The Role

You will be responsible for managing and maintaining day to day operations of our Corporate and rig site facing networks and infrastructure. This includes ensuring the continued operation, stability, and integrity of Pason’s voice, data, video, wireless, satellite and terrestrial networks. This is achieved by planning, designing, and developing local area networks (LAN) and corporate wide area networks (WAN) solutions. In addition, you will participate with the installation, monitoring, maintenance, support, and optimization of all network hardware, software, and communication links in the office and datacenters. You will also work with internal project teams, users, and external customers to co-develop network solutions for commercial communications products.

The Team

Corporate IT provides both Pasonites and our rig site customers with the modern technological tools, services, and end-user support they need to work efficiently and securely. We’re focused on continuously improving our IT infrastructure (including data centers, servers, networks, and software tools), ensuring IT security, and acting as IT advisors in a rapidly changing technological landscape.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Key contributor to a team responsible for deployment, management and maintenance of the core corporate and customer facing networks
Key contributor to a team responsible for design, management and maintenance of a large-scale Satellite and LTE wireless network system, and ensuring integrity and security of the communication networks
Ensuring integrity and security of all communication networks
Install, configure and maintain network hardware, systems, and software
Monitor system performance and implement performance tuning
Design and implementation of network fault-tolerance, diversity and disaster recovery initiatives
Provide operational support of an ISP-grade network environment, including but not limited to bandwidth management systems and packet analysis tools
Document problems, procedures, and activities associated with communications hardware, providing proven resolutions
Strong analytical ability and professional office experience
Strong vendor (particularly with national telecoms) management skills
Strong interpersonal and team collaboration skills
Ability to work with minimal supervision, self-motivate, take ownership of an area of operations, identify issues, and work independently
Act as a network trusted expert across multiple IT teams
Must be able to collaborate with other teams and build consensus when designing and implementing solutions
Participate in an on-call rotation for corporate & customer network Tier 3 outages

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

Advanced knowledge in network design and implementation with Routers, Switches, Load balancers, Firewalls, Wireless LAN Controller and Sandvine (Procera)
Deep understanding with networking protocols such as BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, VRF, DMVPN, NAT, QoS, Spanning-tree, VLAN.
Deep understanding of TCP/IP protocol suite and protocols such as HTTP, DHCP, DNS, SNMP, SMTP.
Implementation experience with security protocols and devices such as stateful firewall, IPS, IPSec, SSL/TLS as well as L2 security (DHCP snooping, ARP inspection).
Working knowledge of satellite and terrestrial RF fundamentals such as C/No, Gain, SNR, RRSQ, RRSI etc.
Experience with Cisco routers and switches
Experience in Fortinet firewalling solutions, and F5 load balancers
Experience with VoIP technologies (design and diagnosing Cisco based VoIP solutions).
Experience with networking implementation in the AWS and Azure environment
Knowledge with MPLS VPN technologies
Experience with Linux OS
A proven ability to work with teams in a constructive, cooperative and respectful manner
Confident, independent and self-motivated, with very good problem-solving skills
Must have the ability to communicate (with internal and external customers) via phone, email, and in person
Fluent verbal and written English communication skills

Hybrid Work Environment

This position allows the opportunity for an employee to work in a hybrid environment where a portion of their role is in the office and the other portion remote.

Pre-employment Conditions

Completion of a satisfactory Criminal Record Check

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Experience

Required

3 year(s): Experience as a Network Administrator, with preference to individuals with ISP or telecom experience.
Certifications in CCNA (required) or
Experience with satellite and terrestrial wireless solutions including IoT experience

Education

Required

Bachelors or better in Information Technology or related field
Bachelors or better in Engineering - Electrical/Computer or related field
Bachelors or better in Computer Related Studies or related field

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