IT Systems Analyst

Siskinds LLP is a leading law firm located in Southwestern Ontario. We are a team of over
240 lawyers and staff covering personal legal services, business law, personal injury law,
and class actions law as well as over 25 specialized practice areas. We help clients make
the right legal choices, manage their legal affairs, and resolve complicated matters. Our
culture and working style strive to make our clients’ experiences comfortable, reassuring,
and productive while delivering excellence in the services we provide.

IT Systems Analyst - Full-time (2 positions)

What are you looking for?
- Be part of a cohesive team that promotes collaboration and teamwork
- Work in a technologically advanced environment with exposure to many specialized- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Professional development opportunities
- Strength of a big firm with the culture of a small firm
- Subsidized downtown parking
- Working within a state-of-the-art building

Who are we looking for?

Siskinds is growing and we are currently seeking an IT Systems Analyst. This position will
require you to assist with the day-to-day management of our hybrid IT infrastructure
environment which includes our on-premise, cloud, network and server environments.
Responsibilities will include a high degree of involvement in all server and network
provisioning, management, and monitoring of our existing infrastructure, all software and
endpoint hardware deployments, cloud provisioning, and management of our existing
and coordinate the vendor relationships covering various cybersecurity services, network
design and implementation. This role will require you to work regularly after-hours or
extended hours on weekdays and weekends as needed for projects and upgrades,
preventative maintenance, problem resolution and break-fixes.

Qualifications:

- Post-secondary diploma/certificate/degree in a related computer studies area
- 3 to 5+ years’ relevant technical experience (preferably in a professional services
- environment)- 3 to 5+ years’ Hypervisor administration experience (preferably VMware vSphere)
- Certification in VMWare Professional
- Advanced Windows Server and Active Directory Administration skills
- Competency in supporting Azure, AWS, IBM or similar cloud computing environments
- (Azure certification preferred)- Experience and comfort in using client management technologies such as Intune,

SCCM/MECM, Group Policy and/or other similar technologies.

Excellence
- Integrity
- Leadership
- Collegiality
- Inclusion
- Direct experience with managing endpoint and mobile devices with Microsoft Intune and

defining Conditional Access policies
- Experience with Veeam software for backup, replications to support DR requirements is

preferred
- One or more current MCSA (or higher) MCP Certifications is preferred.
- Prior experience participating in or leading mass deployments of hardware and software
- IT Service Management (ITIL) knowledge (preferable ITIL certified)
- Project Management experience with competency in planning and coordination of

delivering enterprise solutions through engagement with internal and external
stakeholders and vendors
- Experience with process mapping and design analysis with a talent in identifying

technical efficiencies and proposing solutions to management
- Experience managing endpoint security, anti-virus, malware prevention and detection

tools
- Adherence to professional codes of conduct that are exemplified in the Canadian

Information Processing Society (CIPS) and the Association for Computing Machinery
(ACM) with respect to ethical, social, environmental, health, safety and cultural issues
- A thorough understanding of Layer 2 and 3 networking protocols (including WAN

technologies) and at least 3 years’ practical experience with network design and
administration
- Desired Cisco Certified Network Professional and/or CompTIA+, Security+
- Desired CCNP Enterprise, CCNP Data Center

**Responsibilities**:

- Support Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI), software defined storage
- Deploy and manage cloud - public & private - compute, storage and network resources
- Active Directory Administration - management of objects and policies, identities,
- authentications, integrations, and synchronization to Azure via AD Connect- Microsoft 365 Administration - Office 365 / Enterprise Mobility & Security / Azure AD
- admin- Azure Administration - deployment and management of compute and storage resources
- Ensure the availability of data through back-up, recovery and disaster recovery solutions
- are met- Maintain, support, and administer all infrastructure hardware and networking
- components for the entire VMware vSphere virtualization platform- Ensure production changes follow compliance standards and conformance practice
- standards that align with ITIL- Possess a breadth of knowledge in Computer Science and understanding of the

domain
- Analyze network health of both practical and theoretic nature and reme