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Vacancy Name Junior Hosting Engineer

Vacancy No VN431

Job Title Cloud Hosting Engineer

Work Location City Toronto, Canada

About Solifi

Solifi deliver a solid financial technology foundation for equipment, working capital, wholesale, and automotive finance firms. At Solifi, we believe that commerce is only as strong as the system it runs on. Our mission is to reshape finance technology by bringing together proven solutions into a singular powerful technology platform designed to help protect and scale financial organizations. We guard our customers by being precise and reliable, we guide their success by combining powerful technology with proven expertise, and we help them grow by unleashing their potential.

About The Team

The Cloud engineering team at Solifi is the backbone in the quest for organizational transformation toward microservices in the cloud at a global scale. As a member you inspire leading organizations to transform their IT infrastructure and improve operational efficiencies with the innovative power of Amazon Web Services (AWS), and other innovative Solifi technology solutions. Our SaaS services methodology enables organizations to benefit from the elasticity, scalability, security, and reliability of the cloud, based on industry best practices. Regardless of where our clients are in their cloud adoption journey, Solifi makes that transition strategic, tactical, and easier.

About the Position

Our hosting engineers are expected to bring a commercial and innovative mind-set and demonstrate a strong sense of personal accountability when providing end-to-end hosting services to all stakeholders. You will be delivering managed services in public and private cloud hosting environments.

Role and Responsibilities

• Build and maintain secure hosted environments primarily for public cloud using AWS and secondarily for private cloud using VMware.
• Liaising with the DevOps and Service Delivery teams to ensure consistent delivery of software services.
• Prioritize activities according to client need and group strategy.
• Ensure quality, up-to-date documentation exists for all hosted services.
• Manage appropriate Windows Server-based hosted environments (involving environment builds, network and storage management, firewall and switch configuration, patching, monitoring, etc.).
• Instil a high-performance culture in the team with a focus on teamwork and service excellence.
• Undertake other projects and roles as required from time to time by senior management.
• Remain up to date with the latest developments within the IT industry and apply them to White Clarke Group where appropriate.
• Able to motivate and coach other members of the team.
• Ensure that the appropriate supporting tools and processes are implemented to enable effective monitoring of the hosted platforms in line with contractual obligations, SLAs and KPIs.
• Work with the rest of the hosting team to design and deploy effective security policies, processes and procedures in line with industry benchmarks and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure that White Clarke Group hosting services comply with relevant national and international industry and quality regulations and frameworks incl. SSAE16 and ISAE3402.
• Deploying and maintaining White Clarke Group hosted software solutions built on Java, JBoss\WildFly stack, leveraging SQL Server or Oracle databases.
• Take responsibility for customer escalations and act as a point of escalation both in and out of hours as required.

About You

• Exposure to enterprise monitoring tools. Experience of Java Application Server management (JBoss, WildFly etc.).
• Experience with VMware is also preferable.
• Security focused mind-set to enforce security standards, both in the environments and when collaborating with teams.
• Experience of building hosting environments from the ground up, including activities from design through building to maintaining.
• Commercial experience delivering services through Amazon Web Services (utilizing the following: EC2, VPC, ALB, ELB, Route53, WAF, EBS, S3, Glacier, AutoScaling and CloudFormation).
• Experience and understanding of information security issues and industry standards such as SSAE16 and ISAE3402.
• BS/BA in related discipline or equivalent experience.
• Experience working with databases, with key understanding of SQL queries, backup & recovery strategies (SQL Server, Oracle).
• Good understanding of IP networking (both physical and virtual), DNS and Active Directory, SSL certificates (and PKI in general).
• Experience of designing and implementing DR strategies. Specific technologies used are: AWS (essential), Hyper-V\VMware (preferred), Windows Server, big-brand firewalls, physical servers and switches.
• Ability to analyze traffic for common services (DNS, FTP, email etc.).

Preferred Experience Level Less Than 1 Year

Preferred Education Level Bachelor's Degree

Employment Basis Full Time

Benefits Medical, Dental, Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance Coverage, RRSP/DPSP Retirement, Employee Assistance Program

Solifi does not sponsor employment visa for this role. Candidate must be able to pass background check.