Manning Elliott is a CPA firm with offices located in Vancouver, Burnaby, Surrey, and Abbotsford British Columbia, Canada. We provide personalized accounting and business advisory services to companies operating within a wide range of industries in seven major practice areas: Tax, Private Company, Public Company, NPOs, Business Advisory, Valuations and Specialty.

Since our formation in 1952, Manning Elliott has experienced tremendous growth and development. Our firm consists of 200+ dedicated CPAs and business advisors with years of experience and success.

Purpose of Role:

Provide superb team member experience when dealing with the IT department. This role will include supporting of the network, desktop and server infrastructure at the head office and offices within the lower mainland.

Responsibilities

• Tier 2 – 3 support for desktops and end user devices, network and servers
• Working on IT driven initiatives including upgrades, system builds, network security and other projects.
• Working with other team members for escalation and training
• Maintains a service level for firm’s user base through use of ITSM systems, processes, procedures and policies
• Participating in the IT emergency on-call rotation
• Writing documentation including SOW, SOP, diagrams, build documentation, KB, checklists, runbooks, project documentation
• Overall operational administration of the organizations IT infrastructure including: Firewalls, Exchange, Office 365, Active Directory, Citrix XenApp, Citrix NetScaler, Citrix Studio, Citrix Director, Citrix Storefront, RSA, Backups, VMware, Azure, Monitoring, SAN, Servers, Networking, Security, VPN, Video Conferencing, HPE Nimble dHCI
• Administering with the team the overall security infrastructure including our MDR, EDR, XDR, Firewalls, Security Policies and data governance
• Onsite support when required at the firm’s offices across the lower mainland

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years in infrastructure support roles working with:

o Microsoft servers, Active Directory, Group Policies, SQL, PowerShell

o Azure, Intune, Autopilot, Microsoft Endpoint Defender, Office 365

o VMware, vMotion, vSphere

o Citrix XenApp Server with NetScaler in an application delivery model

o Networking technologies such as firewalls, switches, routing and wireless

o Server hardware such as SAN, NAS, Servers, (HPE Nimble preferred)

o IT security principals and familiarity with the NIST, CIS and MITRE Frameworks

o Backup software’s such as Veeam, Zerto, Azure Site Recovery

• 5 years in end user IT support roles supporting users remotely and in-person
• Graduated from an accredited IT Program or equivalent relevant experience
• Previous experience in a commercial ITSM based ticketing system
• Previous experience with any commercial monitoring system
• Proficient knowledge in the ITIL framework
• Understanding of project management techniques
• Exceptional analytical, conceptual and problem solving ability
• Ability to identify, recommend, develop, implement and support effective technology solutions for all aspects of the organization
• Strong knowledge of IT and Network infrastructure design and concepts
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Strong structured documentation skills with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio
• Knowledge of financial applications considered an asset
• Certifications in any of the following are a big asset: VMware, Aruba, Citrix, Microsoft Azure or 365, CompTIA, ITIL Foundations

What We Offer:

The salary range for this position is $80,000 to $100,000. Individual salaries within this range will be dependent upon skills, experience, and qualifications.

We are one of the largest independent regional firms operating exclusively in British Columbia. We offer an exceptional work environment that allows our team members to enjoy a balanced lifestyle while providing them with opportunities for professional and personal growth. Our attractive salary and benefit package will appeal to talented individuals who share our desire to be the best. If you have strong technical and interpersonal skills and desire a challenging position with a progressive accounting firm, please submit your resume.