Date Posted: 09/10/2025
Req ID: 45134
Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga
Department: UTM: Info. & Inst. Tech. Services
Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
Position Number: 00026152
Description:
About us:
The University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM), one of the three campuses of Canada’s top-ranked university and the only research university in Ontario’s booming Peel Region, is one of the world’s great catalysts of human potential.
Our employee community hums with the energy of 3,400 faculty, librarians and staff, who power our campus with curiosity, connection and care. We work together to spark life-changing research, make an indelible mark on the world by building equitable cities and societies, enable healthy lives, create a sustainable future and ignite entrepreneurship. Above all, we prioritize student success, and seek to give our 16,500 students the lift of a lifetime through learning and discovery. We love to open opportunities available nowhere else for our community to achieve their ambitions and make their unique contributions to Canada and the world.
This work all comes together on a spectacularly green campus, alongside the Missinihe-ziibi (Trusting Creek or Credit River), where we seek to honour truth, reciprocity and reconciliation on the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, Seneca and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. We’re thrilled to welcome those who want to learn more about us and to be part of what we do.
Your opportunity:
Do you want to work with an organization named a top GTA employer for 17 years in a row, and in 2025 alone was selected as one of Canada's Top 100 Employers, Canada's Top Family-Friendly Employers and Greater Toronto's Top Employers? Do you want to work within a modern IT department using cutting-edge technology that will invest in you and your career? Then look no further!
The University of Toronto has the exceptional human resources programs and forward-thinking workplace policies to receive this perennial recognition. We recognize that people need their employers to invest in them and enrich their lives; we have great benefits, flexible work options, advancement opportunities, professional development programs, employee family assistance plans, a full pension, generous vacation, educational assistance and tuition waivers for you and your children.
At UTM, Information & Instructional Technology Services (I&ITS) is more than a service provider — we are the trusted technology partner for a growing research and teaching community. Our team manages enterprise-class infrastructure that spans networks, virtual environments, research and teaching clusters, and secure cloud platforms. We thrive on collaboration, continuous improvement, and building innovative, sustainable solutions. Joining I&ITS means working with colleagues who share a passion for enabling discovery, supporting students, and shaping the future of technology on campus.
As a Senior Systems Administrator at the University of Toronto Mississauga, you’ll have the chance to lead meaningful change. You will design and modernize core systems, be at the ground floor of integrating advanced cloud services, and support large-scale enterprise environments that directly enable cutting-edge research and student learning. This isn’t a back-room role — your expertise will shape tactical and operational decisions across on-premises and cloud computing services.
You’ll be the go-to subject matter expert for colleagues and partners, bringing both technical depth and problem-solving creativity. Whether you are mentoring peers, leading projects, or architecting new solutions, your work will make a tangible impact across the campus. For those seeking both technical challenge and the satisfaction of advancing a university’s mission, this is a rare opportunity.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Designing and implementing new operating systems and subsystems server software
- Analyzing and configuring highly complex enterprise applications and services
- Devising solutions to operational problems within the capacity and operational limitations of installed equipment
- Creating complex and technical documentation and user support guides
- Designing and implementing cloud application architecture according to requirements
- Leading and planning IT projects
- Researching, analyzing and recommending solutions to project challenges
Essential Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience.
- Minimum of five years of system administrator hands-on experience with Microsoft Windows and Linux Operating systems
- Minimum of five years of web server, application and database deployment and administration
- Minimum of five years of hands-on experience with Microsoft Active Directory
- Demonstrated experience implementing and managing services in any cloud platform (Azure, Google, AWS)
- Demonstrated experience with large scale technical projects
- Understanding of system and application security hardening, vulnerability assessment and patch management in a production environment
- Highly proficient in Linux and Windows scripting including Python, BASH and Powershell
- Experience working with hypervisor infrastructure such as VMware in a production environment
- Extensive experience with Linux-Active Directory integration
- Excellent problem solving, analytical, presentation and communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills with high organizational and leadership qualities
Assets (Nonessential):
- ITIL foundations level (or higher) certification
- Demonstrated experience working in a structure change management environment
- Experience working with the ServiceNow platform
- Familiar with a higher education environment, governance and policies
- Experience with datacenter infrastructure management
To be successful in this role you will be:
- Accountable
- Cooperative
- Organized
- Procedural
- Team player
Closing Date: 09/19/2025, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW
Appointment Type: Budget - Continuing
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 16 -- $103,367. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $132,188. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol.
Job Category: Information Technology (IT)
Lived Experience Statement
Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.
