Network Engineer

Network Engineer

Location: Toronto, Remote

Duration: 6 Months

Pay Range: C$53 INC

Keywords: Network Engineer, Meraki, Viptela and FortiGate firewall

Skills: Cisco Meraki~FortiGate SD-WAN Experience Required: 5+ Years

Education: The successful candidate will be a highly motivated, self-starting Information Technology professional with a minimum BS/BA degree or equivalent experience. Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in developing, implementing, maintaining, troubleshooting, and supporting infrastructure\network architectures.

Must Have Skills:

• Network Engineer with expertise in Meraki, Viptela and FortiGate firewall
• Strong technical discovery, solution design, and documentation skills.
• Expert-level knowledge of networking protocols, technologies, and standards including TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, QoS, SDN and SD_WAN.
• Strong understanding of network security principles, best practices, and compliance requirements including Firewall, VPNs, IDS/IPS, and encryption.
• Strong understanding on Meraki network design, template & configuration binding.
• Manage and optimize Meraki MX, MS, and MR networks using Meraki Dashboard.
• Fortinet, Cisco and/or Aruba certifications (CCNA, CCNP, CCIE, SDWAN, ACSDP, 300-415 ENSDWI,NSE)
• Cisco Networking Hardware: Routers, Switches, Firewalls (Catalyst, 6509-E, Nexus, etc.)
• Strong hands-on experience with FortiGate firewalls including policy-based routing, static and dynamic routing and redistribution.
• Experience with network analysis and operational monitoring\alerting tools (wireshark, Solarwinds, etc.)
• Ability to productively work under minimal supervision

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain network\connectivity\cloud and associated solutions
• Provide day-to-day operation support, monitoring, maintenance, updates, triage, and troubleshooting for Enterprise Networking environment
• Provide expertise and collaboration on defining enterprise-wide technical design standards for network related technology solutions and propose solutions to leadership
• Create\Maintain\Update enterprise network diagrams and documentation
• Research, design, review, test, and implement network related technologies and solutions
• Engage in solutions research and deployment, systems standards, internet services, capacity planning, Disaster Recovery, platform upgrades\modernization, and process improvement.
• Contribute to design of network related solutions and partner with Information Security and Compliance in review of all solutions against corporate security and compliance standards and requirements
• Design, implement, maintain, and support Network Operational monitoring\alerting platform(s) including Business driven dashboards, metrics, and KPI reporting to facilitate clear communication of network related performance across the enterprise
• IP Address space design
• External facing infrastructure, fault-tolerance, redundancy, DR, etc.
• Work with internal departments and clients to determine requirements and then execute\delegate required plans\steps complete implementation.
• Lead efforts with cross-functional teams on enterprise network impacting initiatives and implementations
• Oversee Network-related projects and initiatives planning and implementation
• Work with required areas and support staff to facilitate appropriate logistical planning, communication, and execution of network related initiatives
• Collaborate across business areas to assure compilation of necessary business requirements from stakeholders
• Review and assess impact of proposed changes to existing environment
• Participate in implementations and support of all open initiatives and implemented network related technology solutions
• Provide Mentorship, Training, Vision
• Provide technical leadership for network related technologies and solutions
• Work with Company leadership to develop medium- and long-term strategies as the company's goals and needs evolve
• Collaborate across the organization to perform solution impact assessment and set strategy for efforts with major business impact
• Maintain strong architectural expertise and knowledge of current and emerging technologies and products, and evaluates for both general and specific usage
• Overseeing test plans, network\connectivity viability reviews, performance metrics design\implementation, and overall network strategy