IT Technician

Alamos Gold's Island Gold is one of Canada's highest grade and lowest cost gold mines.  This underground operation is located just east of the town of Dubreuilville, 83 kilometres northeast of Wawa in Northern Ontario.  Through ongoing exploration success, Island Gold's Mineral Reserves and Resources have continued to grow in size and quality, and Alamos is now investing in a major expansion project which is expected to transform Island into one of the largest and most profitable mines in Canada with an 18-year mine life. This is a very exciting time at Island Gold, and we are searching for highly motivated and committed people to join our team

If you are willing to be part of a team that is dedicated to growth, high performance and a culture of safety and accountability, we would like to hear from you

Primary Responsibilities:

• Ensuring the alignment of existing infrastructure against security models such as NIST and PURDUE.
• Maintain and support the IT/OT environment across a broad range of areas including routing, switching, voice, wireless, security, DNS, and load balancing platforms and technologies.
• Administration experience with the full Microsoft environment, switches, firewalls and other core networking applications.
• Monitor IT/OT networks to ensure network availability to pre-agreed Service Levels and provide support accordingly.
• Create standardized environment through best practice, inventory management, templating, provisioning, and auditing/reporting.
• Maintain systems across a broad IT/OT hybrid network. (On prem and cloud-based solutions)
• Integrate network-connected systems such as servers, storage, workstations, cameras, and cloud systems for optimal security and performance.
• Leverage observability tools to build and enhance monitoring, alerting, and config backups across the network topology.
• Quickly diagnose and troubleshoot a broad range of level 1 through level 3 IT support requirements.
• Participate in on-call rotation as needed and address critical issues during off hours as needed.

Skills, Knowledge, and Experience:

• Proven track record with 5 years of experience administering IT and Industrial Networks and applications.
• This will include components of designing and implementing complete network infrastructure, as well as integrating partial upgrades in a variety of environments, from network infrastructure to copper and fiber cabling, to configurations with the goal of having a system that is highly reliable and simple to manage.
• Proven and demonstratable knowledge of both business and industrial networking technologies and communication protocols.
• Strong technical curiosity, security-minded, and a "let's figure it out" attitude.
• Experience managing systems on the network – Servers, PLC's, HMI, SAN, NAS, Workstations, Phone systems, IP Cameras,
• Experience with network observability, management, and monitoring tools such as SolarWinds, etc.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science from an accredited university
• 5 + years experience required
• Current active certification on Microsoft or CISCO Enterprise Networking 
• Industrial Networking or Control Systems Certification required
• Must be able to work on location in Dubreuilville, ON 7/7 cross-shift
• Experience with LTE networks, Dell, Cisco, and Microsoft environments
• Experience working in mining or heavy industry in remote environments is an asset 
• No issues with rolling up your sleeves and getting all levels of IT work done
• Availability outside of business hours for emergencies and maintenance work as part of a small team

Alamos Gold Inc. may use artificial intelligence to initially screen or assess applicants for this position with respect to mandatory job requirements.  

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.  

 Alamos Gold Inc. (the "Company") is committed to creating and maintaining an accessible environment for all third parties, and will provide accommodation where required, in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (the "Act"). The Company is committed to excellence in serving all third parties including people with disabilities and will do so by preventing and removing barriers to accessibility and meeting the requirements under the Act in a timely fashion.