Network Analyst - Contract

About Compugen
Compugen is one of Canada's largest privately-owned Information Technology (IT) Solution Providers. We help customers design, acquire, integrate and operate technology. Our mission is to help organizations realize new possibilities. Every day, our dedicated staff across North America focus on providing extraordinary customer service and support experiences to private and public sector organizations. We combine breadth of skill, depth of expertise, and commitment to operational excellence at scale to deliver exceptional, customer-focused experiences.
If you are driven to make a difference, relentlessly curious and collaborative at the core, we’d love to talk to you. Join us and help us make a difference.
Compugen is seeking a Senior Network analyst for 1 year contract working in Edmonton.
Responsibilities:

• Review and provide guidance on improving network infrastructure security.
• Update the IT team with networking projects, new/ongoing issues, and networking related IT trends at weekly team meetings.
• On-call support scheduled and shared with other members of the IT team.
• Other duties as required.
• Ensure all network maintenance agreements and licenses are current.
• Document all networks and network devices with standard tools including Visio.
• Support and manage the Cisco UC phone system; we are planning to move to Teams voice.
• Monitor network lan/wan/internet performance and usage.
• Occasional travel to variou sites across the country for network implementations or other onsite work.
• Plan and schedule required updates (after hours) to network and phone systems.
• Support and manage the lan, wan, and wireless networks including Cisco switches, routers, Checkpoint & Cisco ASA firewalls, Ruckus WAPs, site to site dmVPNs, and Checkpoint/Cisco secure VPN access with MFA.

Qualifications:

• Familiar with Solarwinds NCM for configuration backup/auditing and other network tools (eg OpManager, Scrutinzer netflow, syslog).
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, able to work independently.
• (nice-to-have) Ruckus WAPs and point-to-point backhauls.
• Experience working with managed network providers (Telus, NWTel, SaskTel, Rogers, Bell/MTS).
• (nice-to-have) AWS or Microsoft Azure networking.
• (must-have) Intermediate to advanced Cisco experience in an enterprise environment with switching and routing.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a similar role/environment with related industry certs (eg CCNP).
• Exceptional communication and customer service skills.
• Experience with Checkpoint firewalls and the Smart-1 cloud; we are currently moving all offices from Cisco ASA to Checkpoint.
• (must-have) Hands-on in a multi-office environment with remote data centres and Cisco dmvpn with failover routing.

The idyllis person will have enough basic data center experience to help us build out a co-location rack with Internet, L2 ethernet, and Cisco switching/routing. We are using NetApp storage and likely Dell servers with VMWare.
Consistent with our commitments to equity and diversity, we actively recruit women, visible minorities, aboriginal people and persons with disabilities. We also provide employment accommodation upon request to current employees and to applicants during the recruitment process. We comply with human rights codes in all jurisdictions where we operate and aim to provide a work environment where excellence is allowed to flourish and diversity is prized. Compugen is committed to providing accommodation throughout the interview and employment process. If you require an accommodation, the hiring manager and the human resources contact will work with you to meet your needs.