Senior Technology Specialist - Jobs in Toronto Dominion Centre

Job Description

Senior Technology SpecialistDepartment: Information Technology Operations and SecurityType: PermanentLocation: TorontoPosting Date: November 1, 2023At OPTrust, paying pensions today, preserving pensions for tomorrow is our mission and business.When you choose OPTrust, you join a team of smart, talented people who fuel our success and have a passion for pensions. Everyone at OPTrust - from London, Toronto, and Sydney - makes a meaningful impact, our environment is fast paced, but we find time to have fun and give back to the community as well. Our strength resides in our team members with different backgrounds and perspectives creating an inclusive and fulfilling place to work for everyone.What OPTrust Offers You

• Unique culture rooted in our core values - collaboration and teamwork, integrity, respect, flexibility, and excellence and continuous improvement - reflected across the team.
• Dedicated business strategy for inclusion, diversity, and equity with multiple, meaningful opportunities to participate.
• Flexible, hybrid work model being implemented to balance the benefits of working from home and the collaborative teamwork experience in the office.
• Membership in our world-class defined benefit pension plan.
• A purpose-driven environment, including the opportunity to contribute to OPTrust #39;s climate change and responsible investing programs.
• Professional development opportunities and learning initiatives including access to LinkedIn Learning, in-house speaker series, tuition reimbursement program and professional association memberships.
• Comprehensive benefits package focused on your health and wellness, including dental, vision and extended health benefits.
• Opportunity to take parental and adoptions leaves to spend time with family.
• Competitive vacation package and time away from work such as work-life balance days.

If you strive for excellence and continuous improvement, value a collaborative and flexible team culture, and approach everything with integrity and respect, then we invite you to apply to join our team!About the RoleTo provide innovative technical solutions with expertise in the architecture of infrastructure systems, hosting, networking, and cloud integration. To document and maintain a library of technical assets, lifecycle, and architecture documentation to support new and current deployments with the goal of continuous improvement. This position is accountable for leading the design of infrastructure systems, as well as implementation and maintenance, enhancement and production support of these and third-party models for cloud hosted infrastructures. Responsible for ensuring the most up to date information is catalogued and updated as required.What You #39;ll Do

2. Conduct technical assessment by:

• Providing guidance in assessing, researching and analyzing business needs to explore solutions for the business needs
• Analyzing, recommending and overseeing the best system solution to meet the needs of the business
• Providing direction in translating business requirements into technical specifications
• Participating in walkthrough reviews of all technical specifications and prototype demonstrations
• Developing and constantly maintaining systems documentation, infrastructure diagrams, for existing and new OPTrust applications/systems and keeping them current with changes
• Designing and contributing to developing and monitoring the testing of programs and systems conducting change control and quality assurance;
• Reviewing and identifying weaknesses in current systems and recommending changes as appropriate.

3. Provide leadership in the release of infrastructure, applications and/or reports to support business processes.

• Participate in the process of consulting users to understand and translate business procedures and requirements into technical specifications
• Design, develop, systems test and implement infrastructure, applications and/or reports, as required, to meet user requirements
• Assist in ensuring that the OPTrust IT development/software/hardware life cycles are adhered to
• Assist in ensuring that the all IT technical related standards are adhered to;
• Develop documentation and guidelines as required for the use of OPTrust IT infrastructure/applications.

4. Performs other related duties, such as:

• Providing IT guidance and co-ordination related to infrastructure/applications to other OPTrust IT staff; maintaining current knowledge of computer and network hardware and software
• Maintaining knowledge of industry standards and new technology practices;
• Assisting other IT team members and providing expertise, as required
• Other duties as assigned.

What You Bring

• 10 years work experience in a related field
• Expert level knowledge in areas of data, security, infrastructure and application architecture
• Demonstrated experience in VMWare, VMWare SRM, Hyper V, EMC San, Barracuda firewalls, Cisco/Meraki, Azure cloud
• Strong scripting and programming background
• Experience with ITIL
• Good understanding and applied experience in Microsoft tools
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good organizational and time management skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills;
• Ability to manage with an eye to proactively planning and avoiding bottlenecks, single points of failure and capacity issues.

Please submit your application via Workday by November 15, 2023.Serving a membership as diverse as ours and investing in a global market means cultivating an environment that embraces inclusion, diversity and equity in everything we do. We know a diversity of backgrounds, cultures and perspectives are critical to creating long-term value. OPTrust is an organization engaged in building on our unique and diverse strengths. If you require an accommodation at any time during the recruitment process, or have preferred pronouns, please send a message to careers@optrust.com, or discuss your needs with the Recruitment Consultant during the telephone screen. We will do our best to work with you and provide appropriate accommodation.We thank all interested applicants, however only those under consideration will be contacted.