213658 Network Validation Technician

Procom is a leading provider of professional IT services and staffing to businesses and governments in Canada.
With revenues over $500 million, the Branham Group has recognized Procom as the 3rd largest professional services firm in Canada and is now the largest “Canadian-Owned” IT staffing/consulting company.

Procom’s areas of staffing expertise include:

• Application Development
• Project Management
• Quality Assurance
• Business/Systems Analysis
• Datawarehouse & Business Intelligence
• Infrastructure & Network Services
• Risk Management & Compliance
• Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
• Security & Privacy

Specialties

• Contract Staffing (Staff Augmentation)
• Permanent Placement (Staff Augmentation)
• ICAP (Contractor Payroll)
• Flextrack (Vendor Management System)

Set up and configure Desktop and Server platforms & Ethernet devices. Install drivers and software for 10/100/1000MB, 10GB and 40GB wired Ethernet controllers, network interface cards, and network devices for functional evaluation/validation and/or customer reported issue reproduction. Communicate and interact with group/product managers, developers, marketing, and other evaluation engineers and technicians. Run prescribed test procedures, accurately document work performed, and submit timely reports.

• Windows 7+ and Windows 2008 Server+, Linux (SLES and/or RHEL), and VMWare ESX Operating System experience including all aspects of setup, config, and network troubleshooting
• Proven experience building and configuring 1 Gigabit and 10 Gigabit LAN environments
• Basic understanding of PC system architecture including both client and server platforms
• Strong work ethic and team orientation
• Experience managing and configuring Layer 2 and 3 Ethernet Devices
• Proven technical troubleshooting and problem-solving experience with a passion for learning technologies
• 3-5 years applicable experience

***Preferred Skills:

• Experience with Ethernet sniffers and/or protocol analysis
• Experience with blade server and chassis managed compute environments
• Test automation/scripting, C/C++ programming, Perl, python, Windows PowerShell
• Network Performance testing
• Chariot, Smartbits, IXIA
• Experience with DOS, uEFI, and Embedded OSes
• Knowledge of IPMI, vPro out of band manageability technologies
• Experience or knowledge with NAS, iSCSI, FCoE technologies
• Experience or knowledge of High Availability computing technologies and RDMA

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE NOT ABLE TO WORK WITH CANDIDATES ON H1B VISAS OR CANDIDATES REPRESENTED BY THIRD PARTIES.