Lead Network Engineer Jobs

Lead Network Engineer

Onsite location: Montreal, QC (remote accepted for initial 4 to 6 weeks, then onsite)

Duration: 1 year plus extension

Hours: 40 hours per week

Pay Rate: CAD $42.75/hr plus GST/HST if Incorporated

Description:

• As part of the Network Engineering team the engineer is required to collaborate with the Enterprise Computing team, Security team and End-User technologies to understand the applications and provide end to end network solution as per the firm network standards.
• The engineer will be responsible for evaluating, engineering, designing, and troubleshooting enterprise scale Data Centre networks.
• This includes selecting the right platforms, developing Bill of Material (BoM), designing new network topologies, creating, and maintaining Visio diagrams, configuration templates, assigning and maintaining IP address, developing migration plan, and providing weekend escalation support for involved project.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as an escalation for the operating teams during network outages.
• Mentoring and knowledge transfer to team members across the organization. Participating in the weekly design meetings.
• Act as a lead engineer for the Data center design and build.
• Authoring of design documents, engineering standards and creates best practice technical architecture models utilizing knowledge of industry and technical trends.
• Engaging with project managers to develop the execution and test plans for network changes.
• Ability to work both independently and as a team member is essential.
• Strong presentation skills are imperative to be able explain network design, articulate risk, and facilitate decision making.
• Act as a lead network engineer in data center application migration process and ensure full network availability and security during and after migration is completed.
• Strong security focus and experience with Network Security Concepts and Multi-tier Security architectures.