Senior Business Analyst – Network & Data Center
Role Overview
Lead business analysis for a complex infrastructure initiative focused on network optimization and a data center management transition.
Serve as a strategic link between business units, engineering teams, and external infrastructure vendors.
Key Skills for This Role
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About the role
Lead business analysis for a complex infrastructure initiative focused on network optimization and a data center management transition.
Serve as a strategic link between business units, engineering teams, and external infrastructure vendors.
Key responsibilities
- Gather and analyze requirements for data center migrations, capacity planning, and network hardware refreshes.
- Evaluate data center workflows, traffic patterns, and circuit use; identify bottlenecks and design scalable architecture pipelines.
- Lead analysis for vendor transitions, colocation migrations, server hardware refreshes, and cloud integration strategies.
- Develop technical documentation, failover runbooks, user stories, and standard operating procedures; coordinate maintenance windows with network technicians.
- Analyze network performance, bandwidth use, and data center power and cooling KPIs; build business cases for upgrades and capital expenditure.
Qualifications and skills
- Minimum 10–15 years of business analysis experience with complex enterprise networking, data center migration, or telecom infrastructure projects.
- Deep familiarity with TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, SD-WAN, firewalls, structured cabling, SAN, and virtualization such as VMware or Hyper-V.
- High proficiency with ITIL, Agile/Scrum, and ITSM platforms such as ServiceNow or Jira.
- Strong hands-on experience with MS Excel for data analysis and MS Visio for topology diagrams.
- A related university degree is preferred.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, root-cause analysis, and stakeholder communication skills.
- Fluent written and spoken English.
Pay and hours
- Pay is $70–$90 per hour.
- Expected hours are 40 per week.
Work location
- Hybrid remote in Toronto, Ontario, with minimal travel between local office and data center sites.
Additional information
The stated job type is full-time, contract; the description does not clarify how these terms relate.
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