Sr. Systems Engineer

TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods is a great place to work. You can see it in our team members. The diversity of the team and their unique contributions set us apart from the competition. Our success is based as much on our future-friendly team as on the innovative technology solutions we offer.

Our team members include people like you – enthusiastic, innovative, passionate, and energetic. We believe that you'll find our high-performance culture personally fulfilling, professionally challenging, and financially rewarding.

Here’s the impact you will make and what we will accomplish together

TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods is leveraging our world-leading technology and innovation to create better producer-to-consumer outcomes. To do this, we are creating a unified, trusted, and sustainable value chain that enables the most efficient production and logistics outcomes while lowering the impact on the environment. We deliver actionable digital solutions and data insights that connect global supply chains, improving the safety, quality and sustainability of food and consumer goods, all in a way that's traceable and clear to the end consumer.

We offer an unmatched suite of innovative solutions and purpose-built applications for every participant in the supply chain, from seed manufacturers and farmers through to grocery stores and consumer goods companies. Our solutions are comprised of the latest technologies that enable our customers to optimize their businesses and move goods through supply chains with more accuracy, efficiency, and profit to get the right products to the shelf at the right time and at the right price, creating more sustainable production and consumption outcomes.

As part of the Cloud Hosting and Infrastructure team, you will work on the administration, migration, and improvement of TELUS Agriculture and Consumer Goods various I.T. Systems.

Here’s how: 

• Assist with the continual improvement of TELUS Agriculture’s technical strategy.
• Work on achieving the TELUS Agriculture technical strategy through participating in infrastructure projects.
• Help identify and complete tasks to continually improve the TELUS Agriculture infrastructure platform.
• Support and monitor resources and networks to ensure the smooth running of all systems and continued adoption of best practices.
• Investigate and resolve problems during the IT life cycle, ensuring fast and accurate solutions to meet user needs.
• Provide support and an escalation point for other teams to troubleshoot issues and complete tasks.
• Communicate technical issues and solutions to all parts of the business to ensure that users are informed in an appropriate and timely manner.
• Assist with the management process for internal code releases to production.
• Ensure systems are accurately and effectively documented.
• Ensure all work is securely undertaken so that the company’s systems and data are not compromised.
• Ensure all disaster recovery systems are working correctly and assist with backup maintenance and validation.
• Participate in on-call rotations alongside the rest of the team.
• Understand and assist in the enactment of TELUS Agriculture’s continuity plans.
• Attend seminars to represent the company in the market and to keep up to date with technology, security, compliance and legislative changes that may impact the IT function and business and identify potential solutions.
• Assist with skills development and training of less experienced team members.

Governance

• Understand and comply with safety policies and procedures at all times and take all necessary actions to ensure the health, safety and welfare of yourself, your colleagues and third parties.
• Understand and comply with Company Data Protection and Information Security policies at all times.
• Other reasonable duties which you may occasionally be requested to perform.

What you bring to this role

• Knowledge & Skills
  • Windows Server and Active Directory administration
  • SAN/Storage Administration
  • Infrastructure Virtualization & Migration(HyperV, VMWare)
  • Infrastructure Networking - WAN, Firewalls, VPN Gateways
  • Administration of Azure and other cloud providers - Desirable
  • Application Networking (WAF, and Load Balancers). - Desirable
  • Terraform, ARM, Bicep, Packer or other IaC tools. - Desirable
  • Atlassian products, specifically Jira and Confluence. - Desirable

• Qualifications and Experience
  • Experience administering enterprise grade system infrastructure
  • Microsoft / Azure certifications - Desirable
  • Experience with migrating business systems from on-premises networks, data centers, and between cloud providers. - Desirable
  • Other IT, cloud, security, and similar certifications. - Desirable

• Behavior and Personality
  • Willing and able to continually learn and improve.
    
  • High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
  • Sees work through to completion.
  • Effectively communicates verbally and in writing.
  • Willing to work with remote teams across time zones.
  • Keeps information confidential and secure.
  • Willing and able to work outside normal hours in emergency situations.
  • Willing and able to travel to remote offices and data centers occasionally. - Desirable

Must be available to work 3-4 days a week in Okotoks's office and drive to Lethbridge once a month

Join us
Collectively, our talented team and integrated solutions uniquely position us to transform collaboration within the industry at a global level, empowering and connecting producers to consumers for a more efficient, sustainable future.

Everyone belongs at TELUS Agriculture. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you do or how you do it, at TELUS Agriculture, your unique contribution and talents will be valued and respected. Because the more diverse perspectives we have the more likely we are to crack the code on what our customers want and our communities need.

Do you share our passion for enabling remarkable human outcomes?

Together, let’s make the future friendly.

Accessibility

TELUS Agriculture is proud to foster an inclusive culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to fair employment practices and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.

We offer accommodation for applicants with disabilities, as required, during the recruitment process.

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