Linux Systems Administrator

Our client, a rapidly growing healthcare technology company supporting clinics across Canada and the U.S., is seeking a Linux Systems Administrator to help strengthen and scale their IT operations. In this role, you’ll take ownership of hybrid infrastructure spanning on-prem and cloud environments, ensuring performance, reliability, and automation at every level. From virtualization and networking to CI/CD and system monitoring, you’ll play a key role in maintaining a secure, high-availability environment that supports critical business systems. 💻 Who You Are You’re a versatile IT professional who thrives in complex environments and enjoys building resilient systems through automation. You bring a balance of hands-on technical skills, structured problem-solving, and a forward-thinking mindset. You’re comfortable managing both legacy and modernized platforms, ensuring infrastructure runs smoothly, efficiently, and securely. 📍 Work Type Fully Onsite – 5 days a week in office Location: Vaughan, ON Vacancy Type: This is a newly created position Requirements 🎯 What You’ll Do (Your Superpowers) Manage and maintain VMware, Proxmox, and Azure environments to ensure a stable, secure, and scalable infrastructure. Administer and optimize enterprise network infrastructure, including switches, routers, firewalls, VLANs, VPNs, and wireless connectivity to ensure reliable network performance. Configure and maintain pfSense, HAProxy, Cisco networking devices, and core network services (DNS, DHCP) to support high availability and secure connectivity. Implement and maintain network security best practices, including firewall policies, segmentation, access controls, and secure remote connectivity. Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployments using Ansible and related automation tools. Oversee server hardware, NAS, and backup solutions, ensuring redundancy, disaster recovery, and data protection. Administer and optimize Linux and Windows servers, performing patching, performance tuning, and troubleshooting across both systems and network environments. Deploy and manage Docker and Kubernetes environments, improving application scalability and microservices performance. Monitor infrastructure and network health using Grafana, Prometheus, and Zabbix, implementing proactive alerting, logging, and performance monitoring. Manage and maintain MySQL, MongoDB, and SQLite databases with a focus on reliability, replication, backup, and performance optimization ⭐ What We’re Looking For (Our Wishlist) 4+ years of hands-on experience in systems administration, network administration or infrastructure engineering Strong understanding of Linux server administration (required), with experience managing Windows environments Strong networking knowledge, including TCP/IP, routing, switching, VLANs, DNS, DHCP, VPNs, load balancers, and enterprise firewall administration Proven skills in virtualization…