What are the responsibilities and job description for the IT Manager position at Canary Systems, Inc.?
Canary Systems is an electronic hardware and software engineering and services firm specializing in technology solutions for monitoring risk related to geotechnical and geomechanical structures, e.g bridges, dams, tunnels, roadways, embankments and surface and underground mines.
We are looking to immediately fill a full-time position for IT Manager. They will be responsible for manging our staff laptop/computer inventory, completing our IT onboarding and offboarding workflows, supporting and maintaining our in-house, cloud hosted and client implementations of computing and data collection platforms. These include in-house physical servers, colocated physical servers and cloud infrastructure. Some travel will be required. Applicants with senior-level education and experience are preferred, but we will train the right candidate.
Proximity to our office in New London, NH, for a minimum of one day per week in the office is required.
Salary commensurate with education and experience.
Responsibilities Include:
Managing staff laptop inventory (around 60 laptops in total), including procurement and rebuilds
Provide IT onboarding/offboarding for staff, including training as required
Deploy and manage our collocated server hosting environments
Implement security systems and standards for use with our deployments
Deploy and maintain 24x7 platform monitoring tools such as Zoho Site24x7
Prepare and maintain documentation around our infrastructure and standards
Install and manage our software and databases in these environments
Develop workflows for deploying and managing all infrastructure assets
Provide presentations to internal and external clients
Provide platform support, including training, to internal and external clients
Expertise Required:
General computer and networking hardware expertise
Microsoft Workstation (10, 11) and Server OS’s (2016, 2019, 2022, 2025)
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) and .NET
SQL database systems including Firebird, PostgreSQL
Programming and scripting including SQL, Python, Javascript, VBScript, Powershell
Cloud productivity platforms including Office365, JIRA, Zendesk
Cybersecurity standards and testing such as including SOC1, SOC2, ISO27001
Firewalls, VPN’s, MFA and other access control systems
Person Best Suited to Position:
Excellent communicator
Highly organized
Detail oriented
Self motivated