Stream 1: Team Leader / Stream 2: Technical Advisor

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Assessment accommodation

Positions to be filled: Number to be determined

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

In order to be considered, your application must clearly explain how you meet the following (essential qualifications)

EDUCATION:
Graduation from a two-year program of study from a recognized post-secondary institution with acceptable specialization in computer science, information technology, information management or another specialty relevant to the position to be staffed.

Note:
Indeterminate incumbents in the IT group on December 9, 2021 who do not possess the education prescribed above, are deemed to meet the minimum education standard based on their education, training and/or experience. They must be accepted as having met the minimum education standard whenever this standard is called for when staffing positions in the IT group.
Indeterminate incumbents of positions in the CS group on May 10, 1999, who do not possess the education prescribed above, are deemed to meet the minimum education standard based on their education, training and/or experience. They must be accepted as having met the minimum education standard whenever this standard is called for when staffing positions in the IT group.
At the manager’s discretion, an acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience may serve as an alternative to the minimum education stated above. Whenever the minimum education is met using this alternative, it is met for the specific position only and must be re-assessed for other positions for which this alternative has been specified by the manager.

Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCE FOR BOTH STREAMS :
• Over five (5) years of experience working in Information Technology field.

EXPERIENCE FOR STREAM 1 : TEAM LEAD
• Significant* experience working as a member of an IM/IT project team or operations support team.
• Significant* experience preparing and providing status reports to Senior Management**.

EXPERIENCE FOR STREAM 2 : TECHNICAL ADVISOR
• Significant* experience in completing infrastructure options analysis including providing recommendations to Senior Management**.
• Significant* experience in completing conceptual, logical or physical infrastructure design artefacts (such as IT solution designs) OR experience as part of an operational team in at least two of the following infrastructure disciplines and technologies:
- Midrange (Servers, OS, Application Hosting, Virtualization, Storage)
- Networking (Data Center Network, LAN, WAN, MAN, Load-Balancing)
- Security (Firewall, VPN, Vulnerability Scanning, Sniffing, Risk Assessment, ITSG-22/38/33)
- Infrastructure management, maintenance and support (monitoring, alerting, EITSM, root-cause analysis)
- Application and Foundational Services (Patching, Anti-Virus, Citrix, Active Directory, Programming, Scripting
- Enterprise application (CRM, Peoplesoft, SAP, Dynamics, Oracle, MSSQL)
- Emerging Technologies (Containers, Cloud Hosting, Software Defined Networking)
- Facilities, i.e. the physical infrastructure of the data center
- IT Business analysis

Definitions:
*Significant is defined as minimum two (2) years of relevant experience
**Senior management is defined as Director level and above or private sector equivalent.

The following will be applied / assessed at a later date (essential for the job)

Various language requirements

Information on language requirements

Second Language Writing Skills Self-Assessment
In order to help you decide if you should apply to a bilingual position, an optional self-assessment of your writing skills in your second official language is available for you to take before completing your application.

For more information, please consult:
Unsupervised Internet Test of Second Language Writing Skills

KNOWLEDGE:
• Knowledge of current IM/IT trends

ABILITIES:
• Ability to communicate effectively orally.
• Ability to communicate effectively in writing.

PERSONAL SUITABILITY:
• Strategic thinking
• Judgement
• Adaptability
• Client focus
• Integrity and Respect


Stream 1: Team Leader
• Leadership

Stream 2: Technical Advisor
• Analytical Thinking

The following may be applied / assessed at a later date (may be needed for the job)

ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS
- In support of achieving a diverse workforce, selection may be limited to candidates who self-declare as a member of the following Employment Equity groups: Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, visible minorities, women.
- SSC is committed to providing opportunities across Canada where feasible, and to increasing its regional presence.

Conditions of employment

VACCINATION:
- Vaccination Notice Requirement : All employees of the core public administration are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and attest to their vaccination status unless accommodated based on a medical contraindication, religion, or another prohibited ground for discrimination as defined under the Canadian Human Rights Act.

Operational Requirements:
• Willingness and ability to work overtime on short notice.
• Willingness and ability to travel on occasion.

Security Requirements:
• Reliability
• Secret

Other information

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that reflects the Canadians we serve. We promote employment equity and encourage you to indicate if you belong to one of the designated groups when you apply.

Information on employment equity

Preference

Preference will be given to veterans first and then to Canadian citizens and permanent residents, with the exception of a job located in Nunavut, where Nunavut Inuit will be appointed first.

Information on the preference to veterans

We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.