Middleware File Transfer Admin

Partenaire technologique des grandes entreprises depuis 1979, le Groupe SII est au cœur de l'économie de l'innovation avec 16 000 collaborateurs, une présence internationale dans 20 pays, et un chiffre d’affaires supérieur à 1.621 milliards de dollars canadiens. 

SII Canada offre à ses clients une expertise technique avancée dans les domaines du développement applicatif, Web et Mobile, de la Cybersécurité et du Cloud. Nous intervenons également en Ingénierie, particulièrement sur les systèmes embarqués dans divers secteurs industriels. Notre ambition : faire évoluer les systèmes d’information et contribuer à la création des produits et services de demain pour nos clients.

En tant qu’entreprise de consultation en TI basée au Québec, SII Canada opère dans un environnement mondial où l’anglais est essentiel. Cette offre d’emploi est publiée en anglais pour souligner l’importance de cette langue dans nos opérations quotidiennes. Nous restons dédiés à la promotion et au respect de la langue française au sein de notre entreprise.

About the job:

GTS’ mission is to provide the group’s business divisions with secured infrastructures. This includes, but is not limited to, hosting business applications, offering cloud solutions, and managing connectivity and digital workplace requests, all while contributing to the group’s digital transformation efforts.

What are you applying to?

The vision within the Global Technologies Services team is to provide leading-edge cost-effective technology services and support based on an infrastructure that is shared by the SG companies, requiring adherence to common standards, policies, and security settings. The teams are globally aligned to leverage best practices, standards, and procedures on a worldwide basis. The Middleware group is part of global team providing support activities globally. The middleware administrator in Montreal will work closely with other middleware administrator based in Montreal, US and Paris to manage middleware located in Canada and US and also participate in on-call shift rotation providing support to worldwide systems.

What will be your day-to-day?

The Filetransfer administrator’s responsibilities include but not limited to the following:

Main supported technologies:

• IBM Sterling suite (Connect Enterprise, Connect Express, Connect Direct, Sterling File Gateway, Sterling Secure Proxy, etc.)
• Axway CFT is a plus.
• Main supported protocols:
• FTP, SFTP
• PeSIT
• Connect:Direct (C:D)
• FTP/SSL
• Provide off-hour and weekend production on-call support and be able to handle on-call alerts
• Provide on-call support as part of Follow-the-sun support to Paris and Asia systems
• Provide advice, best practices to the team’s client (internal, GTS, ITEC …)
• Help implement and update the team standard (installation, best practices, etc …)
• Contribute to API factory for provisioning and automation of the File transfer platform.
• To be process-oriented and be able to implement a common set of standards, methods and procedures used for all file transfer work, as well as be able to recommend software and hardware upgrade paths

Profile:

• Client focused, able to work independently while interacting across different teams to 
• accomplish projects and must be detail oriented.
• Be willing to learn new technologies and methodologies.
• Self-motivated and a team player.
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, both written and oral.
• Experience working in a 24X7 environment.
• Experience working with distributed teams.
• Experience of operational management.
• French and English language skills (written and/or oral).

Desired/Plus:

• Familiarity with ITIL process

Required/must have:

• Knowledge of file transfer technologies (key exchange, basic networking, …)
• Strong knowledge on operating systems (Linux / Unix / Windows)
• Skill in scripting (Shell, Python...)