Sr. IT Infrastructure Specialist

Sr. IT Infrastructure Specialist: Mercedes-Benz Canada needs fans like you

What it means to be a fan

Everything starts with fans. Mercedes-Benz Canada is the number one luxury automotive company in Canada, seven years in a row. We’re looking for someone who is enthusiastically devoted to Mercedes-Benz. You love our brand and have the drive to learn about the automotive industry. You’re impressed with the Mercedes-Benz legacy and can easily identify with what the star represents. And you’re eager to live Mercedes-Benz values and are ready to add to the story.

How your role will add to the story :

We’re looking for a Sr. IT Infrastructure Specialist. Under the leadership of Mgr. Digital Foundation, this role will be responsible to ensure the Daimler standards for Servers, Printers and software are adhered too, provide Infrastructure architect solutions. Also the role will manage and guide infrastructure support vendors to support and maintain the Virtualized and non-virtualized server environment in all server rooms; to handle any new technical issues presented to the Infrastructure area, such as backups, server incident, this role will managing vendor performance and provide guidance and necessary trainings to support vendors. The role also responsible to provide guidance to vendor to support for non-complex miscellaneous tasks that may come up in the Infrastructure team. Also, this role is the product owner of business digital automation solutions which requires the strive for and be enthusiastic to all innovation ideas and implementation that lead to a high business performance.

A day in the life of:

• Being the product owner of digital technical solutions. Lead frontier technical innovations for business process such as RPA
• Instruct infrastructure support vendor to manage VMware vSphere High Availability, VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance, and VMware vSphere Data Protection using vCenter Server. Instruct infrastructure support vendor to manage VMware to setup, manage and administer Storage; Backup and DR for MB-Canada. Make sure that the provisioning is done correctly. Capacity management, RAID configuration and patching of NetApp filers, managing snapmirror and snapvault. Veeam backup and recovery management. Troubleshoot failed backups and restore jobs. DR management using snapmirror and Veeam.
• Manage infrastructure vendors such as regular performance review, meet ICS requirements, and provide trainings and guidance.
• Instruct infrastructure support vendor to schedule distribution of software packages to target servers through MS Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) required duration and time frame. Validate target lists or run queries to determine available target devices before scheduling the software distribution. Ensure that the Daimler approved software and OS are up to date on Windows servers.
• Provide infrastructure architect solution to MB Canada projects and delivery solutions to project team
• Responsible for the management of all Networking in the infrastructure. Point of contact for firewall and network related topics. Manage Wireless controller for WLAN management and Checkpoint for firewall management. DNS management using QIP and external tools.

M-B Canada requires all new employees to present proof they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 when they start work. Currently, an individual is considered “fully vaccinated” two weeks after receiving the second dose of a Health Canada approved two-dose vaccine, or two weeks after receiving one dose of a Health Canada approved single-dose vaccine. Individuals with medical exemptions preventing them from receiving the vaccine may request an accommodation.

Mercedes-Benz Canada Inc. is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes all applicants including persons with disabilities, visible minorities, women and aboriginals. We thank you for your interest, however, only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted