System Network Administrator

  • St. Albert
  • Global Traffic Group

Global Traffic Group is seeking a System Network Administrator to join our expanding team. This role will be responsible for the technical architecture, stability, security and maintenance of computer hardware and network infrastructure. This is a small-team environment, with an opportunity to play an important role in the progression of the technical strategy and supporting architecture.

Responsibilities :

  • Plan, design and implement network infrastructure including the management of switches, firewalls, VPN, and domain controller.
  • Install, support and maintain both physical and virtual network servers, middleware and software.
  • Manage and support all servers and workstations, including software installation, upgrades, patch management, and troubleshooting.
  • Ensure system and network infrastructure are meeting acceptable performance, security and stability levels for both current and anticipated loads through proper capacity planning.
  • Provide technical support to local and remote users for any IT infrastructure and/or software issues.
  • Implement policies, procedures, and technologies to ensure system security through secure system access, monitoring, control, and routine security evaluations.
  • Develop plans for high availability and disaster recovery, and test procedures to ensure system recovery from outages or errors.
  • Maintain detailed documentation of IT infrastructure and Network topologies.
  • Participate in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation with the infrastructure.

Skills/Experience:

  • 3-5 years experience managing network infrastructure in a multi-office and multi-data center environment.
  • Experience with VMware ESXi with both standalone as well as HA clusters.
  • Strong technical experience of core Microsoft technologies including Windows Servers, Active Directory,
  • Group Policies, MS SQL, IIS, and NTFS, as well as FTP, and DNS.
  • Experience in the design, installation, maintenance of core network technologies like TCP/IP protocols,
  • LAN/WAN, subnets, routers, switches, firewalls, DHCP, VLAN's, and VPN.
  • Experience with large capacity network storage solutions such as a SAN.
  • Experience with Microsoft Office 365.
  • Direct prior experience implementing and supporting networked servers and workstations in a Windows environment.
  • Advanced understanding of high availability infrastructure concept and implementation.
  • Experience with implementing enterprise data backup strategies and system/patch management deployments.
  • Knowledge of network monitoring tools and the ability to review logs and make recommendations.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office products.
  • Must have solid technical, analytical, problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, and the ability to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical users / stakeholders.
  • Must be able to efficiently handle multiple tasks and projects simultaneously, effectively prioritize customer issues and needs while remaining detail-oriented in a fast-paced setting and adapting to changing priorities.
  • Highly motivated and passionate about delivering high quality work.