Salary
💰 CA$80,455 - CA$105,598 per year
Tech Stack
AnsibleCloudFirewallsPythonSwitching
About the role
- Engage in architecture and design of complex network solutions (campus, data center, WAN/SD-WAN, wireless, cloud).
- Engage at all levels — consult with client stakeholders, architects, and technical SMEs to align solutions to business strategy.
- Engage in implementation — ensure best practices are followed, and provide hands-on as required
- Enhance security — Engage in design and implement solutions with next-gen firewalls, NAC, segmentation, and zero-trust architectures.
- Support escalations — serve as an escalation point for complex troubleshooting and problem resolution.
- Contribute to pre-sales — participate in solutioning, estimates, and proposals alongside account teams.
- Mentor and coach junior consultants and act as a subject matter expert in client and internal forums.
- Produce high-quality documentation (HLDs, LLDs, as-builts, runbooks, transition to operations).
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience designing and delivering enterprise networking solutions.
- Proven expertise in routing and switching (MPLS, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, VRF, spanning tree, VLANs).
- Deep knowledge of firewalls, IDS/IPS, and secure gateways.
- Strong background in wireless networking.
- Experience with NAC platforms.
- Hands-on experience with SD-WAN technologies.
- Exposure to cloud networking and hybrid connectivity.
- Skilled at producing architecture diagrams, HLDs/LLDs, and design documentation.
- Strong communication and client-facing skills — comfortable engaging with executives as well as technical teams.
- Advanced vendor certifications: Cisco CCNP/CCIE, Palo Alto PCNSE, Aruba ACNP/ACDX (preferred).
- Experience with network automation, orchestration, and scripting (Python, Ansible) (preferred).
- Familiarity with zero-trust frameworks and enterprise security standards (preferred).
- Consulting or pre-sales experience in a professional services environment (preferred).