Position: Network Architect & Technical Advisor

Client: Large Private Sector Client

Location: Montreal (Hybrid)

Duration: 16 Months

Background:

Kyndryl are seeking a senior network architect who owns target-state design and acts as design authority and technical escalation point for the engineers doing the hands-on work. This is a design and advisory role - not a hands-on configuration or cutover role.

Key Technologies

- Enterprise network architecture

- BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VRFs, spanning tree

- Firewall policy design & rationalization

- Hybrid cloud connectivity (Azure / AWS)

- Load balancing & DC network services

- CCNP / CCIE / JNCIP

Qualifications

- 11+ years including 4+ years in Architecture / Lead

- Deep expertise in enterprise routing and switching (BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VRFs, spanning tree) across major vendor platforms, sufficient to direct and validate the work of executing engineers.

- Robust firewall design experience, including policy design, rule migration approach and rule base rationalization.

- Demonstrated experience designing and overseeing network migrations and cutovers in production data centre environments.

- Experience with load balancing technologies and network services in a data centre context.

- Proven ability to act as technical escalation point and design authority for a distributed engineering team.





- Ability to produce production-grade design documentation to enterprise standards.

Expected Tasks

- Design target-state network architecture, including routing, switching, segmentation, firewall policy and connectivity topologies.

- Produce network design documentation, including high-level and low-level designs, IP addressing schemes and traffic flow diagrams.

- Provide technical guidance and escalation support to technical SMEs and engineers executing network build, configuration and cutover activities.

- Act as design authority for the network domain, reviewing and approving configurations and migration approaches prior to execution.

- Resolve complex technical issues escalated during migration testing and cutover, providing direction to the executing resources.

- Design hybrid connectivity approaches between on-premises environments and cloud platforms.

- Define network security control requirements with client security teams and validate that designs meet them.

- Review and approve as-built documentation and migration runbooks produced by executing resources for handover.

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- Please note this is for a contract position with one of our clients and not a fulltime employment role with Kyndryl Canada**

📌 Network Architect / Technical Advisor (Montreal)
🏢 Kyndryl
📍 Montreal