Application & Infrastructure Analyst II - Intermediate Infrastructure Analyst

The Edmonton Police Service is seeking an experienced infrastructure professional to provide technical leadership and hands-on delivery across enterprise infrastructure. Reporting to the Manager - Infrastructure Section, the position designs, implements and supports secure, resilient services across data centres, server and storage platforms, virtualization, networking, Microsoft 365, Azure and identity services.

Responsibilities will include\:

• Provide subject-matter expertise and Tier 3 operational support across Windows Server, Microsoft 365, Azure, Active Directory, storage, virtualization, server hardware, networking, firewalls, PKI, VPN, backup, disaster recovery and data centre services.
• Design, implement, troubleshoot, document and maintain secure, resilient and supportable infrastructure solutions that protect service availability and corporate data.
• Review platform lifecycle, vendor updates and operational performance; standardize architectures, improve fault tolerance and remove single points of failure.
• Assess business and technical requirements and translate them into secure, highly available, scalable and disaster-recoverable infrastructure designs.
• Conduct market research, technology assessments, vendor evaluations and proofs of concept, and prepare objective recommendations, architecture diagrams and governance material.
• Represent Infrastructure Section at change advisory meetings and recommend whether proposed changes should be approved, revised or rejected.
• Participate in infrastructure projects from planning and solution design through implementation, testing, transition to operations and documentation.
• Provide technical guidance and collaborate with project teams, infrastructure analysts, stakeholders, suppliers and vendors to deliver integrated infrastructure outcomes.
• Evaluate and apply emerging hardware, software and cloud capabilities where they provide clear operational benefit and can be supported securely through their lifecycle.