Infrastructure Support Engineer

Job Responsibility:

Are you looking to join a company who is committed to investing in technology and is one of Canada's largest mortgage lenders? Are you excited to use your technical expertise to join a technology solutions entrepreneurial start-up within a well- established national financial services organization? Join our growing team of infrastructure and software developers who truly make an impact on product and service development at Intellifi. The successful candidate will not only have technical expertise but is someone who is not satisfied with the status quo and is ready to take ownership of, or recommend new, automated methodologies, continue to build out procedures, and execute application trouble-shooting procedures.

The successful candidate is passionate about delivering a best-in-class end user experience, putting into practice not only an in-depth advanced level of end user technical support expertise but also a broad range of knowledge of networks, infrastructure, meeting room technologies, and will be responsible for supporting all of our IT infrastructure operations. This position requires strong technical expertise, self-motivation and organizational skills in order to ensure alignment with and execution of the organization's IT Roadmap goals and objectives. We currently provide support for two distinct environments: Azure and a private cloud. However, there are plans underway to migrate entirely to Azure within the next year. Therefore, proficiency in Azure and related trainings are essential.

If you are ready for a challenge, have the skills that we are looking for, enjoy working in a result-oriented environment, and want to help us re-imagine the way we work - then we want to hear from you!

Role and Responsibilities:

• Planning, implementing, and maintaining a highly-virtualized production environment, with a strong focus on Azure Infrastructure. Aid in the analysis of business needs to recommend innovative technology solutions, with an emphasis on Azure, while actively participating in firm-wide IT and business initiatives.
• Perform system upgrades in collaboration with the Enterprise technology team and external service providers as needed, particularly those involving Azure services.
• Manage capacity and performance of the platform, with a specific focus on Azure resources, ensuring the integrity of the infrastructure.
• Proactively monitor the health of critical business systems and technologies, with a specific emphasis on Azure resources.
• Participation during monthly maintenance activities, including patching, etc.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to understand business needs and develop infrastructure solutions that align with organizational goals.
• Leading infrastructure initiatives from inception to completion, including defining initiative scope, timelines, and resource requirements.
• Conducting technology assessments and providing recommendations for infrastructure improvements and enhancements.
• Maintain infrastructure standards documentation as it relates to infrastructure systems design, configuration, support, and processes, with a particular emphasis on Azure best practices to ensure consistency and compliance.
• Remain current with emerging trends in technology, particularly in the Azure ecosystem.
• Help to troubleshooting and resolving infrastructure issues, providing technical guidance and support to the operations and engineering teams.
• Help to ensuring high availability and disaster recovery capabilities are monitored and operational
• Other duties may be assigned, as required.

• Extensive experience in infrastructure operations.
• Strong understanding of cloud computing platforms, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, including infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and containerization technologies.
• Proficiency in managing virtualized environments using technologies like VMware, AKS, and Docker.
• Good working knowledge of networking, storage, and server technologies, including LAN/WAN, SD-WAN, SAN/NAS, and blade/server hardware.
• Familiarity with identity and access management (IAM) solutions and enterprise security best practices.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess complex infrastructure challenges and propose effective solutions.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams and effectively communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Ability to conduct research on a wide range of computing issues is required.
• Ability to absorb and retain information quickly.
• Ability to present ideas in user-friendly, business-friendly and technical language.
• Highly self-motivated and directed.
• Keen attention to detail.
• Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Exceptional customer service orientation.
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Willingness to learn new technical skills and best practices.
• Comfortable with change.
• Balance operational initiatives with KTLO (keep the lights on) work.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field and/or minimum 5 years' equivalent work experience.
• Relevant certifications such as Azure Fundamentals, and/or Azure Administor Associate are preferred.
• Experience with incident and change management systems
• Experience in analysis, implementation and evaluation of IT systems and their specifications
• Are experienced and knowledgeable in information technology information library (ITIL) and or COBIT methodologies
• Financial services or FinTech industry experience is considered an asset.

• Customer Focus: Identifies and meets the needs of internal and external customers, being continually focused on outcomes for customers.
• Understanding Others: Seeks to understand their individual perspectives and concerns and actively listens to check understanding.
• Adaptability: Tries new ways to do things; for example, coming up with alternative methods or ways of working.
• Approach to Thinking: Thinks through situations of varying degrees of complexity and ambiguity, identifying several likely causes or consequences of a situation.
• Attention to Detail: Manages, tracks and attends to multiple pieces of information, brings order, clarity, and ensures accuracy.
• Conceptual Thinking: Develops innovative or creative insights and procedures; specifically, sees patterns or trends; for example, spotting recurring problems.
• Information Seeking: A desire to know more and seek information to inform decisions.
• Self-Confidence: Functions independently and with confidence in challenging situations, trusting own judgment.

• Computer skills: Independently supports business processes with comprehensive understanding and effective use of standard office equipment and standard software packages, while also providing guidance and training to others.
• Data Management: Works with little supervision and provides technical guidance when required on acquiring, organizing, protecting and processing data to fulfill business objectives.
• Planning and Organizing: Works with little to no guidance to plan, organize, prioritize and oversee activities to efficiently meet business objectives.
• Policy and procedures: Works with little to no guidance to monitor, interpret and understand policies and procedures.

• Uses clear and effective verbal and written communications skills and provides technical guidance when required on expressing ideas, requesting actions and formulating plans or policies.

• Health and Wellness Spending Accounts
• Health, Drug, Vision, and Dental benefits
• Paid vacation, sick days, and personal days (in addition to civil and statutory holidays)
• RRSP Matching Program
• Maternity / Parental Leave Top Up Program
• Discounted gym memberships
• Travel assistance and EAP
• Business Casual dress code
• Company social events + sport teams
• Hybrid work arrangements
• Education reimbursement
• Training and mentoring programs
• And more!

Salary Range: $72,000 - $85,000/yr

Welcome to Intellifi, where our mission is “Lending Solutions Simplified”. This is more than tagline for us - it's our commitment to every customer, business partner and team member.

While we have decades worth of experience and expertise in Commercial Services and Technology, Residential Services, and Residential Technology, we aren't standing still. From the adventurous start ups to the established institutions with billions in assets, and to those we have yet to serve, we owe it to our dozens of clients to always be moving forward.

At Intellifi we believe that a culture of innovation, creativity and partnership is what enable us to provide executable end-to-end solutions to the various lenders in the residential and commercial industry in Canada. Where hi-tech meets hi-touch, we are a team of experts providing a selection of technology products and lending operations services that helps create efficiency in loan management for both our clients and their customers.

Intellifi is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veterans status, Aboriginal/Native American status or any other legally-protected factors. Disability-related accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process by emailing View email address on ca.edajobs.com.

If you are confident that you would be a strong asset to our team, submit both a cover letter and resume today! We thank all applicants for their time in applying, however we will only contact those selected for an interview. Consideration of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.