Westjet Jobs – System Administrator

Job Description:

This position is eligible for remote work, within Canada, under our mobile workforce program.

As WestJet becomes more complex and dynamic, we are seeking a System Administrator – Analytics Platforms reporting into our Sr. Manager of Business Intelligence and Analytics. This individual exhibits a high standard of excellence, enjoys challenges, and is results-driven. The incumbent must be highly motivated and demonstrate the ability to work in an agile environment.

As a System Administrator – Analytics Platforms, you will create and maintain the delivery of products/services to support Data & BI and various business units across the organization. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, deploying, and supporting Infrastructure-as-a-Code to deliver efficient solutions. This position requires an energetic self-starter with a strong work ethic, willingness to learn and someone that thrives in a modern team culture. If you tend to challenge the status quo and strive to be innovative, this is the role for you.

Job Responsibilities:

• Support the suite of business intelligence, data development and data platform tools used by the Data & BI team.
• Assess and implement new technology into sustainable infrastructure environments that meets best practices and aligns with Westjet strategies.
• Identifies areas for improvement by providing recommendations for more efficient DataOps processes
• Participation in an on-call support rotation for critical data and analytics applications
• Keep systems compliant by preventative maintenance and forward planning
• Use Splunk and other monitoring tools to be proactive in issue identification and response
• Promptly assess, triage, and respond to issues escalated from other support areas
• Possess knowledge about emerging technologies and determine how our applications/processes can benefit from them
• Mentor and guide junior team members
• Automate and document troubleshooting and operational tasks
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines to automate the delivery of our services
• Work and provide guidance to vendors and managed services providers
• Test developed components including ensuring conformance to security requirements.
• Configure BI tools on both back-end and front-end; develop the semantic and metadata layers.
• Provide support to other team members and business power users.

Job Requirements:

• College diploma or university degree in the field of Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Systems (or equivalent operational work-related experience)
• 5+ years of experience in a similar role or application support role
• Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure/delivery, high availability, high performance, multi-datacenter infrastructure and hybrid cloud environments
• Experience with continuous integration, testing and deployment
• Experience with ETL and data warehouse automation tools
• Experience working in very large data warehouse environments
• Experience with Azure and/or AWS analytic cloud solutions.
• Experience delivering custom solutions using the Scrum delivery methodology
• Strong understanding of basic networking, load balancing, HTTP and application servers such as Tomcat, Apache
• Expert knowledge of Windows Server systems, Unix/Linux OS, SQL and Oracle databases
• Strong scripting skills – deployment automation and configuration management experience with tools like Ansible and Terraform
• Excellent oral and written communication skills including the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A work ethic based on a strong desire to exceed expectations.
• Proven ability to meet tight deadlines, multi-task, and prioritize workload.
• Experience in administration role of Power BI, Tabelau, Alteryx, Semarchy and Splunk
• Experience with WhereScape, Azure Data technologies, and Snowflake
• Expertise with Microsoft BI toolset including: SSIS & SSAS
• Expert in writing and tuning SQL scripts
• Working knowledge of StreamSets or other similar data integration tools

Job Details:

Company: WestJet

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Hamilton, Ontario, CA

Application Deadline: N/A

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