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A robotics, satellite systems and geointelligence pioneer with a 55-year+ story of world firsts and more than 450 missions, MDA Space is a global leader in communications satellites, Earth and space observation, and space exploration and infrastructure. The MDA Space team of more than 4,000 space experts in Canada, the US and the UK has the knowledge and know-how to turn an audacious customer vision into an achievable mission - bringing to bear a one-of-a-kind mix of experience, engineering excellence and wide-eyed wonder that’s been in our DNA since day one. For those who dream big and push boundaries on the ground and in the stars to change the world for the better, we’ll take you there.\nThe Role:\nMDA Space is seeking a Senior Virtualization and Storage Administrator, to own and support enterprise virtualization and storage platforms across the organization. The successful candidate will design, operate, secure, monitor, and optimize SAN, NAS, Hyper-V, Proxmox, and related infrastructure services. This role will support high availability, disaster recovery, capacity planning, platform lifecycle management, and migration initiatives, including reducing dependency on legacy virtualization platforms where appropriate. The role requires deep hands-on technical capability, strong troubleshooting discipline, automation skills, and the ability to collaborate with Backup, Network, Security, Linux, Windows, and Application teams.\n.Job Responsibilities:\nDesign, deploy, administer, monitor, and optimize enterprise virtualization platforms including Microsoft Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere/ESXi and related management tooling. \nSupport virtualization platform lifecycle activities including upgrades, patching, cluster configuration, host firmware coordination, compatibility validation, and retirement of legacy platforms.\nPlan and execute workload migrations between virtualization platforms, including VMware to Hyper-V or Proxmox, with appropriate rollback, testing, documentation, and stakeholder communication.\nDesign, implement, and administer enterprise storage platforms including SAN, NAS, DAS, block, file, and cloud-integrated storage.\nManage storage presentation and connectivity including LUN provisioning, zoning coordination, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, NFS, SMB, MPIO/multipathing, snapshots, replication, deduplication, and capacity allocation.\nMonitor and tune virtualization and storage performance, including host CPU/memory contention, VM latency, datastore latency, IOPS, throughput, storage queue depth, network paths, and capacity trends.\nWork closely with Backup, Network, Security, Windows, Linux, and application teams to maintain resilient infrastructure aligned to business RTO and RPO requirements.\nDevelop, maintain, and test disaster recovery and business continuity runbooks for virtual workloads and storage services.\nEnsure high availability configurations are documented, tested, and aligned with business resiliency objectives.\nPerform regular system updates, patches, and security configurations.\nCreate and maintain detailed documentation of the virtualization and storage infrastructure.\nSupport security and compliance requirements through hardening, access control, privileged account management, patch compliance, vulnerability remediation, and audit evidence.\nDevelop and implement automation scripts to improve system efficiency and reduce manual tasks.\nConduct capacity planning and prepare recommendations for hardware refresh, platform consolidation, storage growth, lifecycle risk, and cost optimization.\nParticipate in change management, project planning, vendor coordination, and after-hours support as required.\nServe as the senior escalation point and technical lead for virtualization and storage-related incidents and projects.\nMentor junior administrators and provide technical guidance for complex virtualization and storage issues.\nOther duties as required\nMust-have Qualifications:\n8+ years of progressive systems administration or infrastructure engineering experience, with significant hands-on focus on virtualization and enterprise storage.\nBachelor's degree or equivalent combination of relevant experience and 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As a member of the MDA Space team, you and your eligible dependents can enroll in a benefits plan that provides a comprehensive level of protection through competitive health care, including: health care plans supplemental and flexible drug plans, dental and vision benefits, disability income protection, life insurance, group retirement savings plans and an employee assistance program and to their family.\nEqual Opportunity Statement:\nMDA Space is an equal opportunity employer with a strong focus on diversity and inclusion. We are committed to treating all employees and candidates with respect and dignity. 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