Senior Virtualization and Storage Administrator

Senior Virtualization and Storage Administrator

Job Category : Information Technology

Requisition Number : SENIO

• Full-Time
• Hybrid

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Building the space between proven and possible, MDA Space (TSX:MDA) is a trusted mission partner to the global space industry. A robotics, satellite systems and geointelligence pioneer with a 55-year+ story of world firsts and more than 450 missions, MDA Space is a global leader in communications satellites, Earth and space observation, and space exploration and infrastructure. The MDA Space team of more than 4,000 space experts in Canada, the US and the UK has the knowledge and know-how to turn an audacious customer vision into an achievable mission – bringing to bear a one-of-a-kind mix of experience, engineering excellence and wide-eyed wonder that’s been in our DNA since day one.

For those who dream big and push boundaries on the ground and in the stars to change the world for the better, we’ll take you there.

MDA Space is seeking a Senior Virtualization and Storage Administrator, to own and support enterprise virtualization and storage platforms across the organization. The successful candidate will design, operate, secure, monitor, and optimize SAN, NAS, Hyper‑V, Proxmox, and related infrastructure services. This role will support high availability, disaster recovery, capacity planning, platform lifecycle management, and migration initiatives, including reducing dependency on legacy virtualization platforms where appropriate.

The role requires deep hands‑on technical capability, strong troubleshooting discipline, automation skills, and the ability to collaborate with Backup, Network, Security, Linux, Windows, and Application teams.

• Design, deploy, administer, monitor, and optimize enterprise virtualization platforms including Microsoft Hyper‑V, Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere/ESXi and related management tooling.
• Support virtualization platform lifecycle activities including upgrades, patching, cluster configuration, host firmware coordination, compatibility validation, and retirement of legacy platforms.
• Plan and execute workload migrations between virtualization platforms, including VMware to Hyper‑V or Proxmox, with appropriate rollback, testing, documentation, and stakeholder communication.
• Design, implement, and administer enterprise storage platforms including SAN, NAS, DAS, block, file, and cloud‑integrated storage.
• Manage storage presentation and connectivity including LUN provisioning, zoning coordination, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, NFS, SMB, MPIO/multipathing, snapshots, replication, deduplication, and capacity allocation.
• Monitor and tune virtualization and storage performance, including host CPU/memory contention, VM latency, datastore latency, IOPS, throughput, storage queue depth, network paths, and capacity trends.
• Work closely with Backup, Network, Security, Windows, Linux, and application teams to maintain resilient infrastructure aligned to business RTO and RPO requirements.
• Develop, maintain, and test disaster recovery and business continuity runbooks for virtual workloads and storage services.
• Ensure high availability configurations are documented, tested, and aligned with business resiliency objectives.
• Perform regular system updates, patches, and security configurations.
• Create and maintain detailed documentation of the virtualization and storage infrastructure.
• Support security and compliance requirements through hardening, access control, privileged account management, patch compliance, vulnerability remediation, and audit evidence.
• Develop and implement automation scripts to improve system efficiency and reduce manual tasks.
• Conduct capacity planning and prepare recommendations for hardware refresh, platform consolidation, storage growth, lifecycle risk, and cost optimization.
• Participate in change management, project planning, vendor coordination, and after‑hours support as required.
• Serve as the senior escalation point and technical lead for virtualization and storage‑related incidents and projects.
• Mentor junior administrators and provide technical guidance for complex virtualization and…