About the role
We’re Hiring!
Platform Administrator
Toronto, ON
FT
Hybrid
Who We Are SOCAN is a not-for-profit copyright collective dedicated to ensuring music creators and publishers receive what they have rightfully earned for the use of their work. SOCAN supports and represents nearly 200,000 songwriters, composers, and music publishers. Through licensing, global royalty collection and advocacy, we help creators to keep making the music that entertains, moves, and inspires us
OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND ANTI-RACISM
SOCAN thrives with a variety of viewpoints, identities, and backgrounds, and we are committed to anti-racism. Everyone is welcome to apply for our wide range of roles, regardless of gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, race, age, culture, sexual orientation, religious belief, or physical ability. Learn more about SOCAN’s commitment to Inclusion & Anti-Racism.
WHY WORK WITH US?
- Make a difference by supporting and collaborating with a vibrant and creative community
- Enjoy many options for workplace flexibility and work-life balance
- Get involved in the rapidly changing creative space
- Advocate for and empower the creative community
- Together, we’ll help music creators earn more income and make a living
What We Offer
- 35-hour workweek schedule (possible flexible work options i.e., 4-day work week (position based)
- Twelve paid sick days annually (including five personal days)
- Access to SOCAN’s Toronto fitness facility
- Annual Performance Incentive bonus (dependent on a personal and company performance)
- Defined contribution Pension Plan
- Comprehensive, health and dental benefits program
- Inclusive and collaborative working environment
About The Role As part of the IT Infrastructure team, this position is focused on managing SOCAN’s overall IT infrastructure comprised of best-in-class virtualization, compute, storage, network, applications, and cloud technologies. They will work closely with various technology teams and business stakeholders and be accountable for infrastructure delivery, configuration automation, monitoring of infrastructure assets and services, capacity planning, performance testing and optimization, troubleshooting and remediation.
What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities
- Deployment, maintenance, and monitoring of all infrastructure assets
- Design and implementation of new technologies to enhance SOCAN’s existing network, compute, or cloud infrastructure
- Establishing and implementing secure configurations for Infrastructure applications, servers, network devices, cloud services using industry benchmarks such as CIS
- Continuous vulnerability assessment and remediation using a variety of tools and benchmarks
- Capacity planning and performance monitoring
- Configuration management, deployment, and application of security best practices within SOCAN’s cloud infrastructure hosted in Microsoft Azure
- Data protection and recovery
- Incident response and change management
- Incident response and resolution
- Request fulfillment and change management
- Maintenance, monitoring, and analysis of logs
- Work with other SOCAN groups and project stakeholders for the planning and execution of corporate and departmental projects and initiatives
SOCAN Components Primarily Include
- Virtualization
- VMWare vSphere 8.x
- VMWare NSX-T
- Tanzu
- Systems Support (Windows and Linux operating systems)
- Cloud Infrastructure (Azure IAAS and PAAS components)
- Application support, including but not limited to
- Microsoft Active Directory
- PKI
- Scripting, Development and Automation
- PowerShell, Python, bash
- Terraform, Ansible
- AWX
- Kubernetes
- Docker
What You Will Bring / Qualifications & Experience
- Post-secondary education or an equivalent of related education and experience, or IT Certifications
- Experience working in comparable positions
- Knowledge of automating infrastructure delivery and configuration using tools such as terraform, chef, puppet, Ansible
- Knowledge of PowerShell, Python scripting
- Understanding of Kubernetes / Docker
- Understanding VMWare virtualization technologies including vSphere and NSX-T
- Understanding of security concepts, device management and security policy implementation and management
- Understanding of cloud computing technologies (Microsoft Azure/AWS), business drivers, and emerging computing trends
- Superior customer service skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skill
Accessibility & Accomodation SOCAN is committed to providing an inclusive workplace environment that meets the accessibility needs of employees with disabilities. Should you require accommodations please contact us directly at hr@socan.com and we will make the necessary accommodations. Applications submitted to this email address will not be accepted.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
SOCAN is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Hiring and other employment decisions at SOCAN are made without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, ancestry, national origin, ethnic origin, age, disability, citizenship, veteran status, sexual orientation, record of offences, marital status, family status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, or local law, regulation, or ordinance.
