Infrastructure Analyst

Are you looking for a role that will challenge you to support and advance critical technology infrastructure? Can you see yourself designing, maintaining, and optimizing enterprise server, storage, and cloud environments that enable scientific, analytical, and business operations? Does the idea of working with leading-edge infrastructure technologies while keeping security at the forefront of every solution excite you? If you answered yes, this may be the job for you as our Chalk River location is looking for an Infrastructure Analyst to provide expert support for server, storage, and cloud computing environments, deliver technical leadership on infrastructure initiatives, and help shape the future of CNL’s technology landscape.

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• Designing the overall architecture and providing ongoing support for CNL’s on-premise server infrastructure and cloud-based computing infrastructure, email and messaging tools, deploying and providing operational support for application and database servers, and implementing backup and recovery technologies and procedures, while supporting server virtualization technologies and processes.
• Gathering and documenting user requirements on single business processes and translating those needs into functional designs as part of a project team.
• Acting as a Technical Lead on medium-complexity projects (e.g., researching and implementing new infrastructure technologies).
• Creatively defining and designing IT infrastructure solutions to address technical and business needs.
• Developing a high degree of expertise with one or more critical IT infrastructure components.
• Expanding on existing solution templates or developing new paradigms and innovative solutions.
• Designing and/or specifying generalized solutions, ranging from architectural redesigns of existing systems to the adoption of new technologies (e.g., virtualization).
• Developing and acting on technology implementation plans aligned to defined strategies.
• Analyzing and designing technical computing processes and systems, including an understanding of software build processes and compiler variations.
• Specifying next-generation server, storage, cloud, and/or technical computing hardware and software components, including Operating Systems, monitoring, and management tools.
• Provisions server hardware selection and testing.
• Implementing and integrating commercial software purchases to support the server, storage, and technical computing infrastructure.
• Defining specifications of server, storage, and technical computing hardware and associated software.
• Monitoring, diagnosing, and resolving complex issues across on-premises server and cloud-based computing infrastructure, backup, network, and computer systems.
• Conducting capacity assessments of existing on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure to ensure that it can support future growth.
• Providing technical support for cloud-based applications and operating systems used in the Data Center.
• Creating and providing detailed, accurate documentation of architecture and infrastructure layout and functionality.
• Other duties as assigned by your manager.

• Education
  • Graduation from a recognized institute of advanced technology in a field relevant to the position or equivalent formal education. Or;
  • Secondary School Honour Graduation or additional education and training.
• Experience
  • Possesses more than fifteen (15) years of relevant, progressive experience as an IT Infrastructure Analyst or similar role, gaining design expertise in IT Infrastructure technologies.
  • Experience with PKI Certificate Management, TCP/IP, SMTP, SFTP, Active Directory, IIS, ASP, HTML, Windows, Power Shell, other Unix-based scripting languages, and DNS services.
• Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
  • Demonstrated expert-level skills in system administration, technology-specific toolsets, and troubleshooting.
  • Demonstrated reason and problem-solving skills to provide technical and troubleshooting services to end users in operation/use of computer hardware and software.
  • Advanced analytical, interpretive, reasoning, and problem-solving skills to assess, identify, and coordinate/manage problems…