Company:

Astute Internet is an Internet Infrastructure services provider, offering carrier/enterprise grade Internet access, private network, and other fiber solutions. We also offer co-location, and dedicated (bare metal) server hosting. We have been growing our network infrastructure and presently have one of the most flexible networks in the Vancouver area with nearly 300Gbps of transit and peering capacity across our backbone throughout Canada and the US. We are a small team with a big network and big ambitions of becoming a leading carrier network provider in North America. At Astute we encourage personal and occupational growth, and provide opportunities for employees to learn new skillsets and adopt new or changing responsibilities within the organization.

Applicant preferences:

We're looking for someone with a professional interest in networking and the underlying infrastructure of the Internet, with the drive and desire to learn and acquire new skills in accordance with job demands. Strong systems skills are also an asset. New hires should be able to work effectively both on their own and as part of a team. In-house training will be provided as required. Preference will be given to applicants with relevant experience in networking and/or computer systems.

Full-time position

Hybrid WFH model (typically 1/2 days a week in office or data centre, agenda-dependent) after the 3 months of probationary period

Health benefits after 3 months

Salary: 60-80k/yr

Annual bonus based on performance

Mobile Phone (Corporate Plan)

Home Internet Service (up to $100/mo reimbursed)

Job description:

Primary responsibilities include:

High Level Customer Support. Customers are expected to handle any standard tasks themselves, but we serve as an easy path for escalation on more challenging issues where a high level of expertise is required.

Maintaining a wide variety of internal systems primarily on Juniper networking devices, with varying use of virtualization (VMX) and assorted networking environments (Cisco, Arista) depending on the application at hand.

New Device Deployment – racking and cabling of switches/routers as necessary, applying firmware updates, ground-up configuration of system services/routing/switching/access, etc. Some hardware assembly/upgrades will occasionally be required.

General BGP and routing optimisations corresponding with network growth/change. Facilitation of upstream changes for additional route advertisements, as well as regular peer additions on our adjacent internet exchanges (SIX, VANIX, TORIX, YYCIX).

After-hours oncall duties – on a rotation with the rest of the team for one out of every four weeks. Incidents are infrequent, but require around the clock availability by email and phone during the oncall period.

Would be good to have familiarity with:

Technologies/Protocols

TCP/IP and OSI Layer Model
IPv4/IPv6 Addressing
Single Mode Fibre

Optical Transceivers (SFP/SFP+, XFP, QSFP)
Multiplexing (CWDM/DWDM)
Multi-homed BGP Routing
Multi-site iBGP using Confederated ASNs

IP Registry (RADb, Arin)
IS-IS, OSPF
MSTP
LACP

MPLS

Platforms

Juniper Switching (EX Series)
Juniper Routing (M/MX/VMX Series)
Juniper Firewall (SRX)
Arista Switching

Cisco Switching

Systems

Linux (CentOS/Redhat and Ubuntu/Debian or similar)

BSD (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, JunOS)

Virtualization and Containerization (libvirt/KVM, proxmox, VMWare, docker)

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: $60,000.00-$80,000.00 per year

Additional pay:

Bonus pay

Benefits:

Casual dress
Dental care
Extended health care
Vision care
Work from home

Schedule:

8 hour shift
Monday to Friday

COVID-19 considerations:
Mostly no interaction with customers.

Ability to commute/relocate:

Vancouver, BC: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

Please explain how your work experience relates to the job description and why you are interested in this job.

Application deadline: 2022-05-22

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