Compugen is seeking a Senior Network analyst for 1 year contract working in Edmonton.
Responsibilities:
- Support and manage the lan, wan, and wireless networks including Cisco switches, routers, Checkpoint & Cisco ASA firewalls, Ruckus WAPs, site to site dmVPNs, and Checkpoint/Cisco secure VPN access with MFA.
- Monitor network lan/wan/internet performance and usage.
- Support and manage the Cisco UC phone system; we are planning to move to Teams voice.
- Document all networks and network devices with standard tools including Visio.
- Review and provide guidance on improving network infrastructure security.
- Plan and schedule required updates (after hours) to network and phone systems.
- Ensure all network maintenance agreements and licenses are current.
- Update the IT team with networking projects, new/ongoing issues, and networking related IT trends at weekly team meetings.
- On-call support scheduled and shared with other members of the IT team.
- Occasional travel to variou sites across the country for network implementations or other onsite work.
- Other duties as required.
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in a similar role/environment with related industry certs (eg CCNP).
- (must-have) Hands-on in a multi-office environment with remote data centres and Cisco dmvpn with failover routing.
- (must-have) Intermediate to advanced Cisco experience in an enterprise environment with switching and routing.
- Experience with Checkpoint firewalls and the Smart-1 cloud; we are currently moving all offices from Cisco ASA to Checkpoint.
- Familiar with Solarwinds NCM for configuration backup/auditing and other network tools (eg OpManager, Scrutinzer netflow, syslog).
- Experience working with managed network providers (Telus, NWTel, SaskTel, Rogers, Bell/MTS).
- (nice-to-have) Ruckus WAPs and point-to-point backhauls.
- (nice-to-have) AWS or Microsoft Azure networking.
- Exceptional communication and customer service skills.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, able to work independently.