Information Technology Network Analyst

Network Analyst

School District 72 operates throughout a large geographic area. Campbell River and Quadra Island schools and our school board office are located on the traditional territory of the Liǧʷiɫdax̌ʷ people. School District 72 also encompasses the traditional territory of the Klahoose (Cortes), K’ómoks (Sayward), and χʷɛmaɬkʷu (Bute Inlet) First Nations.

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Posting Number: SY2627-IT-001
Permanent
School District 72 is looking for a Network Analyst to join our team of professionals who strive to bring the district’s learning beliefs to life.
The district serves over 5,600 students in 18 schools with a diverse range of programs that are progressive and responsive to the educational needs and interests of students.
The district respects and values the relationships with all First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples who reside in these territories. Reporting to the Director of Information Technology (IT), the Network Analyst is responsible for day-to-day operation and maintenance of School District 72’s network infrastructure. The Network Analyst will collaborate and participate in projects to engineer, design, build, automate, administer, and maintain, systems, servers, network, storage, data center, applications, and infrastructure to ensure SD72 has a robust, scalable, reliable, and efficient Infrastructure on prem and in cloud that supports its business.
Maintains the integrity of the network by installing, upgrading, and maintaining network routers, switches, wireless, VPN, firewalls, and other devices at current operating system levels as provided by the manufacturer, working with vendors to diagnose and resolve network problems, operating and configuring protocol analyzers to diagnose problems, analyzing captured data using network protocols to determine problems, and using network monitoring software to detect network conditions requiring corrective action or performance tuning.
Responsible for the implementation and maintenance of SD72’s security programs.
Assists in conducting computer incident investigations.
Collects and analyzes computer forensics data to enable the creation of evidence in the event of a security breach.
Performs assessment and analysis on anomalous network and system activity.
Sets up LAN and WAN networks including Routers, Firewalls, and Switch Configurations.
Designs, implements, and maintains network technology services to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the district’s information assets.
Configures and maintains essential network services.
Responsible for design, installation, and troubleshooting of servers and software systems on both physical and virtualized server environments, including Windows Server and Linux servers and desktop/laptop systems.
Responsible for the deployment and administration of firewall rule sets, Virtual Private Networks (VPN) and IPsec tunnels, etc
Assists with data security design principles, and practices.
Administers and maintains department’s real-time alerting, monitoring, and digital forensics.
Collaborates with the IT department to ensure timely implementation of controls, including patching, with minimal impact on business operations.
Assists with security awareness training to colleagues, as well as business units across the organization.
Mentors and trains IT staff, clients, as required.
May be assigned Team Lead responsibilities periodically when the Systems Analyst Team Lead is absent.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Minimum five years’ experience in IT, specifically within networking and infrastructure in an enterprise environment.
Considerable knowledge of information technology components, processes, and new developments.
Familiarity with Microsoft Active Directory, Azure, Exchange, Endpoint Management, Teams Voice, Office 365, Security and Compliance policies, Conditional Access policies.
Experience creating and analyzing security posture, policies, and procedures to determine weakness in infrastructure security.
Advanced level networking knowledge or experience including installing, troubleshooting, configuring and maintaining routers, firewalls, switches, and wireless access points within an enterprise-wide environment.
Strong knowledge of networking concepts and protocols include DHCP, DNS/BIND, SMTP, SNMP, NAT, PAT, OSPF, MPLS, UDP, etc.
Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain concepts and topics to clients of varying levels of technical understanding.
Excellent analytical skills the ability to analyze and evaluate various data and information, develop solutions and strategies for technological problems and assess the implications of proposed changes.
Ability to collaborate effectively, achieve objectives autonomously, to lead and/or work as part of a team, and to provide mentorship and training to other team members.

Honour Indigenous World Views and Perspectives
Commitment and adherence to workplace policies, procedures & practices.
Commitment to understand and implement the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.

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Campbell River is a scenic, oceanfront community framed by extensive waterfront, west coast forests and snow-capped mountains. The moderate climate allows residents to participate in numerous outdoor activities on a year-round basis.
Positive collegial culture with a great sense of community.

Employees are eligible for extended health and dental benefits, life insurance, and participation in a pension program as outlined in the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Local 723 along with competitive vacation and sick day entitlements.
Employment Equity
We value diversity of people to best represent the students and communities we serve as an equitable and inclusive employer. Within this hiring process we will make efforts to create an accessible process for all applicants (including but not limited to people with disabilities). Confidential accommodation is available on request.
The successful candidate will be required to complete a criminal record check.
Assessment of qualifications, skills and ability may include, but not limited to, hours of experience, proof of certification, testing, interviewing, probationary periods and so on.