Network Administrator - Release Management

Location: Scarborough, Toronto

Work Type: Hybrid

Top 3 Required Skills:
1. Release Management
2. Networking and network devices
3. Budget and finance forecasting

Top 3 Preferred Skills:
1. JIRA / Service now
2. Reporting
3. Excel / MPP / Project management

Years of Experience: 5-8 yrs

Role Descriptions:
• Create release plans
• Test checklists or pre post validation (Network and business applications)
• Rollout trackers schedules
• Coordinate contents of the release package
• Create roll-back and recovery plans
• Create release packages and prepare for deployment
• Evaluate and communicate any expected impact to service levels due to release
• Manage Coordinate promotion release into production
• Communicate release progress through success (or reasons for rollback)
• Evaluate release management performance based on established criteria (e.g.| elapsed time| level of automation| percentage of successful on-time releases| etc.)
• Manage Coordinate go no-go release decision making
• Facilitate| request to raise| and record change requests and submit standard intake for PM| Info Sec.| partners business testers| and or additional resources when appropriate
• Manage Coordinate Facilitate Network team members| 3rd party vendors for releases| and business testers (when no PM)
• Manage Coordinate to the Project Assessment| network design| timelines| the budget| quotes execution| and change order requests
• Participation in the development of Project Plan in respect to Network solution delivery (with PMO when appropriate)
• Track NS financials through the life cycle of the project
Essential Skills:
• Create release plans
• Test checklists or pre post validation (Network and business applications)
• Rollout trackers schedules
• Coordinate contents of the release package
• Create roll-back and recovery plans
• Create release packages and prepare for deployment
• Evaluate and communicate any expected impact to service levels due to release
• Manage Coordinate promotion release into production
• Communicate release progress through success (or reasons for rollback)
• Evaluate release management performance based on established criteria (e.g.| elapsed time| level of automation| percentage of successful on-time releases| etc.)
• Manage Coordinate go no-go release decision making
• Facilitate| request to raise| and record change requests and submit standard intake for PM| Info Sec.| partners business testers| and or additional resources when appropriate
• Manage Coordinate Facilitate Network team members| 3rd party vendors for releases| and business testers (when no PM)
• Manage Coordinate to the Project Assessment| network design| timelines| the budget| quotes execution| and change order requests
• Participation in the development of Project Plan in respect to Network solution delivery (with PMO when appropriate)
• Track NS financials through the life cycle of the project
Skills:
• Office 365 Administration
• Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
• CNS_Network Security_Cisco

Experience Required: 6-8