Technical Support Specialist

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Hours of Work: 7.5 hours per day - 5 day week (M-F)

Work Arrangement:
Resident

Salary Range: $39.78 - $42.98 Hourly

Location:

North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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We are hiring a Technical Support Specialist for a Temporary Fulltime opportunity.
The IS Technology Operations Centre (TOC) team provides 24/7 support and strives to reduce both the impact and duration of outages of ICBC systems through effective alerting and monitoring; timely, clear and concise communication, and consistent incident handling.
As a Technical Support Specialist within the TOC team, you will provide support for ICBC’s computing platforms. This includes monitoring system queues; responding to system capacity or performance issues; ensuring systems, databases, and transactions are available as per Service Level Agreements.

Your key deliverables:

• Responding, investigating, troubleshooting, escalating, and/or resolving system alerts.
• Coordination of high-priority incidents, incident logging and escalation.
• Working in conjunction with other ISD teams to provide support, maintenance & task execution for Infrastructure systems and applications (Servers, Citrix, Nutanix, Network, Storage, Desktops, ICBC core applications, batch jobs) Stopping/starting queues; restarting services and applying patches, updates and fixes; applying regular security patches; and software enhancements.
• Execution of ad-hoc IT Service requests via the JIRA request system. (server snapshots, Control-M job handling, data change)
• Performing daily health checks, ad hoc health checks & production verification testing (PVT)
• IT Service Desk outside of core business hours for our internal customers.
• Experience utilizing privileged access to support servers, troubleshooting system alerts, executing IT service requests, and viewing administrative settings.
• Experience with Infrastructure monitoring tools such as Splunk, AKIPS, Nagios, SCOM and Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools.
• Knowledge of ITSM best practices such as ITIL, incident, problem and change management, and service operations Management.
• Self-motivated # able to learn new technologies quickly.
• Strong support documentation skills, cross-training & knowledge transfer You will have experience supporting Enterprise systems for mid to large-sized IT Infrastructure systems. Your experience is supported by post-secondary education in a computer-related field, and a passion for getting to the root and resolving technical problems.

The hours of operation are twenty-four hours per day, Sunday to Saturday. Employees work a 9-hour workday and rotate through three shifts:
Day: 7:00 to 16:00
Afternoon: 14:00 to 23:00
Night: 22:30 to 07:30
Employees will generally be scheduled to work the following pattern: four-day shifts followed by three days off, then four night shifts followed by four days off and then four afternoon…