Senior Network Engineer
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Position: Network Engineering - Team Lead
Location: Toronto (Hybrid) - 3 days onsite per week
Duration: Six Months (Potential for extension)
Position Summary
The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for the design, implementation, operational support, and continuous improvement of enterprise network infrastructure across on-premises, colocation, and cloud environments. This role provides senior-level technical leadership across routing, switching, wireless, firewall, SD-WAN, segmentation, and cloud networking platforms.
The engineer ensures high availability, security, performance optimization, and operational compliance within a 24/7 production environment. This position serves as a technical escalation point and contributes to lifecycle management, capacity planning, operational governance, and hybrid cloud network strategy.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and support enterprise network infrastructure across on-premises, Equinix colocation, and AWS/Azure cloud environments.
- Provide 24/7 Incident and Problem Management support, including on-site response when required.
- Monitor and respond to alerts across routing, switching, firewall, wireless, SD-WAN, and cloud networking platforms.
- Perform proactive health checks, performance optimization, and capacity management.
- Execute failover procedures and participate in Disaster Recovery (DR) testing.
- Provision and manage carrier circuits and Equinix cross-connects.
- Provide on-site rack/stack, hardware support, and structured cabling.
- Administer hardware, software, OS, and firmware upgrades, patching, and vulnerability remediation.
- Manage firewall, VPN, SD-WAN, and Illumio segmentation policies with proper governance and compliance controls.
- Manage certificate and key rotation/renewal across network and security platforms.
- Follow disciplined ITSM processes for Incident, Problem, and Change Management.
- Act as a senior technical escalation point for complex network incidents.
- Support Cisco routing and switching, Cisco Wireless, Palo Alto firewalls and Prisma Access, SD-WAN (Palo Alto or VeloCloud), Cisco ISE, Cisco DNAC, and SolarWinds Orion platforms.
Qualifications
- Minimum 5+ years of enterprise network engineering experience.
- Proven experience operating in high-availability, mission-critical production environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with:
- Cisco routing and switching
- Cisco Wireless infrastructure
- Palo Alto firewalls and Prisma Access
- SD-WAN technologies (Palo Alto or VeloCloud)
- Cisco ISE and Cisco DNAC
- SolarWinds Orion or comparable monitoring platforms
- Strong experience with hybrid cloud networking (AWS and Azure).
- Deep knowledge of TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, VLANs, QoS, IPsec, SSL VPN, and network security architecture.
- Strong understanding of carrier connectivity, colocation deployments, and cross-connect provisioning.
- Familiarity with infrastructure automation and configuration management practices is an asset.
- Industry certifications such as CCNP/CCIE, Cisco Wireless, PCNSE, or AWS certifications are preferred.
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