Infrastructure Specialists

Job Title: Infrastructure Specialists – 6 positions available

Location: Barrie, ON (with some travel to GTA locations, Markham, and Hwy 27 and Hwy 401)
Contract: Initial Term: 12 Months (with up to two 6 month renewals)

Time Required: 40 hours/week

Hours: Monday to Friday: 8:30AM – 4:30PM with overtime: as required

Candidates must hold a valid Driver’s License and have a reliable, insured vehicle

Other: Pass a criminal security check

Starts: May 30, 2011
Submission deadline:

Overview:

The Infrastructure Specialist to work with team members to understand business needs and design information technology systems within documented architectural framework. The position entails assessing, designing and documenting the information technology systems, products and related services that fulfill the business needs. The position will also work with the receiving sustainment organization to ensure appropriate knowledge transfer.

The role is responsible for attending project meetings to understand business requirements and work with team members to design those requirements into information systems within existing architectural frameworks. Interface with senior team members to develop, document and extend infrastructure service model across the infrastructure. This infrastructure is extensive (800 or more Windows servers; virtual and physical) and supports systems that are required to operate 24 hours a day in a highly secure environment.

Skills and Experience Required:

The successful candidate will have experience in the following areas:

-Excellent communications & interpersonal skills
-6+ years of relevant experience in virtualization design and implementation

-Experience with Security Status Monitoring products an asset.

-Experience with HP Blade (c7000), DL380/580, Windows 2003, 2008, XP, 7

-Experience working in a 7x24x365 highly secure environment

-Experience working in a high availability environment

-Relevant infrastructure experience in aligning business objectives, business capabilities, technical capabilities and physical infrastructure

-Knowledge of networking as it relates to server connectivity and port requirements for purposes of troubleshooting connectivity

-Demonstrated experience in understanding and managing OS and hardware life-cycle

-Strong organizational and communication skills

-Strategic business thinking - ability to apply technical knowledge and experience to make proposals for achieving business objectives

-Ability to work in a multi-team environment and drive completion of deliverables

-Ability to assess enterprise risk with proper recommendation on mitigation

-Proven ability to meet deadlines and manage priorities

-Ability to work/liaise effectively with business, IT stakeholders, and vendor representatives

-Proven ability to create design and implementation documentation.

-Relevant experience in utility sector (preferred)

Technology Skills Required:

Component	Product / Technology
Operating System	Windows XP / Windows 7
	Windows 2003/2008 server –Std and Ent
	Active directory, and all server services
Hardware	HP Blade c7000, BL680, BL460. HP DL380
	ESX, ESXi, VSphere
Terminal Services	Citrix, VMware
Applications	MS Office, Visio
Industry	Awareness of NERC CIP reliability standards