Working out of our Thornhill Head Office location, this role supports the
Information Technology department and reports to the Director of Technical
Services.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
* Providing Team members with appropriate professional development
opportunities, consistent direction and clear reporting structure.
* Designing and implementing short- and long-term strategic plans to make
certain network and telecom capacity meets existing and future requirements.
* Develop, implement, and maintain policies and procedures for network resource
and telecommunications administration and their appropriate uses.
* Develop and deploy methodologies for testing network and telecom systems
performance and providing statistics and reports.
* Practice network asset management, including maintenance of network component
inventory and related documentation.
* Work with Director, Technical Services to prepare the Network and
Telecommunications budget.
* Conduct research and make recommendations on network and telecommunications
products, their services, protocols, and standards in support of network
procurement and development efforts.
* Manage and ensure optimal operation of all network and telecom hardware and
equipment, including routers, switches, hubs, PBX's, BCMs, extenders and so on.
* Establish and maintain regular written and in-person communications with IT
Leadership regarding pertinent network activities.
* Ensure that the Business Recovery systems are maintained in a constant state
of readiness.
* Negotiate contracts with vendors.
Job Requirements: The successful candidate for this position will have a minimum of a Bachelor
of Science, Computer Studies, related degree/experience and/or CISSP
certification.
* 5 years experience managing and configuring enterprise-wide LANs, WANs,
WLANs, VPNs.
* Network certifications (eg. CCNA, CCIE) and/or IT Security certifications are
assets.
* We are also looking for someone with experience with:
Ethernet, switching, Routing (OSPF) & TCP/IP, spanning three, VLAN's,
802.1x, Wireless, WiMax, switches, routers (Cisco platform), Firewalls (Cisco
and Checkpoint.
* Experience on design high profile Web based services, load balancing,
caching, BGP.
* Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
