Lab Administrator/Coordinator Jobs

Role: Lab Administrator/Coordinator

Duration: 6 months

Location: Kanata, Ontario

Description

Successful candidate in the lab admin/coordinator position with Cisco will be responsible for maintaining and expanding our 400+ device lab.

This will include:

Hands on troubleshooting of devices to maintain functional status

Re-configuration of functional equipment to work in the new automation environment.

Hands on troubleshooting and configuration of Cisco Switches and Routers.

Lastly, installation of ESXi VM and Linux on bare metal servers.

Responsibilities:

- Troubleshooting various routing/switching/generic lab equipment.

- Opening/tracking cases for the lab team to expand infra system

- Work with lab team installing new equipment

- Update/recovery of ESXi VM and baremetal Linux servers.

- Tools/Software - Assist with the development and upkeep of automated tooling that keeps the lab environment running. This will be dependent on the level of scripting skills.

- Lab Equipment Analysis and Recovery - Working with engineering team to identify and resolve issues with lab equipment (primarily Cisco routers/switches, PDU and console servers).

- Work with a Linux environment, experience with scripting languages would be beneficial (bash, perl, tcl, python)

- Re-deploying valid VMs, installing new instances and deleting obsolete VMs

Top Skills Details:

1) Troubleshoot and configure switches and routers (preferably Cisco switches & routers)

2) Lab experience coordinating lab equipment / intra-lab moves

3) Linux OS experience, especially installation

Additional Skills & Qualifications

- Certifications CCNA/CCDP etc

- ESXi