{"id":1148314,"url":"https://alion.io/job/contactnb-systems-administrator-iii-linux","title":"Systems Administrator III (Linux)","company":{"id":1111973,"name":"ContactNB","domain":"contactnb.ca","url":"https://alion.io/company/contactnb","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":null},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"middle","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Toronto, Canada"],"countries":["CA"],"hiring_countries":["CA"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":{"min":85000,"max":113000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":113000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":3,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Active Directory","optional":false},{"name":"Ansible","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Bash","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub","optional":false},{"name":"ITIL","optional":false},{"name":"Least Privilege","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"PCI DSS","optional":false},{"name":"PKI","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Red Hat","optional":false},{"name":"ServiceNow","optional":false},{"name":"VMWare","optional":false},{"name":"CyberArk","optional":true},{"name":"Dynatrace","optional":true},{"name":"Microsoft Defender","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-04T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-08-04","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T09:48:55Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":51,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":51},"description":"Systems Administrator III (Linux)\nYour Moneris Career - The Opportunity\nAs a Systems Administrator III (Linux), you will engineer, automate, secure, and continuously improve the enterprise Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) platform that underpins Moneris’ business-critical payments services across on-premises datacentersand cloud.\nThis is asenior,hands-on infrastructure rolecenteredon operating and modernizing a large-scale RHEL estate of thousands of virtual machines spanning development through mission-critical production. You will build reusable automation at scale with Ansible, Python, and Bash; drive lifecycle management through patching, upgrades, and migrations; and harden the environment against payments-industry compliance standards. Working independently with sound judgment, you will partner with Platform, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Operations, Information Security, and Infrastructure Architecture teams to deliver a consistent, resilient, and secure operating environment. You will also mature service ownership, mentor less-experienced colleagues, and reduce operational drift through standards-based engineering.\nLocation: You will be based in our Toronto office, balancing in-office collaboration with remote flexibility.\nReporting Relationship: You will report to Manager, Systems Infrastructure\nPosting Type: Replacement Position\nSalary Range: The expected base salary range for this role is $85,000 - $113,000\nTotal compensation may also include variable or discretionary incentive components, including but not limited to bonuses and commissions. Individual job offers aredeterminedbyvarious factors, including experience, education, skills, certifications, and other business needs.\nYour Moneris Career - Whatyou'lldo\nAdminister, maintain, and support a large-scale RHEL estate of thousands of virtual machines across development, test, and mission-critical production.\n\nBuild andmaintainreusable automation at scale using Red Hat Ansible, Bash, Python, and GitHub to enforce standards and reduce manual effort.\n\nManage platform currency through patching, upgrades, in-place migrations, remediation, and decommissioning using Red Hat Satellite and Hybrid Cloud Console.\n\nLead and support projects covering implementation, modernization, service transition, and operational readiness across hybrid infrastructure.\n\nTroubleshoot complex issues to root cause across operating system,compute, storage, virtualization, identity, and network-adjacent layers.\n\nSupport server hardening, vulnerability remediation, and compliance activities within a least-privilege, PCI DSS-regulated environment.\n\nManage incidents, requests, problems, and changes in ServiceNow, aligned to enterpriseITILchange management processes.\n\nCreate andmaintainbuild standards,automationplaybooks, technical documentation, diagrams, and knowledge base articles.\n\nYour Moneris Career - What you bring\nRequired qualifications\nMinimum 3 years administering and supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7/8/9/10 on x86_64 at enterprise scale, including thousands of VMs across multiple environments.\n\nExtensive hands-on automation experience with Red Hat Ansible, Bash, Python, and GitHub to deliver standards-based, consistent, secure environments at scale.\n\nStrong experience with Linux build, patching, upgrade, in-place migration, and decommissioning workflows, including Red Hat Satellite and Hybrid Cloud Console.\n\nExperience integrating RHEL with Active Directory using SSSD and Kerberoskeytabswithin a least-privilege security model.\n\nExperience with virtualization such as VMware vSphere or Nutanix AHV and supporting Infrastructure as aService (IaaS) virtual machinesin Microsoft Azure.\n\nDemonstrated root-cause troubleshooting across OS,compute, storage, virtualization, and network-adjacent layers, with a record of continuous service improvement.\n\nWorking knowledge of IPv4 fundamentals, network segmentation, PKI, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery concepts, plus ServiceNow and ITIL processes.\n\nPreferred qualifications\nExperience in a regulated industry, ideally payments or Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) environments.\n\nFamiliarity with server hardening using Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guidelines, with tools such as Microsoft Defender,OpenSCAP, and Forta Tripwire.\n\nExperience with CyberArk Privileged Access Management andConjursecrets management, Venafi, Azure Arc, and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (ATP).\n\nExposure to container-based infrastructure, DevOps pipelines, and observability tooling such asCheckMKand Dynatrace, plusGlusterFS/FUSE, NFS, and Postfix.\n\nWhat you get\nEmphasis on Wellness - Meeting Free Fridays (MF2), company-wide holiday closure, just to name a few\n\nRRSP matching & defined contribution pension plan\n\nFlexible benefits package starting from day 1\n\nThrive in a Hybrid or Remote Model - including a tech peripheral rebate!\n\nExtensive learning & development programs and resources - plus unlimited free access to LinkedIn Learning and Udemy courses!\n\nEAP (Employee Assistance Program), Educational Assistance and Recognition Program\n\nEmployeeperkprogram with incredible discounts for over 2,400 vendors!\n\nGet involved in one or many of our Moneris Committees and Employee Resource Groups - Inclusive Workplace Council (IWC), Black Employee Network, just to name a few\n\nLearn more about how Moneris is striving to be at the forefront of Fintech! (https://www.moneris.com/en/Careers/Tech)\nNote: We welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, people of colour, people with disabilities, people of all genders, sexual orientation and intersectional identities.\nAI Disclosure: We may use AI-enabled tools to screen, select, and assess applications. All AI outputs are reviewed and validated by our recruitment team.\nWe acknowledge that people from equity-deserving groups (including racialized individuals, women, gender diverse individuals, individuals with disabilities, neurodivergent individuals, members of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities and those born outside of Canada) are less likely to apply for jobs unless they feel they meet all the requirements posted. At Moneris, we believe candidates bring experience to their work in many ways. 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