Senior Technical Support Specialist 1 (Audio Visual)

Job ID: 52187

Job Category: Information & Technology

Division & Section: Technology Services, Enterprise Services & Operations

Work Location: Metro Hall, 55 John St, Toronto, ON M5V 3C6

Job Type & Duration: Temporary, Full-time, 12 months vacancy

Salary: $112,280.00 - $149,247.00 (2024 rate)

Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week

Affiliation: Non-Union

Number of Positions Open: 1

Posting Period: 08-04-2025 to 22-04-2025

Job Summary:

To provide Audio Visual services in regard to infrastructure, service resilience, and AV business continuity concepts. This includes systems availability, utilization and integration of a corporate-wide infrastructure that crosses many departmental boundaries such as components of existing hardware and software platform, enterprise systems management tools, enterprise audio visual systems, performance and security requirements and to design and build audio visual control centres and recommend upgrades or acquisitions.

Major Responsibilities:

• Designs, architects, analyzes and implements detailed plans and recommends policies/procedures regarding program specific requirements for Audio Visual.
• Supervises, motivates and trains assigned cross divisional project staff, ensuring effective teamwork, high standards of work quality and organizational performance, continuous learning and encourages innovation in others.
• Supervises the day to day project or operations of all assigned staff including the scheduling, assigning and reviewing of work. Authorizes and co-ordinates vacation and overtime requests. Monitors and evaluates staff performance, salary increments, hears grievances and recommends disciplinary action when necessary.
• Provides input into and administers assigned budget, ensuring that expenditures are controlled and maintained within approved budget limitations.
• Provides advice and consultation to business users and other technical staff to determine requirements, research on solutions, evaluate alternatives, and to recommend policies, data integration, data security, network infrastructure, common software required, and the final product acquisition.
• Leads Audio Visual technical project or operating teams comprised of members from other department and/or sections of the division, to determine requirements, research, evaluate, develop and/or acquire, implement and provide technical support for enterprise software products to support business requirements.
• Provides senior level support of the enterprise Audio Visual software and hardware installation, upgrades, configuration, account management, security administration, capacity planning and performance tuning.
• Performs hardware, software, appliance and related tools installation, configuration, maintenance and upgrades. Also, performs account management, system monitoring and security services on the systems. This includes the creation of City wide policies and standards, and enforcement of the standards relating to users account creation and the access permissions for the users.
• Provide enterprise wide backup and disaster recovery services to meet the business recovery requirements. Responsible for the capacity planning, security measurement, and performance tuning of the overall infrastructure, including Internet, Intranet and Extranet environments.
• Develops, manages and reports on detailed project plans. Ensures effective corporate standard system security and internal processing controls (audit controls) are maintained.
• Impacts change management for both hardware and software, and manages vendor relations in the case of external hardware, systems software, network and/or service acquisitions. Provides risk assessment and it's potential impact on enterprise systems and users.
• Ensures timeliness and completion of corporate projects by providing project management and project planning. Influences project scope, monitors critical success factors, co-ordinates projects resources and reports on project milestones/deliverables.
• Leads in the preparation of Request for Proposal (RFP), Request for Quotation (RFQ), and Request for Information (RFI) and participates in the evaluation and selection of technical solutions.
• Establishes City wide standards related to the operability and high availability of corporate data center software/hardware products through the identification and resolution of service or performance problems and initiates changes to enhance problem avoidance.
• Reviews, evaluates, recommends and comments on emerging Audio Visual technologies and business innovation for improving service, reducing costs and enhancing efficiency on internal service improvement, cost efficiencies to the public.
• Works with highly confidential information; available 7x 24 while on-call to respond to critical page alerts.
• Develops technical criteria of the overall mass storage and storage area networks (SAN) to meet the open systems storage requirements of the corporate consolidated data centre.

Key Qualifications:

Your application for the role of Senior Technical Support Specialist 1 (Audio Visual) should describe your qualifications as they relate to:

Post-secondary education in Audio Visual, and/or other related program and/or combination of education and experience.

Considerable experience leading, coordinating, and facilitating large audio visual programs to deliver tangible, business-critical outcomes including creating audio visual control centres.

Considerable experience preparing and presenting project communication materials to senior management using clear and effective business language.

Considerable experience developing and maintaining project documentation (action plans, work schedules, resource plans, etc.), requirements (both business and technical), and procurement documents (RFX, NCP, Contracts, Quotations, etc.).

Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues, service teams, internal and external stakeholders such as clients and suppliers.

Knowledge of AV technology infrastructure, service resilience, and AV business continuity concepts

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