If you don’t see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed on the posting above, we still encourage you to reach out and apply. Research has shown underrepresented groups often only apply when they feel 100% qualified. We are committed to creating a more equitable, inclusive, and diverse company and we strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientations, and life experiences to apply
How To Apply If you’re interested in joining us, we’d love to hear from you: http://www.socan.com/careers/
Thank you for your interest in our company; we will be in touch with those candidates we wish to interview.
To learn more about SOCAN, go to www.socan.com. You can also follow us on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and Facebook (@SOCANmusic/@SOCANmusique).
About SOCAN
SOCAN is a rights management organization that links more than four million songwriters, composers and music publishers worldwide. We do this by administering licenses for the public performance and reproduction of their work. The money collected from these licenses is distributed as royalties to the music creators and publishers who have rightfully earned them in Canada and worldwide.
More than 250 employees work with SOCAN. We are a team dedicated to supporting the national and global music ecosystem through our creativity, innovation, commitment, and passion in an ever-changing music and business landscape. We support SOCAN members from offices in Toronto, Vancouver, Montréal, Nashville and Los Angeles.
We love music and believe that the songwriters, composers and music publishers provide an essential and priceless aspect of national pride and culture. This belief permeates our work and heavily influences a workplace culture of which we are immensely proud.
As we blaze trails during one of the fastest-changing times in our industry, we continue to revolutionize and modernize music monetization through state-of-the-art, innovative technology.
SOCAN is Canada’s largest member-based rights management organization. We’re always looking for innovative, industrious, and creative new team members, who share our passion and commitment.
Visit SOCAN.com to learn more about what we do.
About the role
We’re Hiring!
Platform Administrator
Toronto, ON
FT
Hybrid
Who We Are SOCAN is a not-for-profit copyright collective dedicated to ensuring music creators and publishers receive what they have rightfully earned for the use of their work. SOCAN supports and represents nearly 200,000 songwriters, composers, and music publishers. Through licensing, global royalty collection and advocacy, we help creators to keep making the music that entertains, moves, and inspires us
OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND ANTI-RACISM
SOCAN thrives with a variety of viewpoints, identities, and backgrounds, and we are committed to anti-racism. Everyone is welcome to apply for our wide range of roles, regardless of gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, race, age, culture, sexual orientation, religious belief, or physical ability. Learn more about SOCAN’s commitment to Inclusion & Anti-Racism.
WHY WORK WITH US?
- Make a difference by supporting and collaborating with a vibrant and creative community
- Enjoy many options for workplace flexibility and work-life balance
- Get involved in the rapidly changing creative space
- Advocate for and empower the creative community
- Together, we’ll help music creators earn more income and make a living
What We Offer
- 35-hour workweek schedule (possible flexible work options i.e., 4-day work week (position based)
- Twelve paid sick days annually (including five personal days)
- Access to SOCAN’s Toronto fitness facility
- Annual Performance Incentive bonus (dependent on a personal and company performance)
- Defined contribution Pension Plan
- Comprehensive, health and dental benefits program
- Inclusive and collaborative working environment
About The Role As part of the IT Infrastructure team, this position is focused on managing SOCAN’s overall IT infrastructure comprised of best-in-class virtualization, compute, storage, network, applications, and cloud technologies. They will work closely with various technology teams and business stakeholders and be accountable for infrastructure delivery, configuration automation, monitoring of infrastructure assets and services, capacity planning, performance testing and optimization, troubleshooting and remediation.
