# Systems Administrator - Cloud

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- **Id**: 4046092
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/mcgill-university-systems-administrator-cloud>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Canada
- **Countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T23:57:10Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T23:57:10Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6909
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Hybrid work, Life insurance, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Higher Education

## Company

- **Id**: 5757
- **Name**: McGill University
- **Domain**: mcgill.ca
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/mcgill>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 97
- **Open postings**: 18
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.333
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 19
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 73470
- **Max**: 91840
- **Currency**: CAD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 64706

## Technologies

- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **Debian** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **HPC** — Optional: no
- **KVM** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **OpenStack** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **QEMU** — Optional: no
- **RabbitMQ** — Optional: no
- **Ubuntu** — Optional: no
- **VLAN** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: French; Level: Upper-Intermediate (B2); Optional: no
- Language: English; Level: Upper-Intermediate (B2); Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T23:57:10Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 19
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T02:58:51Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 64706
- **Is top pay**: no

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