Infrastructure Specialist

We are looking for an IT Infrastructure Specialist to join our dynamic team of smart, positive, and passionate people who are appreciated for their unique talents and empowered to do their jobs well.

As the IT Infrastructure Specialist, you will work as part of the Research and Development team but will utilize your expertise to provide support to all of the SmartWorks departments, including Sales, Professional Services, and Support. We are a fully distributed workforce, with all of our management and staff working remotely from their homes, and we’ve operated this way for several years.

The successful candidate can be located anywhere in Canada and must be comfortable with working in the Pacific timezone only.

What your Impact will be:

• Manage the SmartWorks hosted client application systems and internal R&D development systems, databases, networking and storage

• Provide primary Operating System and Database support for our customers

• Development and maintenance of automated unit test suites

• Installation, configuration, and maintenance of our QA infrastructure

• Perform bug fixes and other source code maintenance tasks

• Design testing plans and strategies for different types of testing

• Work with the sales team to provide technical details for proposals

• Remotely install and configure hardware, operating system, and database platforms for our application during implementation projects

What we are looking for:

• 5+ years of relevant production environment work experience

• Must have experience supporting the Linux OS (Red Hat Enterprise Linux / Centos, or other)

• Network Administration, including firewalls and VPN’s.

• College diploma or University degree in computer sciences, or a related technical field

• Experience with Cloud-based virtual systems, networking and storage

What would make you stand out:

• Expertise working with relational databases (Oracle or PostgreSQL, or other)

• Expertise using Terraform and Ansible

About us:

SmartWorks is a big advocate of Diversity & Inclusion. SmartWorks empowers utilities to navigate change and unleash the potential of the smart infrastructure. At SmartWorks we are committed to delighting our customers and we do that by ensuring our customers receive maximum enduring value from their investment in our solutions. SmartWorks’ MeterSense Meter Data Management (MDM) and SmartWorks Compass Data Analytics software solutions are essential components to enable the smart grid by intelligently processing and analyzing the extreme quantities of data produced from Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI).

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