ENTERPRISE TECHNICAL SUPPORT SPECIALIST

  • Job ID: 56712
  • Job Category: Information & Technology
  • Division & Section: Technology Services, Enterprise Services & Operations
  • Work Location: 703 Don Mills Rd., North York, ON, M3C 3N3
  • Job Type & Duration: Full-Time, Permanent Vacancy
  • Hourly Rate: $50.41 - $55.24
  • Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week
  • Affiliation: L79 Full-time
  • Number of Positions Open: 1
  • Posting Period: 12-Sep-2025 to 26-Sep-2025 


Job Summary:


Reporting to the Senior Technical Support Specialist / Supervisor, Microsoft team (MS team), the Enterprise Technical Support Specialist participates in the optimization, implementation, administration of servers and ongoing support for Microsoft platform solutions.


Major Responsibilities:

  • Performs analysis of enterprise software, hardware and transmission facility using diagnostic tools to ensure the optimum operation and maintenance of technology solutions;
  • Ensures proactive action is taken for the operation, installation and support of the enterprise systems and solutions.
  • Maintains security on all enterprise server hardware, software and network, including set up, revision and cancellation of securities.
  • Monitors enterprise systems, products and network usage, performance and capacity. Performs trend analysis for system improvements.
  • Performs enterprise-wide user accounts administration including addition, deletion and change of user accounts according to approved policy, standards and procedures.
  • Responds to user inquiries, investigates and analyzes problems and develops solutions and/or action plans.
  • Conducts, updates and improves reviews of documentation, manuals, standards and procedures.


Key Qualifications:

Your application for the role of Enterprise Technical Support Specialist should describe your qualifications as they relate to:

 

  1. Post-secondary education in computer science or a related discipline, or the approved equivalent combination of education and/or experience.
  2. Extensive working knowledge of Microsoft server technologies with extensive experience in an enterprise, large infrastructure environment comprised of at least 1,000 Microsoft Servers, supporting Microsoft Windows Server 2025/2022/2019/2016/2012 environments.
  3. Extensive working knowledge of PowerShell, WSUS & monitoring tools.
  4. Experience with PCI DSS v 3.x, CIS hardening, BatchPatch, Crowdstrike, Tenable, FIM, Splunk and Ansible.
  5. Experience designing and deploying Windows 2025/2022/2019/2016/2012 clustering Services, secured and hardening Windows 2025/2022/2019/2016/2012 Server OS.
  6. Experience working in a multiple Server Operating Systems (Windows 2025/2022/2019/2016/2012, VMware ESXi, AIX/Linux/UNIX) environment.
  7. Experience in Project Management principles and methodology including identification of requirements, resource allocation, estimating timelines, SOW’s and meeting targets.

 

You must also have:

  • Experience supporting, IaaS and PaaS experience would be a definite asset.
  • Excellent technical skills to install and configure enterprise Microsoft Windows 2016/2012 enterprise class servers, and associated software/peripheral equipment in a diverse infrastructure following established change/problem management principles and practices.
  • Demonstrated knowledge using some of the following or equivalent technologies: WSUS, HP OMi, SiteScope, xMatter, Asset Manager, uCMDB, Crowdstrike, Tenable, Splunk, Vectra A/I, PAM, MSSQL Server, M365, MS Office Suite (including MS Project and MS PowerPoint), HTML, Java, Visual Basic, Crystal Reports, XML, Oracle RDBMS and WebSphere.
  • Excellent problem solving, leadership, facilitation, interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Demonstrated understanding of RFI/P/Q procurement procedures, and creation/enforcement of SLAs and OLAs.
  • Strong conceptual, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
  • Proven commitment to customer service, performance quality and continuous improvement.
  • Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills to provide customer facing support, prepare technical documentation and reports on problems and to deal effectively with all levels of management and staff.
  • Willing and available to be “On-Call” in a rotation basis and work shifts in workdays and weekends.

 

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