Network Analyst

Amerisure is a leading regional property and casualty mutual insurance company. We provide insurance for workers’ compensation, contractor and manufacturer programs, commercial property and coverage enhancements for manufacturing, contracting, and commercial enterprises.

Since 1912 Amerisure has built its success on its partner relationships with its policyholders, agencies and employees.

The benefits, compensation, training and opportunities to grow that we offer have made Amerisure one of the “Best Places To Work” in our home city, as honored by Crain’s Detroit Business. We are very proud of the benefits component of our Total Compensation program.

Amerisure is currently recruiting for a Network Analyst to join our team.

Primary responsibility is to support the network infrastructure at Amerisure. This will take up about 60% of the time. Secondary responsibility is to support the Amerisure Windows Server enviroment. Responsibilities include installations, configuration changes and project coordination with internal IT groups and external service vendors.

Act as company liaison to vendors and end users of assigned elements of system hardware and software to report and resolve problems. Communicate all relevant information effectively, on hardware and software installations and upgrades to all staff whose activities or assignments may be impacted.

Maintain a high level of knowledge of current industry and technology issues required to employ new ideas to solve corporate business problems. Must possess the ability to diagnose and resolve problems in areas of expertise quickly and effectively.

Other duties as assigned by management.
REQUIREMENTS
MUST HAVE:

5+ years of Network Administration experience
Telecom / WAN experience
Cisco experience (CCNA, CCNP preferred)
Experience with Network Monitoring tools
Experience with VPN
Experience with Firewall (Checkpoint preferred)
Excellent communication skills
Windows 2003 Server Support (highly prefer MCSE)

PLUSES

Project management experience
Exchange and Active Directory 2003
Experience with SMS or some other software management tool
IIS and/or .NET
Cluster Configurations
Disk Storage Management
Email/file archival
VERITAS Netbackup software
Citrix experience
VMWare experience
Experience with Trend Micro Security products
FatPipe and Big IP experience