Senior Network Specialist, Datacenter Services

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Core Accountabilities:

• Manage the day-to-day activities of the 24x7x365 on premise and cloud datacenter infrastructure
• Technical leadership and oversight that provide identification, correlation and automated recovery of events and incidents
• Provide technical direction in all aspects of network management from network design through implementation, maintenance and upgrading of existing networks
• Maintain systems integrity, compliance, and security through controls on High Availability, Capacity, Patching, and Vulnerability Management Network/System Track performance of the datacenter
• Manage Network Infrastructure team resourcing, planning, scheduling, and prioritizing efforts to meet overall network infrastructure commitments
• Manage routine changes, provision services, deployments, fault isolation, service recovery, and incident analysis
• Responsible for up time, monitoring, reliability, BCP/DR, stability and maintenance of supported systems as well as continual assessment of the quality and effectiveness of our network monitoring and alarming
• Provide expertise related to enterprise server, datacenter, and cloud environments
• Review network characteristics and recommend procurement of, and/or modifications to network components System
• Key person for major incidents, take ownership of problems to resolution Improve efficiency through automation, based upon analyzing and identifying opportunities where automation can tackle administration tasks, volume, systemic or critical operational issues

Minimum Qualification and Skills required:

• Minimum 8 years experience working in a technology leadership role
• Bachelor's degree in IT or equivalent
• Experience with public cloud infrastructure and Virtual Private Cloud
• Extensive experience leading infrastructure delivery teams inclusive of scope, scheduling, budgeting, and project planning in an environment with aggressive delivery goals
• Minimum of 11+ years working as a network engineer and supporting many of the following services and technologies: backbone networks, computer networks, disaster recovery enterprise network environments with high working level knowledge of Data Center Network Routing & Switching, Firewall, and Load balancing technologies
• CCIE, MS AZ Network, Palo Alto certification (PSCNSA, PCNSE) would be a great asset
• Minimum of 10 years' hands-on technical experience building and supporting many of the following services and technologies: data center facilities management, experience supporting enterprise Server environment escalations, knowledge in backup, restore, and disaster recovery technologies and data center best practices Large-scale storage area networks (SAN) Data center provisioning, disaster recovery
• Flexible to travel to various sites within BC