Network Analyst

**(Internal title: IT Analyst - network)**

**Description**

Recognized as an expert by your peers, partners and colleagues? We offer you the opportunity to realize your full potential as a Network Analyst within the Infrastructure and Operations Vice-Presidency.

Working in project mode as a member of a stable implementation team, you'll analyze and implement complex network technology solutions. Working closely with operations teams, you'll be responsible for ensuring the consistency of your solutions to facilitate their transition to operating mode.

Methodical and diligent, you'll stop at nothing to put your excellent knowledge to good use in carrying out high-quality analyses and proposing innovative, well-argued solutions? Open-minded and sociable, you will be integrated into a project team that is both stable and agile, working closely with architects, technicians, project and operational analysts and project managers/scrum masters.

**More specifically, you will**:

- Develop and write technology analyses in collaboration with the architects;
- Analyze and modify operational processes of the networking team;
- Identify areas for improvement, particularly in terms of standardization and automation;
- Work with technicians to document installation, operation and support guides;
- Write, carry out and/or coordinate tests up to results;
- Identify and document the impact of delivered solutions on operating teams;
- Organize and carry out proofs of concept and production launches in compliance with operating standards;
- Define action plans and activities to be carried out within your mandates;
- Perform quality assurance on work done by less experienced colleagues.
- Your proven experience will enable you to contribute to controlling the quality of results, meeting deadlines and project costs.

**Desired background**:

- DEC or Bachelor's degree in computer science with a minimum of 5 years' experience in information technology, including 3 years in telecommunications:

- Ability to work in a project and Agile environment;
- Experience with network automation (Python) and software define (NetDevOps).
- Experience with cloud computing concepts and solutions as a whole: SaaS, PaaS, IaaS;
- Good general knowledge of networking (routing, campus, data center, firewall, load balancing, web and cloud);
- More specifically, good knowledge of several of the following technologies:

- Infrastructure as a code (ARM templates);
- Interconnection of Cloud environments: Microsoft Express Route, Amazon Direct Connect, Oracle Fast Connect, Google InterConnect, etc;
- Routing protocols, including advanced knowledge of BGP;
- Cisco networking: Catalyst, Nexus, ISR, ASR, Wifi, ISE, DNA, SDAccess, ACI;
- Vendor links (MPLS, WAN, MAN, SD-WAN, Internet, VPN).
- Familiar with technology analysis and technology architecture documentation

Asset:

- Experience with VeloCloud SD-WAN solutions;
- Experience with Azure environment;
- CISCO certification;
- Security (Palo Alto),
- Infrastructure (Vmware NSX, Cisco ACI, Netapp, UCS, HCI).
- Knowledge of ITIL;
- Experience of working in Lean/Agile/DevOps mode.

This permanent position is located at our head office in beautiful Quebec City.

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**Company Overview**:
**About**:
iA Financial Group is the strength of a company with a human side, with its over 8,000 employees. Together, we have earned the trust of our more than four million clients and 50,000 advisors who have chosen us for their insurance, savings, and wealth management.

With over $200 billion in assets and half a billion invested in technological innovation, we’re a key player in the financial services industry in Canada and the United States. The secret to our success? Investing in you, one person at a time. Because, for over 125 years, we have believed that it’s by supporting our employees and surrounding ourselves with the most reputable leaders in the industry, we will continue to innovate.

At iA, we’re invested in you.

**Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion**:
At iA Financial Group, we support and celebrate diversity. We strive to provide a workplace that is recognized as inclusive for all, regardless of ethnic origin, nationality, language, religious beliefs, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, family situation, or physical or mental disability.

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