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.