Lead Network Specialist

3 days ago

Waterloo, Canada isgSearch Internal Full time

IT - Application & Software Development
Waterloo, ON
Permanent
Sep 10, 2025

**What you will be doing**:

- Lead the design, implementation, and management of the company’s enterprise data networking systems and platforms.
- Manage and prioritize the workload planning and resource assignment for team members; also responsible for mentoring, training and escalation support for team members.
- In support of the Manager, actively participate in hiring and onboarding as well as contribute technical performance assessments of team members.
- Design and implement data network infrastructure and security services to ensure the effective uptime to meet a 24x7 business systems infrastructure.
- Recommend, develop and set network operations and management controls, processes, policies, and standards for the Company.
- Ensure network infrastructure is designed, implemented and managed to meet necessary security, performance, capacity, demand and availability requirements.
- Establish, monitor and meet key performance indicators in support of IT infrastructure and Company operational metrics.
- Support response to networking and shared infrastructure platforms incidents (including highly critical, performance impacting) and problems.
- Jointly responsible for asset, vendor, and financial management activities related to data networking systems.
- Actively participate in IT infrastructure, architecture and services community.
- Prepare IT to networking and shared infrastructure platforms presentations and management information and communicates to all levels within in the company up to and including Sr. Management
- **What you will bring**:

- Significant experience within IT with exposure to a senior data network management/design role.
- Arista, Juniper, Cisco or similar technical certifications.
- GIAC or similar security certifications a strong asset.
- ITIL v3 Foundations certification a strong asset.
- Proficiency/expertise in public cloud networking (Azure/AWS/O365)
- Expert knowledge and experience designing and managing an enterprise network environment, inclusive of WANs, LANs, WLANs, VPNs, DNS, and web services.
- Expert knowledge and experience designing and managing perimeter network security capabilities (Palo Alto/Akamai/Netskope)
- Strong knowledge and experience unified fabric technologies and network convergence (voice/data/video).
- Expert knowledge of and experience with network systems management processes and practices including monitoring, scripting, automation, IaC and maintenance.
- Strong knowledge and experience with network workload shifting, policy
- based orchestration and network virtualization.
- Strong understanding of overall enterprise data center and hosting technologies (with focus on Microsoft and VMWare) and the implications to networking.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with focus and attention to detail.
- Strong innovator and critical thinker.
- Strong communication (written, verbal, presentation) and negotiation skills and experience with conveying complex, technical information to non-technical audiences.
- An ability to handle extremely critical and sensitive information with the strictest confidentiality and privacy.
- Solid experience with resource management as it pertains to scheduling, project execution and daily operations.
- An outstanding team player, focused on customer service excellence, technical execution, diligence to the process, and doing the right thing.

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