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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 3,000 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.\nAre you ready to launch the next stage of your career in the new space economy? We would love to hear from you!\nSummary:\nMDA Geospatial Services is strengthening its Information Technology team in support of RADARSAT-2 (R2) and RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) satellites operations as well as preparation and support for the upcoming CHORUS mission. In this context, we are seeking an experienced and versatile IT specialist to join our team in St. Hubert, QC.\n MDA is seeking a bright and capable System Administrator to join our team of Information Technology (IT) professionals operating and maintaining the RADAR satellite missions Ground Systems. Your position in the IT operations team will leverage your skills honed over several years of active practice, your solid self-management skills, and the professional attitude required to work within large teams and across departments. You will be a member of the team, which maintains the posture of the various systems throughout their operational life cycle. The RCM is a multi-site system and comprises a wide range of information technologies, including many that are specifically related to cyber security. You will be participating in protecting a system that is important to Canada’s national security interest.\nThis position is located at the MDA Control Centre, Canadian Space Agency Headquarters, in St Hubert, PQ.\n Responsibilities:\nPerform security triage to identify and analyze IT incidents and threats.\nDeveloping strategies and approaches to integrating on-premise systems and cloud-deployed systems including upgrades and enhancements, in the areas of networking and security, cost monitoring and minimization, and system management and maintenance.\nMaintain operational workflows\nKey contributor to system network and hardware maintenance, as well as its ongoing documentation.\nTroubleshooting system and network issues.\nWorking together with stakeholders to develop solutions that satisfy customer requirements, system constraints, security concerns, project needs and corporate IT policies.\nUpdating and developing tools, processes, and best practices that contribute to the continual improvement of development, deployment, and maintenance activities such as automated scripts, test procedures, installation plans, etc.\nMaintaining configuration control of all system components (HW and COTS SW), track components, media and data within classified systems and support audits of the system\nProvide product in-service support for equipment fielded with customers, both on customer sites and in factory, including: incoming HW inspections, diagnosis, repair, testing, formal-testing with QA witness, and test report generation.\nInstallation of hardware, networking and operating systems.\nParticipating in the procurement, installation, configuration and administration of specialized computer systems.\nRequirements:\nA Diploma, Degree or equivalent experience in cybersecurity, computer science, Information Systems or related fields, and 5+ years of relevant professional experience.\nExperience with monitoring tools for troubleshooting and performance reporting.\nExperience in high availability and disaster recovery.\nHave a solid understanding and System Administration experience on operating systems such as Windows, Linux, and VMware\nExperience in command line interfaces in Windows and Linux-based operating systems.\nExperience in Active Directory Services, DHCP, DNS and IIS.\nExperience in Virtual environments.\nExperience installing firewalls and enterprise managed network switches.\nAbility to physically install equipment such as racking servers, storage, power distribution, air conditioning, network equipment, workstations and monitors. This includes lifting heavy equipment (approx. 50lb), climbing ladders and running cables including under subfloors.\nAbility to quickly learn on the job and leverage your experiences and knowledge.\nExcellent general trouble shooting, problem-solving, creative and critical thinking skills.\nExcellent verbal and written communication (Department reporting to Ontario head office).\nAbility to take initiative on issues that arise.\nDesirable Skillsets:\nExperience with highly secure environments following NIST 800-171 and/or CIS guidelines.\nTraining on cybersecurity systems, security system operations, and tools provided by suppliers.\nExperience in IT project management\nExperience architecting complex systems deployed in on-premise and/or cloud infrastructure, including:\nSecurity design and best practices, encryption, secure boot, etc…\nNetwork infrastructure such as firewalls, load balancing, virtual networks, zero-trust networking.\nCompute infrastructure including VM management, 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