About Us

Infrastructure Analyst (Winnipeg, MB )

Posted: May 13, 2020
Employment Status: Full-time - Permanent
Geographic Territory: Based in Winnipeg, Manitoba

Payworks is Canada’s fastest growing workforce management solutions provider and a multi-year winner of Canada’s Best Managed Companies. With over 20,000 clients from coast to coast and more than 300 employees, we currently have an exciting opportunity with our Infrastructure team for the right candidate.

WORLD-CLASS PRODUCTS – IT’S WHAT WE DO

• Payworks develops proprietary, integrated cloud-based products in the payroll, human resources and time and attendance space. The Infrastructure team is responsible for designing, testing and implementing infrastructure initiatives and this requires a talented team of Infrastructure Analysts who are excellent critical thinkers/problem solvers and are driven to maintain and improve upon existing high performing, resilient and secure infrastructure solutions.

COLLABORATE & INNOVATE – IT’S WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Develop creative solutions without the red tape – You will design, test and implement technology solutions and engage with team members to come up with the best technical solutions to those business problems to ensure the performance, integrity, resiliency and scalability of Payworks networks and virtualized datacentres.
• Create a virtual connection – Configure hypervisor and virtual machines to ensure consistency in staging, production and disaster recovery sites. You will also provide continuous testing and evaluating to DR and BCP to make sure all equipment is up-to-date and working.
• Work with a team – Support, cooperate, and create with cross-functional teams. You will collaborate with the security and compliance teams to ensure devices and their configurations meet or exceed the standard and redefine normal. You will develop actions plans for continuous improvement and resolution of issues.
• Make great products even better - Monitor, maintain, and support existing functionality by identifying areas to elevate the IT infrastructure and explore new technologies to meet the evolving needs of users, clients and the business.

WHY YOU SHOULD CHOOSE PAYWORKS

• Competitive base salary and comprehensive benefits plan.
• Excellent pension plan with employer contributions.
• Flexible working hours and no dress code.
• Free parking and employee gym onsite with daily instructor-led classes.
• Modern office custom-designed for creative work with smart collaboration space.
• Community-minded culture – Receive a paid day per year to volunteer and lots of opportunity to “Pay it Forward”.
• Cool perks including a wellness subsidy, Costco membership, parental leave benefits, flex time and more!
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WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED

• 7+ years in a technical role relating to virtualization design or administration.
• Strong understanding of virtualization technologies (VMware) and knowledge of fault tolerant and high availability protocols, technologies and features as they pertain to converged networks and virtualized datacenter.
• A keen understanding of replication technologies as they pertain to disaster recovery and datacenter migration projects.
• Possess knowledge of a breadth of server, storage and networking technologies such as x86 Blade, FC, iSCSI, NAS, Routing and Switching (L2/L3).
• Able to design logical networks for the virtual infrastructure using relevant technologies (VLAN, Trunking/Tagging, Q-S and policy-based routing)
• Thrives in a collaborative and respectful team environment and won’t shy away from working with others to solve complex problems

BONUS SKILLS THAT WOULD BE GREAT

• Previous experience with disaster recovery and business continuity planning considered an asset
• Strong pride of ownership in your work,
• Ability to problem solve and manage your time.