Cloud & Infrastructure Analyst

What do you think of when you hear the name MNP? Most likely tax and accounting, but as one of Canada’s largest consulting organizations, we’re so much more! We’re also serious about technology.

Make an impact with our Digital Solutions team as a Cloud & Infrastructure Analyst. This diverse team of tech-savvy problem solvers has expertise and delivery depth across client platforms, applied data and analytics, applications and cloud and business platforms solutions. As a trusted advisor, you’ll gather, secure and organize meaningful insights to design digital solutions that meet clients’ evolving needs.

At MNP Digital, we’re a team of highly skilled and creative thinkers that continuously support and learn from each other. We pride ourselves on translating our clients’ challenges into real results by leveraging technology – and that all starts with having the right people to deliver. We’ve created an environment where you’ll continuously grow, always have a voice and collaborate on work that’s meaningful and fulfilling. If you’re ready to take your career into your own hands, you’ve come to the right place.

MNP embraces a work from office environment that embraces collaboration and learning. The ideal candidate would be based in Edmonton.

Responsibilities

• Help enable public cloud platforms for our clients while primarily focusing on Azure and Microsoft 365.
• Understand business goals and drivers and translate those into an appropriate technical solution.
• Create innovative solutions leveraging cloud platforms to solve client business challenges.
• Research, analyze, recommend and select technical approaches for solving difficult and challenging development and integration problems.
• Design, build, test, and deploy highly scalable and resilient cloud-based artifacts.
• Learn and adopt new tools and techniques to increase performance, automation and scalability.
• Share the leading practices with internal team members and clients.
• Collaborate as part of larger delivery teams, including project managers, business analysts, architects, developers, and other professionals.
• Work with many areas of our client’s technologies, including but not limited to networking, Endpoint (Server and Laptop/ Desktop), compute, storage, information security, risk, enterprise identity and access management, and security operations.
• Be customer-oriented, diligent, proactive, focused on achieving customer’s business objectives as a top priority

Skills and Experience

• Completed post-secondary education in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a comparable combination of education and experience
• 3+ years of project experience migrating and deploying cloud-based solutions with a focus on Azure and Microsoft 365.
• Project experience implementing core infrastructure, networking and cloud-based services.
• Deep product knowledge and understanding of product features, including:
• • Azure
  • M365, Intune, AVD
  • Migrations to M365 and Azure
  • IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS Solutions
  • Networking (Fortinet, Checkpoint, Cisco)
  • Identity
  • Virtualization
  • Hybrid Cloud Solutions
• Knowledge and understanding of High Availability and Disaster Recovery principles, patterns and usage.
• An understanding of cloud ecosystem and leading-edge cloud emerging technologies specially Microsoft platform
• Experience configuring and tuning cloud-hosted solutions and platforms.
• Experience supporting production applications or workloads in a cloud-based environment.
• Experience with performance analysis, troubleshooting and remediation techniques.
• Experience with networking principles and technologies (DNS, Load Balancers, Reverse Proxies, WAF etc.).
• Practical experience sizing hardware and storage needs.
• Strong analytical problem-solving ability.
• Strong presentation, written and verbal communication skills.
• Be a self-starter with the ability to work independently or as part of a project team with limited supervision.
• Experience collaborating across multiple functional/technical teams to deliver a project.
• Demonstrate growth mindset, enthusiastic about learning new technologies quickly and applying the gained knowledge to address business problems.
• The candidate must be able to undergo a criminal record check and federal security clearance screening
• Certifications in Azure and Microsoft 365 will be considered an asset
• Some occasional local and national travel may be required.

MyRewards@MNP 

With a focus on high-potential earnings, MNP is proud to offer customized rewards that support our unique culture and a balanced lifestyle to thrive at work and outside of the office. You will be rewarded with generous base pay, vacation time, 4 paid personal days, a group pension plan with 4% matching, voluntary savings products, bonus programs, flexible benefits, mental health resources, exclusive access to perks and discounts, professional development assistance, MNP University, a flexible ‘Dress For Your Day’ environment, firm sponsored social events and more!

Diversity@MNP

We embrace diversity as a core value and celebrate our differences. We believe each team member contributes unique gifts and amplifying their potential makes our business stronger. We encourage people with disabilities to apply!