We are hiring a Network Administrator on behalf of a well-established organization in Montreal.

In this role, you will be Tier 2 technical expert responsible for ensuring the stability, consistency, and operational excellence of enterprise network infrastructure.

As the main level 2 escalation point, this role acts as a technical reference between network administrators, senior network administrators and the Team Leader Network Operations supporting day-to-day operations and the delivery of infrastructure projects.

Your responsibilities: Act as the primary escalation point forplex network incidents, providing advanced troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and critical incident resolution.

Maintain the stability and availability of network infrastructure by handling major incidents affecting LAN, WAN, routing, switching, and firewall environments.

Ensure that network solutionsply with enterprise architecture standards by reviewing technical designs prior to deployment.

Collaborate with the Team Leader Network Operations and multidisciplinary teams to ensure the consistent application of standards and best practices.

Translate business and project needs into scalable network solutions by defining technical, infrastructure, connectivity, and site readiness requirements.





Contribute to project planning by participating in the definition of material schedules (BOMs), statements of work (SOW) and infrastructure requirements.

Drive operational excellence by supporting automation, Dev

Ops, and improved monitoring tools, processes, and network operations.

Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt, standardize network infrastructure, and improve operational efficiency.

Participate in the continuous modernization of the enterprise network to improve performance, resiliency, reliability, and scalability.

Qualifications Minimum of 35 years of experience in enterprise network administration.

Mastery of the fundamentals of IP networks: LAN, WAN, layers 2 and 3, VPN, SDN, DHCP, DNS, etc.

Strong expertise in diagnosing and resolving network problems, both simple andplex.

Positive knowledge of network security, network flows, as well as LAN and WAN security technologies.

Experience in automating networks using scripts.

Experience with network infrastructure observability, monitoring, and management tools.

Significant experience with Cisco and Fortinet solutions; Experience in large network environments is an asset. ITIL certification (asset).

Excellentmunication skills, both in French and English.

Team spirit, sense of responsibility, autonomy and strong results oriented.

📌 Tier 2 Network Administrator (Montreal)
🏢 Hays
📍 Montreal