Enterprise Data Centre Specialist - Edmonton, Canada - Edmonton Catholic Schools

Edmonton Catholic Schools

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Edmonton, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Description

Edmonton Catholic Schools is a large urban school division whose mission is to provide a Catholic education that inspires students to learn and that prepares them to live fully and to serve God in one another.

The Division is comprised of over 44,000 students and 5,000 employees in 95 schools plus other sites.

Enterprise Data Centre Specialist:

Requisition ID: 7095
Hours Per Week: 35
Position: New
FTE: 1
Department: Infrastructure Services
No Months Per Year: 12
Position Status: Permanent
Employee Group: OOS
Rate of Pay: $82,424 - $103,045
Posting Closing Date: 5/22/23We are seeking an Enterprise Data Centre Specialist to join our team and provide technical expertise and leadership to our organization. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to work closely with stakeholders to identify business needs and develop technical solutions that support our mission-critical enterprise client/server Data Centre environment.

As an Enterprise Data Centre Specialist, your team plays a vital role in maintaining and securing our datacenter compute infrastructure that provides services for our administrators, teachers, students, and parents.

As a member of our team, we are continuously seeking opportunities to enhance our processes and services through the innovative use of information technology.

We understand the importance of work-life balance and prioritize it by implementing highly available and redundant systems.

This approach enables us to conduct regular maintenance and upgrades during business hours, ensuring a healthy balance between work and personal time.

If you're passionate about technology and have a proven track record of success in a complex environment, we want to hear from you.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Work with stakeholders to identify, recommend and ultimately design and implement technical solutions in support of Division initiatives.
Provide technical leadership in areas of expertise while participating on project teams to design and implement solutions that deliver solutions to address identified needs.
Develop and implement disaster recovery plans for all mission critical systems and data, documenting instructions and procedures to ensure rapid reliable recovery in the event of a system failure.
Provide technical leadership and assist in training less experienced staff, prepare written instructions to aid staff in the understanding.
Seek opportunities to improve processes, products, and services by identifying opportunities where information technology may assist in the resolution.
Resolve complex high priority escalated problems by interfacing with staff, clients and/or vendors to diagnose and correct computer hardware/software related problems.
Manage the enterprise data centre environment for the purpose of maintaining capacity planning, patch management and remote administration.
Provide support to administrative and educational environments by writing scripts to automate task and develop, plan for, and implement solutions where none currently exist.
Upgrade, tune and troubleshoot problems related to all systems located in the Division's data centre.
Monitor the Division's enterprise information systems to identify potential problems or bottlenecks.
Design and implement solutions to eliminate bottlenecks while developing long range capacity plans.
Manage access and security focusing on protecting private or confidential data from unauthorized access and protecting the privacy of individuals.
Provide coverage for the Senior Enterprise Data Centre Specialist during absences.
Maintain technical knowledge through a range of professional development activities.

QUALIFICATIONS

Postsecondary degree or diploma in computer systems or equivalent experience, seven years of directly related experience working with a range of disciplines and programs
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Knowledge of troubleshooting all issues of the Data Centre including Active Directory problems including DNS, TCPIP routing and Authentication.
Indepth knowledge of Hyper-V design and configuration
Awareness of security threats and vulnerabilities.
Indepth working knowledge of Microsoft's active directory (AD)
Knowledge of enterprise services such as, SQL Server, IIS, DNS, ILM, ISA and VB Scripting/Powershell
Knowledge of troubleshooting principles and techniques
Knowledge of safe workplaces and awareness of Occupational Health and Safety regulations and legislation
Knowledge of project management principles with directly related experience managing projects.
Understanding of Division and department business, operations, programs, goals and objectives
Strong time management skills with the ability to work with multiple tasks simultaneously
Excellent oral and written communication skills and strong technical writing skills
Strong analytical and conceptual skills with the ability to create original concepts/theories and