, SonicWall, Cisco & Meraki)
• Manage Corporate and Site backups (Veeam) ensuring data protection and recoverability
• Develop and test robust disaster recovery plan, including on-site and off-site backups
• Optimize network performance by monitoring, analyzing, and tuning
• Create and maintain system documentation and specifications
• Technical support of business applications (JDE an asset)
• Monitor IT systems and respond to the security or usability concerns
• Respond to and resolve help desk requests/ on-call support
• Must work independently and in a group to manage full scope of responsibilities with minimal supervision

Qualifications:
·         Experience 3 to 5 years - in IT systems administration and support services
·         Relevant Post-Secondary certifications, degree, technical training
o    Industry certifications such as Microsoft MCP, MCSA, or MCSE, or MCITP is an asset
·         Microsoft Server (Active Directory, DNS, DHCP)
·         Microsoft SQL replication, maintenance, and backups
·         Network services and architecture (DHCP, DNS, TCP/IP, LAN, WAN, WLAN, VPN, etc.) - asset
·         infrastructure, including firewalls, network switches, physical and virtual servers and network storage devices
·         Virtualization - VMware vSphere 5.5 – Hyper-V
·         Enterprise level backup (experience with Veeam backup is a plus)
·         Managing network equipment/ firewall (Cisco, Sonicwall, Fortinet)
·         Active Directory Administration
·         Office 365 and hosted MS Exchange
·         Organized, responsible, and able to effectively deal with multiple concurrent responsibilities
·         Fast learner with the ability to work independently and collaboratively
·         Tactful with strong communications skills
·         Strong analytical/problem solving skills with high attention to details
·         Hands-on, self-sufficient and demonstrate a positive can do attitude
·         Customer oriented.
 
Assets & Nice to Haves (Not Mandatory):

• Managing Cisco network switches
  • Managing ESXi hosts (Cisco UCS servers is a plus)
  • Experience working with Linux server operating systems
• Nutanix Experience