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Systems Administrator - DevOps 1

Ontario
CA$91,677 - CA$117,242/annual
Mid Level
full_time

About the role

Date Posted: 09/12/2025

Req ID: 45170

Faculty/Division: Library

Department: Info. Technology Service

Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)

Position Number: 00058751

Description About us: The University of Toronto Libraries (UTL) system is the largest academic library in Canada and is ranked in the top five among peer institutions in North America. The system comprises 40 libraries located across three university campuses: St. George, Mississauga, and Scarborough. This diverse and extensive network of college libraries, special collections, and specialized information centres plays a pivotal role in supporting the teaching, scholarly, and research needs of nearly 100,000 students enrolled in a wide array of graduate, professional, and undergraduate programs.

The library system provides access to millions of resources in various formats, including electronic, print, audio-visual, data and geospatial materials. UTL also boasts impressive holdings of archival material and substantial digital collections, securely preserved in the libraries' data centre. The staff at UTL are integral to the academic and scholarly enterprise, working closely with faculty and students to support their teaching, learning, and research requirements. They are subject matter experts; they are skilled in research data management, collections, statistics, GIS, metadata, digital preservation, scholarly communications, copyright, teaching, knowledge synthesis, open access and much more. Our work is grounded in our commitment to support equity, diversity, and inclusion.

UTL continuously evolves to meet the changing academic priorities and pressures at the University and within the broader landscape of higher education.

Your Opportunity Working under the direction of the Director, Enterprise Technology, Cybersecurity, and Digital Workplace, and working with a team of developers and systems administrators in the Library Information Technology Services department, the incumbent will be responsible for the engineering, implementation and support of technical products and systems for a variety of ITS services. The successful applicant will collaborate on diagnosing, troubleshooting, and resolving hardware/software issues. The incumbent will also work to improve continuous integration and delivery systems, as well as CI/CD pipelines and automate routine deployment, administration, and monitoring responsibilities.

Your Responsibilities Will Include

  • Developing and programming network applications
  • Customizing open source web applications
  • Analyzing and installing networking equipment
  • Configuring system applications according to needs
  • Troubleshooting complex computer system problems
  • Creating complex and technical documentation and user support guides

Essential Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience.
  • Minimum five years recent and related experience
  • Demonstrated experience in infrastructure automation coding using scripting (Bash, Python, PowerShell or equivalent)
  • Demonstrated experience in maintaining and operating Linux based servers and web application software (Apache, Tomcat, Node.js, HAProxy)
  • Demonstrated experience in supporting SQL database environments likeOracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL
  • Proficient with one or more scripting languages such as Python.
  • Knowledge of web traffic log collection and analytics platforms (Elastic Stack)
  • In-depth knowledge of practices and tools related to DevOps, IaC and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Gitlab, Chef)
  • Working knowledge of virtualization, KVM, or equivalent. Strong knowledge of systems and networking software, hardware, and networking protocols

To Be Successful In This Role You Will Be

  • Accountable
  • Cooperative
  • Efficient
  • Multi-tasker
  • Organized
  • Responsible
  • Team player

Note

  • This is a 2 year term position.

Closing Date: 09/26/2025, 11:59PM ET

Employee Group: USW

Appointment Type : Budget - Term

Schedule Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone: USW Pay Band 14 -- $91,677. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $117,242. 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.

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Diversity Statement The University of Toronto embraces Diversity and is building a culture of belonging that increases our capacity to effectively address and serve the interests of our global community. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, Black and racialized persons, women, persons with disabilities, and people of diverse sexual and gender identities. We value applicants who have demonstrated a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion and recognize that diverse perspectives, experiences, and expertise are essential to strengthening our academic mission.

As part of your application, you will be asked to complete a brief Diversity Survey. This survey is voluntary. Any information directly related to you is confidential and cannot be accessed by search committees or human resources staff. Results will be aggregated for institutional planning purposes. For more information, please see http://uoft.me/UP.

Accessibility Statement The University strives to be an equitable and inclusive community, and proactively seeks to increase diversity among its community members. Our values regarding equity and diversity are linked with our unwavering commitment to excellence in the pursuit of our academic mission.

The University is committed to the principles of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). As such, we strive to make our recruitment, assessment and selection processes as accessible as possible and provide accommodations as required for applicants with disabilities.

If you require any accommodations at any point during the application and hiring process, please contact uoft.careers@utoronto.ca.

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