Infrastructure Management Engineer

Our client is looking for an Infrastructure Managment Engineer to assist their clients through network maintenance and support. Someone that wants to know why something works, can roll up their sleeves, dig in and come up with solutions to underlying tech issues.

Mississauga, ON

TalentMinded Inc.

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Mid Level

Overview: <p><strong>About Our Client</strong></p> <p>Our client is on a mission to simplify cloud access with Software Defined Networking (SDN) solutions. One of the most significant shifts in the industry is occurring right now. It&rsquo;s anticipated that worldwide SD-WAN revenues will exceed $6 billion by 2020.</p> <p>They go up against the big names and come out on the winning side. For over 15 years they&rsquo;ve been a competitive choice providing leading-edge products and outstanding client service to an impressive list of clients from LEGO to the LCBO; from Five Guys to Abercrombie &amp; Fitch. Their VINO SD-WAN-as-a-service is a solution proven to increase speed, reliability and performance of existing hardware, connectivity and cloud services.</p> <p><em><strong>They need an Infrastructure Management Engineer to join the team.</strong></em></p> <p>This is an opportunity to manage the end-to-end change management process for clients, proactively update tickets and create documentation for the future. It&rsquo;s a chance to use all the experience you&rsquo;ve gathered to this point and Plan, Prepare, Document and then Execute on changes. At one point you could be upgrading the OS for network and security devices and the next day creating network diagrams. Whether you are 1 of 100 at a big network company or 1 of 3 at a small startup, this opportunity will offer exciting new challenges.</p>
Responsibilities: <p><strong>What you will do:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Jump in and provide Level 2 and Level 3 support for customer requested changes and other maintenance activities.</li> <li>Understand the scope of the change, seek clarification from various stakeholders including the customer and execute on the changes.</li> <li>Look at the full picture and perform impact assessment of changes.</li> <li>Create and review change scripts.</li> <li>Performance tuning of network devices and creation of SOPs.</li> <li>Plan and perform OS upgrades of network and security devices.</li> <li>Plan and perform hardware upgrade/replacement of network and security devices.</li> <li>Create/update customer network diagrams.</li> <li>Manage all this in an existing VMware environment.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What you will do:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Jump in and provide Level 2 and Level 3 support for customer requested changes and other maintenance activities.</li> <li>Understand the scope of the change, seek clarification from various stakeholders including the customer and execute on the changes.</li> <li>Look at the full picture and perform impact assessment of changes.</li> <li>Create and review change scripts.</li> <li>Performance tuning of network devices and creation of SOPs.</li> <li>Plan and perform OS upgrades of network and security devices.</li> <li>Plan and perform hardware upgrade/replacement of network and security devices.</li> <li>Create/update customer network diagrams.</li> <li>Manage all this in an existing VMware environment.</li> </ul>
Requirements: <p><strong>So, how do we know you&nbsp;are the next Infrastructure&nbsp;Management Engineer? You have experience with the following:</strong></p> <ul> <li>CCNA/CCNP is preferred.</li> <li>VMware certification is desirable,</li> <li>Linux certification (Ubuntu/Redhat) is desirable.</li> <li>Amazon AWS management experience is a bonus.</li> <li>Experience with Linux or FreeBSD operating systems is required.</li> </ul> <p><strong>More about Our Client</strong></p> <p>Our client is&nbsp;growing, innovating and putting it all out there. A couple of things you should know is that they are actively working on:</p> <p>Refocusing. They are aggressively pursuing a position at the top of the industry. With the right people joining, leadership at the helm and products that solve networking and cloud computing problems for big businesses, the future is positive.</p> <p>They have a solid reputation. They have an impressive and growing client list. They know that in order to continue to grow and succeed they need to bring on board intelligent, team players.</p> <p>They are passionate about their culture.&nbsp;A candidate-first recruitment and onboarding experience; open-door managers; excellent benefits and career building opportunities are just some of the things they offer.</p> <p>Like what you&rsquo;ve learned about the role? Express your interest here.</p> <p>Our client welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.</p>