Systems Administrator - DevOps

Systems Administrator
- Dev Ops

Date Posted: 07/28/2026

Req : 49452

Faculty/Division: Library

Department: Scholars Portal

Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)

Position Number:

Existing Vacancy: Yes

Description:

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.

Scholars Portal, a department of the University of Toronto Libraries (UTL), is the digital service arm of the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL), managing infrastructure and services that support Ontario’s 21 university libraries. The Scholars Portal team of librarians, developers, and systems staff support services in four broad areas: research and member services; data and geospatial services; digital collections; and digital preservation services.

Working under the direction of the Scholars Portal Assistant Director, Systems and Technical Operations, and working with a team of developers and systems support specialists, the incumbent will be responsible for the engineering, implementation and support of technical products and systems for a variety of Scholars Portal 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.

• 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

• Bachelor's Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience.
• Minimum five years.
• Demonstrated experience in infrastructure automation coding using scripting (Bash, Python, Power Shell or equivalent).
• Strong experience in maintaining and operating Linux based servers and web application software (Apache, Tomcat, Node.js, HAProxy).
• In-depth knowledge of practices and tools related to Dev Ops, IaC and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Gitlab, Chef).
• Proficient with one or more scripting languages such as Python. Knowledge of web traffic log collection and analytics platforms (Elastic Stack).
• Working knowledge of virtualization, KVM, or equivalent. Strong knowledge of systems and networking software, hardware, and networking protocols.
• Experience in supporting Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL database environments.
• Advanced skills in creating and maintaining technical documentation
• Flexibility, initiative, and the ability to work and learn…