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The perks of working at Nelnet go beyond our benefits package. When you join the Nelnet team, you're part of a community invested in the success of each individual. That support comes through in our work, as we are united by our mission of creating opportunities for people where they live, learn, and work.

Provides daily ongoing deployment, configuration, support, administration, maintenance and technical solutions to various technology components that make up the IT Infrastructure environment.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

As a member of the Enterprise network team a candidate will be expected to participate in both project related work as well as day to day operational support.

Provide general support across multiple network environments, including campus, data center, and WAN.

Provide firewall support to include day to day troubleshooting of connectivity requests and VPN tunnels

Complete after hours changes as needed

Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation.

Willingness to work on site to support Campus network environments.

Work with multiple customers, stakeholders, and system owners to produce requirements, determine feasibility, analyze cost/benefits requirements, and recommend design solution options.

Provide training and technical support for users with varying levels of IT knowledge.

Compensation Range for this Role: $79,000-$127,000 CAD (based on experience)

This role has a hybrid work requirement of 2 days minimum in office per week.

Additionally, this position requires the successful completion of a Government of Canada Reliability Clearance (PERC) as a condition of employment. Candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain the required clearance throughout their employment.

EDUCATION





Bachelor's degree in Information Science or related field and/or equivalent combination of education and experience. Cisco CCNA or equivalent experience desired

EXPERIENCE
This position is for someone with 5-7 years of network and security experience working a variety of network areas, to include the following disciplines: routing/switching, data center, wireless, security, VPN, collaboration, virtualization, disaster recovery/high availability, acceleration technologies, and cloud provider/services.

COMPETENCIES – SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITIES

Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

Strong oral and written communication skills.

Ability to work well within a team

Ability to work well with technical and non-technical clients.

Familiar with NIST standards and controls.

Intermediate system and programming knowledge of:

Cisco ISR and ASR Routers

Cisco Catalyst and Nexus Switches

Next Generation Firewalls (Palo Alto)

Campus Network Design

Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers and Access Points

NAC/Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)

Network Load Balancing (F5)

SD Wan Technologies

Routing Protocols: BGP / OSPF / EIGRP

First Hop Redundancy Protocols: HSRP / VRRP / GLBP

VRF implementation and design

VSS and VPC technologies

MPLS WAN infrastructure

IPSEC VPN Tunnel design, implementation, and support

User VPN (Palo Alto Global Protect)

IPS, IDS, SSL Decryption, and URL Filtering

Enterprise QOS

IPv4 and IPv6 addressing

Scripting and Network Automation (Python, VBscript, Powershell)

Experience in maintaining network monitoring systems

Experience in taking and reading network packet captures

Familiarity with AWS infrastructure (VPC's,



Security Groups, Direct Connect)

Familiarity with supporting multi-cloud environments (Azure, GPC, etc)

This position is for an existing vacancy within our organization.

BENEFITS & PERKS

medical

dental

vision

HSA and FSA

generous earned time off

401K/student loan repayment

life insurance & AD&D; insurance

employee assistance program

employee stock purchase program

tuition reimbursement

performance-based incentive pay

short- and long-term disability

a robust wellness program

Click here to learn more about our benefits: Benefits & Perks - Nelnet Inc.

Nelnet is committed to providing a welcoming and respectful workplace where all associates have the opportunity to succeed. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we ensure that all qualified applicants are considered for employment. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion/creed, national origin, gender, sex, marital status, age, disability, use of a guide dog or service animal, sexual orientation, military/veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law. We value the unique contributions of every team member and believe that a positive work setting benefits everyone.

Qualified individuals with disabilities who require reasonable accommodations in order to apply or compete for positions at Nelnet may request such accommodations by contacting Corporate Recruiting at (phone hidden) or [email protected].

Nelnet is a Drug Free and Tobacco Free Workplace.

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📌 IT Infrastructure Engineer - Network (Ontario)
🏢 Nelnet
📍 Ontario