Network Specialist

A little about Capital Power

Capital Power (TSX: CPX) is dedicated to powering a sustainable future for people and planet. Headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, we’re a growth oriented North American power producer that creates innovative electricity solutions to electrify the world reliably and affordably while protecting the planet for future generations. We’re passionate about our employees and place their entire wellbeing at the center of our people strategy. We are proud to foster a culture that values diversity, equity, and inclusion; recognizing this is paramount to help grow our company and reach our net carbon neutral by 2050 goal. We’re proud to foster an inclusive environment where employees are empowered to be their best, make meaningful contributions and go home safe every day.

Your Opportunity

One Permanent Full Time Position.

Capital Power Corporation is currently seeking an innovative and results-oriented individual to join our Information Services Infrastructure team.

Reporting to the Network Manager, the Network Specialist is accountable for the operation of Capital Power’s network infrastructure. This includes participating and ensuring daily operational tasks are completed (including such items as monitoring network health, incident management, change management, backup validation, network health monitoring, patching, security reviews, etc.) The Network Specialist is expected to have strong documentation skills and attention to detail, effective time management, ability to set priorities and meet deadlines, great interpersonal skills, follows best practices, and understand what systems are critical to Capital Power.

You will contribute to our team by
- Supporting sophisticated and diverse set of network hardware and services for multiple business areas.
- Ensuring team provides highly adaptable and customer-focused support services for all Capital Power business units, including second tier support for the Service Desk.
- Supervising performance and ensuring high availability and performance levels are achieved to support a high customer experience.
- Providing support services that meets outlined “Service Level Agreements” in this highly sophisticated “network” environment.
- Providing support services for both operations and capital project initiatives.
- Understanding and following IT processes and practices, including General Computing Controls (GCC’s) to support CSOX requirements.
- Providing technical advice to direct manager, senior manager, and peers in support of business and strategic goals relevant to the duties of the position.
- Providing input into decisions within the network team - ensuring standard methodology is followed by vendors in relation to network managed services (if required).
- Leading and participating in the resolution of technical problems.
- Serving/acting as an internal technical resource related to the network infrastructure and supporting services, technologies and solutions implemented.
- With the complex set of supporting network services, providing an overarching solution instead of problem resolution.

What you will bring to the role

**Education**:

- Diploma or Degree in Computing Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent.
- CompTIA Network+ and Security+ would be an asset.
- Cisco CCNP and CCNA would be an asset.

**Experience**:

- 3+ years experience in Palo Alto NGFW or equivalent would be an asset.
- 3+ years’ experience with design, support, maintenance, and integration of large-scale IT infrastructure systems, with a specialization in networking.
- 3+ years in system support, maintenance, and support role.

Technical Skills:

- Working knowledge of key network infrastructure components, including:

- Network switches, routers, firewalls.
- Core network switches and virtual switches.
- Networking technologies, such as, routing protocols (ex: OSPF), Spanning tree, fail-over services, WAN acceleration, MPLS, WAN, SDWAN services, VMWare NSX-T, etc.
- Telephony services (Ex: Cisco UC, Voice gateways, etc.
- Self-motivated, organized, customer focused, detail-oriented, and effective communicator.
- Problem solving, results driven and action-oriented when working on assigned tasks.

Additional Details

In order to be considered for this role you must be legally eligible to work in Canada.

We offer a highly flexible benefits and wellbeing program, comprehensive onboarding and training, and various development opportunities to support your success and personal growth.


Capital Power is committed to providing a fair and transparent hiring process. We recognize and embrace the value of diversity and hire employees with the appropriate skills, experience and knowledge for each position.