Network support technician

Overview

Languages

English

Education

• College/CEGEP
• or equivalent experience

Experience

1 year to less than 2 years

On site

Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Maintain, troubleshoot and administer the use of local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), mainframe networks and computer workstations and peripheral equipment
• Evaluate and install computer hardware, networking software and operating system software
• Provide problem-solving services to network users
• Implement data, software and hardware security procedures
• Perform routine network start up and close down and maintain control records
• Perform data backups and disaster recovery operations
• Set up local area networks and connections to the Internet
• Implement network traffic and security monitoring software, and optimize server performance
• Modify Web pages, applets and scripts
• Perform Web-server backup and recovery operations

Additional information

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Attention to detail

Personal suitability

• Accurate
• Client focus
• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Excellent oral communication
• Organized
• Team player