Akkodis is partnered with a leading FinTech who specialize in payment processing to recruit a Senior Network Administrator to join their infrastructure network services team here in Toronto.
In this role, you will play a crucial role in managing, administering, and maintaining the company's network services. This will include overseeing network devices, associated software, local and wide area network connections, communication links, and firewalls / network security, to ensure robust, scalable, reliable, and efficient infrastructure in both on-prem and cloud environments.
What you'll do :
- Provide support, in an automated way, when possible, to all Network services offerings.
- Lead platform currency, capacity planning, and the reporting of defined Service level agreements
- Participate in projects, design, implementation, installation, and configuration of Network Infrastructure systems.
- Accountable for identified service ownership offerings. Including the ownership of the service support queue and operational documentation.
- Responsible for the escalations occurring in daily operations, including business-as-usual service and change requests, incident investigation, remediation, troubleshooting, and monitoring of network services, local and wide area network connections, and Datacenter.
- Rotational on-call is required to support 24 / 7 important and production systems.
- In partnership with Infrastructure and Development teams, leads / participates in building the supporting networks for core in-house develop gateways, transaction, and payment processing systems.
Key skills and experience :
- Minimum 5 years of experience working with Firewall administration, design, and management.
- Experience with Palo Alto and Panorama is a must.
- Experience with Cisco switches and firewalls
- Experience with F5 Load Balancer
- Proficient in network designs, administration, implementation, monitoring, support, and automation.
- Prior experience setting up and configuring devices, as well as maintaining and providing day-to-day administration and support.
- Enterprise experience preferred.
Nice-to-haves :
- Proficient in leading projects or project steps and communicating progress / approach with technical / non-technical peers / clients and leaders.
- Proficiency in payment systems and the merchant acquiring business would be an asset.
If you are interested in learning more, or if you would like to discuss any other Senior Network related roles, don't hesitate to apply today!