Experience: 11+ years, incl. 4+ in architecture / lead.CANDIDATE PROFILEA 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 & SKILLSHybrid cloud connectivity (Azure / AWS)Load balancing & DC network servicesWHAT YOU'LL DODesign 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.REQUIRED EXPERIENCEEleven or more years of enterprise network engineering experience, including at least four years in an architecture or lead engineering capacity.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.Solid firewall design experience, including policy design, rule migration approach and rule base rationalisation.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.NICE TO HAVEHands‐on experience with Azure or AWS networking (VNets, VPCs, ExpressRoute, Direct Connect, transit architectures).Familiarity with network automation approaches using Ansible, Python or Terraform.SD‐WAN or software‐defined data centre networking experience.IDEAL BACKGROUNDDesigning and overseeing network migrations and cutovers in production data centre environments, acting as design authority and escalation point for a distributed engineering team.LANGUAGEEnglish required (written and spoken). French is an asset. #J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 Lead Network Architect (Montreal)
🏢 Accion Labs
📍 Montreal