Network Administrator

At Community Financial System, Inc. (CFSI), we are dedicated to providing our customers with friendly, personalized, high-quality financial services and products. Our retail division, Community Bank, N.A., operates more than 200 customer facilities across Upstate New York, Northeastern Pennsylvania, Vermont and Western Massachusetts. Beyond retail banking, we also offer commercial banking, wealth management, investment management, insurance and risk management, and benefit plan administration.

Just as our employees are committed to helping our customers manage their finances, we're committed to our employees. After all, they make it happen for our customers every day.

To ensure our people can enjoy long and successful careers here at CFSI, we offer competitive compensation, great benefits, and professional development and advancement opportunities. As an equal-opportunity workplace and affirmative-action employer, we celebrate and support a diverse workplace for the benefit of all: our employees, customers and communities.

Our Technology Services department is looking for a seasoned Network Administrator to join our Networking team. Our ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5 years of experience in a Network Administrator role supporting a complex enterprise WAN/LAN environment.

Responsibilities:

• Work with Network/Network Security Team & Telecommunications to evaluate and test new technologies and processes that facilitate and enhance networking capabilities.
• Assist in the design, implementation & maintenance and review of corporate network routers and switches.
• Provision, deploy, configure, troubleshoot, and administer organization network equipment.
• Hands on experience with layer 2 and layer 3 network devices.
• Assist with review and mitigation of network vulnerabilities.
• Maintain inventory of network device assets, Subnet and IP Address assignments.
• Develop and maintain network diagrams for new and existing network deployments
• Help conduct forensic analysis on security related events per incident response guidelines.
• Attend ongoing, corporate sponsored training of key job related software/hardware solutions.
• Perform any other tasks or assignments as deemed necessary by the organization.
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time as needed.
• Maintain proficient knowledge of, and demonstrate ongoing compliance with all laws and regulations applicable to this position, ensure ongoing adherence to pertinent policies, procedures, and internal controls, and meet all job-specific training requirements in a timely fashion

Location: This position is on-site at our East Syracuse Data Center with a hybrid work schedule option.

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years of enterprise Network Administrator experience.
• Proficiency in advanced network switch, router and wireless AP configuration and deployment.
• Proficiency in IPv4 Network addressing, Subnetting and VLAN configuration.
• Extra consideration will be given to those candidates with experience in Meraki and CISCO Switches, CISCO ISE, CISCO ACI, CISCO UCS, Nutanix AHV, Nutanix Flow and SDWAN Configuration.

Additional Skills:

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills for working with IT, security, and business stakeholders.
• Project technical task management
• Network Diagram and documentation skills

Education, Training and Requirements:

• A degree in Computer Science or related discipline is strongly desired. Proven field experience in lieu of a degree is acceptable. All applicants must be 18 years of age or older.

Compensation: Commensurate with experience plus potential for annual merit increase. In addition to your competitive salary, you will be rewarded benefits including: 11 paid holidays, paid vacation, Medical, Vision & Dental insurance, 401K with generous match, Pension, Tuition Reimbursement, Banking discounts and the list goes on!

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be required to stand, walk or sit. Use hands and fingers, handle or feel, reach with hands or arms, and speak and hear. The employee may occasionally be required to lift and or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and the ability to focus.

The Company is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

The Company will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with a disability. If you have a physical or mental impairment and would like to request an accommodation with respect to the application process, please contact the Human Resources Department.