Network Specialist 1 - Mississauga, Canada - Symcor Inc.

Symcor Inc.

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Mississauga, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

About Symcor

Symcor enables secure data exchanges and supporting business processes, to help clients succeed in an evolving digital world.

Trusted by Canada's largest institutions for over 25 years to support their digital transformations, Symcor aligns industry participants to solve common challenges in the most effective and efficient way.

The Opportunity

Maintains the hardware and software of the enterprise LAN and WAN and monitoring systems.

Executes network changes and provides tier 2 and tier 3 support for users for network incidents to ensure availability and reliability of the network and business continuity.

Maintains and updates documentation to ensure ease of retrieval of historical information and that all information is current.

About The Role:

Resolve issues and challenges related to network incidents, including hardware and software of the enterprise LAN and WAN to ensure issues are resolved in accordance with incident management processes and guidelines. Assist other team members in the resolution of network incidents by providing expertise and guidance as required. Perform enterprise wide changes and maintain documentation as required.
Review and resolve network incidents reported by users, and those reported by monitoring systems, follow up and update incident records as required.
Communicate updates for incidents to help desk.
Install and upgrade network hardware and software.
Maintain network security posture.
Keep up to date network monitoring systems.
Maintain documentation.
Review current utilization to ensure network connections and equipment have enough capacity.
Participate in internal and external projects and provide support to senior team members for implementing lower level technical requirements and ensure all dependencies are delivered on time.
Execute and validate network changes as required, translating requirements into network configurations to support project activities executed by other project teams, and ensuring business, project and change management requirements are met. Validate changes by coordinating testing.
Review and analyze change requirements.
Translate requirements into network configurations.

What You Need to Succeed:

Education:

University Degree in Computer Science or Engineering
CCNP or CCIE certification

Experience:

3+ years related work experience in networking and computer.
Strong experience with switches and routers (configuration, installation and troubleshooting to the component level).
Strong experience in corporate and Internet network connectivity using switching, routing, encryption, wireless technologies.
Experience implementing and operating network monitoring and management products.
Experience with private and public clouds is desirable (Azure, Amazon Web Services, VMWare)
Experience with scripting and automation for network configuration and monitoring is desirable (Python, Ansible, etc).

Skills:

Strong knowledge of networking technology, both at the architecture and technical levels as related to LAN and WAN environments, Voice over IP, mainframes, server virtualization.
Strong knowledge of firewalls, 802.1x, VPN, IDS.
Strong using web based services with load balancing (F5 and Citrix Netscaler).
Strong troubleshooting skills. Demonstrated proficiency in the use of network diagnostic tools for isolating and solving network problems.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills

What's In It For You

At Symcor, we define our success by what we help others achieve. We were created to support our clients and, through our products, services, and solutions, protect and strengthen their brands.

We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

A comprehensive Total Rewards Program that includes a competitive compensation package, flexible benefits and time away options, retirement and savings plans and a commitment to your overall health and wellbeing through our myWellbeing program.
Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities.
Ability to make a difference and lasting impact.
Opportunities to do challenging work and progressively take on greater accountabilities for growth.
We foster an inclusive atmosphere of One Symcor with our philosophy of +1 Unique You, we harness each employee's uniqueness, different skills, backgrounds, and perspectives to contribute to mutual success. It is the diversity of our people and the inclusive environment that has been and will always be key to Symcor's success.