Junior Server Technician

**Junior Server Technician**

**Department**: Treasury Board Secretariat

**Location**: Charlottetown / Hybrid Options within PEI

**Position**: Full-Time 100% Position (Commencing immediately)

E**mployment Type**:Classified (Permanent) - UPSE

**Hourly Salary Range**:$31.08 - $38.87

**Annual Salary Range**: $60,606 - $75,797

**Pay Level**: 15

**Bi-Weekly Hours**: 75.0 hours bi-weekly

**Posting ID**:162059-1124SDPO

**Closing Date**: Friday, December 13, 5 p.m.

**Open to**: Public

The is committed to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility. Our goal is to build a public sector workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve and to promote welcoming, diverse, inclusive, respectful workplaces that are accessible to all. We welcome all interested individuals including Indigenous People, persons with disabilities, Black, racialized, ethnic and culturally diverse groups, as well as people regardless of their sexual orientation, gender identities, and gender expressions. Those looking for more information are invited to visit our Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Policy.

**What we offer**:

- Flexible working hours
- Hybrid options within PEI
- Health and dental benefits
- Pension Plan
- Up to $2,500 annual training funds
- 3 weeks paid vacation annually

**Our Vision**: Forward-looking people, service, and technology.

**Our Mission**: Our Team proudly delivers quality IT expertise and advice with our partners to make citizen and business-centric service possible.

The purpose of this position is to maintain and iteratively improve the Government server computing environment. This environment is the basis of all client facing digital services.

**Duties will include but are not limited to**:

- Develop, maintain, debug, test and document infrastructure components and configurations;
- Install, upgrade, maintain the operation of the government Server and data center environment;
- Troubleshoot infrastructure components;
- Work closely with junior technicians, peers, and management to ensure environment consistency and reliability;
- Maintain acceptable levels of service quality through monitoring and proactive maintenance/upgrades;
- Prepare technical utilization forecasts and potential impacts and risk mitigations;
- Continually work to optimize and standardize our existing infrastructure;
- Compile and update equipment inventories and topology diagrams/documentation;
- Design and lead implementation of new technologies in our environment;
- Work closely with junior technicians, peers, and management to ensure security, confidentiality, and availability of Government IT infrastructure;
- Research industry trends and standards, provide recommendations;
- Advise on hardware, software, and communications components and performance improvements;
- Assist in the evaluation of server/data center equipment, software, supplies and services;
- Provide input on specifications for maintenance contracts;
- Other duties as required.

**Minimum Qualifications**:

- Applicants must have a university degree or college diploma with major course work in Server Infrastructure;
- Minimum 2 years of related enterprise-level experience in the IT industry and extensive experience in supporting complex server infrastructure;
- Demonstrated equivalencies will be considered;
- One of the following server-based operating system certification designations within active product lifecycle: Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) designation for Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate, Redhat Certified System Administrator, or Oracle Certified Associate, System 5 and 6 System Administration;
- Experience configuring and maintaining Server Operating Systems (Such As: Windows Server 2012+, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Oracle Unbreakable Linux);
- Experience configuring and maintaining enterprise identity management platforms (Such As: Microsoft Active Directory, Azure Active Directory);
- Ability to assess and analyse client requests and propose effective solutions;
- Strong communication skills, both written and oral;
- Effective interpersonal skills, judgement, dependability, and reliability;
- Professionalism - desire to keep abreast of trends and developments;
- Must have access to reliable transportation;

**Other Qualifications**:

- Experience configuring and maintaining enterprise backup platforms (Such As: Networker, Veeam)
- Experience configuring and maintaining enterprise virtual environments (Such As: VMWare, Hyper-V)
- Experience configuring and maintaining enterprise storage platforms (Such As: HP, EMC)
- Experience utilizing and authoring Powershell scripts for complex environment administration tasks
- Experience with the SolarWinds Orion Platform for environment monitoring and reporting
- Experience configuring and maintaining terminal services platforms (Such As: Microsoft Remote
- Desktop/APP-V, Citrix Storefront/Presentation Server)

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