Storage Administrator

Montreal, Canada - Office-based

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Job Description

As a Storage Administrator at Ubisoft Montréal, in Saint-Laurent, you will help maintain our global file-sharing services and data-archiving storage platforms. You’ll work with a four-person team based in Germany, China, and France, collaborating primarily online across time zones. This is a full-time role.

What you will do

• Maintain the stability, availability, and performance of global file-sharing services
• Respond to major incidents, coordinate troubleshooting, and help restore services within agreed timelines
• Handle user requests involving shared storage, quotas, access permissions, data migrations, and service issues
• Monitor service health and capacity and maintain storage infrastructure and hardware
• Contribute to the design, implementation, and improvement of storage solutions
• Develop and maintain automation for recurring operational tasks and standard processes

Qualifications

• What you bring to the team

• Apply practical storage operations experience to production support, troubleshooting, and service reliability

• Collaborate across teams and time zones while organizing your work effectively

• Automate tasks using Python, Ansible, Git, PowerShell, shell scripting, and Terraform

• Administer enterprise and cloud storage, with knowledge of Ceph and, ideally, hands-on experience with Isilon or Qumulo

• Configure and maintain Windows Server, including Distributed File System (DFS), and Rocky Linux

• Use your knowledge of networking, virtualization, Active Directory, Server Message Block (SMB), Network File System (NFS), backups, and archiving

• Monitor services with Prometheus and Grafana and work with storage services on Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Turn user needs and operational constraints into practical storage solutions, explain technical issues clearly, and work with infrastructure, security, cloud, and application teams

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• What to send our way

• Share your CV highlighting relevant skills and experience

• Share links to relevant automation or storage projects, if available

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