About the Company

Alaska Communications Systems (ACS) is a full-service telecommunications company headquartered in Anchorage, Alaska that serves needs of consumers, businesses and carriers with data, internet, wireless, long distance and local products. ACS is a publicly traded company, trades on NASDAQ under the symbol ALSK. The track record of ACS has been best in class since its make-over that began in 2004. The team’s credentials, backgrounds and strategic focus are not what you typically find at a company like ours, and we have delivered phenomenal growth for ACS over the past 4 years. The company is now building its own submarine fiber optic network and enhancing other in-state infrastructure to capture a significant share of Enterprise customers’ traffic exiting from and coming to Alaska. This investment will drive the second major growth engine for the company.

The ACS team is a high performance team, driven by delivering top quality service and continuous process improvement, earning customer loyalty each day and thereby generating sector-leading shareholder returns.

If these company attributes are appealing to you, this is the company to join. We invest in people who want growth, challenge, and participation in the shareholder value we create.

Responsibilities 

The Senior Network Administrator administers the Company's corporate IT network and associated systems ensuring optimal performance. This includes but is not limited to installation, configuration, tuning, monitoring, and identification and resolution of problems. The Sr. Network Administrator will be assigned tasks, projects, and responsibilities with greater sensitivity, complexity and impact to the organization characterized. Expected to assume a leadership and mentoring role and reliance upon supervisory support should be limited to objective definition and unusual situations.

• Design, deploy and support the internal Corporate IT Network to ensure optimal performance and customer requirements and service level agreements are meet.

• Develop work breakdown structures for successful project estimating.

• Work closely with IP operational support staff, project groups, and business partners to ensure proposed and implemented solutions meet IT standards, customer requirements and are operated in such a manner to meet the agreed level of service.

• Evaluate, monitor and make recommendations to ensure optimal network performance.

• Develop and maintain IT network documentation, polices, procedures and standards.

• Provide Tier Three support escalation from Network Administrator(s) for problem diagnosis and resolution.

Required Education and Experience

• Associate degree in computer science, MIS or equivalent. Relevant job experience may be substituted for degree requirement. Current Cisco CCNA required,additional Cisco certifications such as CCNP, CCDP and CCSP are preferred.

• Five or more years of general IT experience of which at least four must have been as a Network Administrator working with Cisco switches, routers, firewalls and VPNs. F5 BIG-IP, IDS/IPS and VOIP experience is preferred. Regulatory compliance directives such as PCI-DSS, SOX and Red Flag and best practices such as ITIL preferred. 

For considerartion for this position please send your current Word formatted resume to Jane MacRae: jane.macrae@acsalaska.com

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