What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities
- Deployment, maintenance, and monitoring of all infrastructure assets
- Design and implementation of new technologies to enhance SOCAN’s existing network, compute, or cloud infrastructure
- Establishing and implementing secure configurations for Infrastructure applications, servers, network devices, cloud services using industry benchmarks such as CIS
- Continuous vulnerability assessment and remediation using a variety of tools and benchmarks
- Capacity planning and performance monitoring
- Configuration management, deployment, and application of security best practices within SOCAN’s cloud infrastructure hosted in Microsoft Azure
- Data protection and recovery
- Incident response and change management
- Incident response and resolution
- Request fulfillment and change management
- Maintenance, monitoring, and analysis of logs
- Work with other SOCAN groups and project stakeholders for the planning and execution of corporate and departmental projects and initiatives
SOCAN Components Primarily Include
- Virtualization
- VMWare vSphere 8.x
- VMWare NSX-T
- Tanzu
- Systems Support (Windows and Linux operating systems)
- Cloud Infrastructure (Azure IAAS and PAAS components)
- Application support, including but not limited to
- Microsoft Active Directory
- PKI
- Scripting, Development and Automation
- PowerShell, Python, bash
- Terraform, Ansible
- AWX
- Kubernetes
- Docker
What You Will Bring / Qualifications & Experience
- Post-secondary education or an equivalent of related education and experience, or IT Certifications
- Experience working in comparable positions
- Knowledge of automating infrastructure delivery and configuration using tools such as terraform, chef, puppet, Ansible
- Knowledge of PowerShell, Python scripting
- Understanding of Kubernetes / Docker
- Understanding VMWare virtualization technologies including vSphere and NSX-T
- Understanding of security concepts, device management and security policy implementation and management
- Understanding of cloud computing technologies (Microsoft Azure/AWS), business drivers, and emerging computing trends
- Superior customer service skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skill
Accessibility & Accomodation SOCAN is committed to providing an inclusive workplace environment that meets the accessibility needs of employees with disabilities. Should you require accommodations please contact us directly at hr@socan.com and we will make the necessary accommodations. Applications submitted to this email address will not be accepted.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
SOCAN is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Hiring and other employment decisions at SOCAN are made without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, ancestry, national origin, ethnic origin, age, disability, citizenship, veteran status, sexual orientation, record of offences, marital status, family status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, or local law, regulation, or ordinance.
If you don’t see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed on the posting above, we still encourage you to reach out and apply. Research has shown underrepresented groups often only apply when they feel 100% qualified. We are committed to creating a more equitable, inclusive, and diverse company and we strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientations, and life experiences to apply
How To Apply If you’re interested in joining us, we’d love to hear from you: http://www.socan.com/careers/
Thank you for your interest in our company; we will be in touch with those candidates we wish to interview.
To learn more about SOCAN, go to www.socan.com. You can also follow us on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and Facebook (@SOCANmusic/@SOCANmusique).
About SOCAN
SOCAN is a rights management organization that links more than four million songwriters, composers and music publishers worldwide. We do this by administering licenses for the public performance and reproduction of their work. The money collected from these licenses is distributed as royalties to the music creators and publishers who have rightfully earned them in Canada and worldwide.
More than 250 employees work with SOCAN. We are a team dedicated to supporting the national and global music ecosystem through our creativity, innovation, commitment, and passion in an ever-changing music and business landscape. We support SOCAN members from offices in Toronto, Vancouver, Montréal, Nashville and Los Angeles.
We love music and believe that the songwriters, composers and music publishers provide an essential and priceless aspect of national pride and culture. This belief permeates our work and heavily influences a workplace culture of which we are immensely proud.
As we blaze trails during one of the fastest-changing times in our industry, we continue to revolutionize and modernize music monetization through state-of-the-art, innovative technology.
SOCAN is Canada’s largest member-based rights management organization. We’re always looking for innovative, industrious, and creative new team members, who share our passion and commitment.
Visit SOCAN.com to learn more about what we do.