Location: Mississauga, ON, On-site

Language: Strong written and spoken English communication skills

Duration: 3-month contract

About the Opportunity

This is an opportunity for an experienced Cisco Network Specialist to take a technical leadership role supporting complex, business-critical network infrastructure. Working within a large enterprise environment, youll help design, implement, maintain, and continuously improve core infrastructure across WAN, LAN, routing, switching, wireless, firewall, and cloud connectivity technologies.

Youll collaborate with infrastructure specialists, global peers, technology partners, and business teams to translate evolving needs into reliable, scalable solutions. As a senior technical resource, youll also mentor team members, lead complex troubleshooting, and help shape infrastructure standards and roadmaps.

Whats In It for You

Youll join a collaborative technical environment where your expertise and ideas can directly influence infrastructure decisions. This contract offers exposure to enterprise-scale networking, cloud connectivity, emerging technologies, and complex infrastructure projects, while giving you the opportunity to lead, mentor, and solve meaningful technical challenges.

Your Responsibilities

- Youll lead the planning and development of network infrastructure designs that support current and future business requirements.
- Youll use monitoring, alerting, and analytics data to identify trends and recommend corrective actions and future infrastructure improvements.
- Youll collaborate with global teams and technology partners to develop platform roadmaps, evaluate solutions, and guide implementation.
- Youll evaluate infrastructure products through proof of concepts, testing, validation,



and security compliance reviews.
- Youll provide Level 3 support for complex network issues, conduct root cause analysis, manage escalations, and drive resolution within service-level objectives.
- Youll mentor infrastructure specialists and share technical knowledge, standards, and best practices.
- Youll create and maintain network design documentation, build guides, templates, knowledge articles, and technical workarounds.

Skills and Qualifications

- 5+ years of infrastructure project lead experience within complex network environments.
- Cisco CCIE or CCNP Enterprise certification, with strong OSPF, EIGRP, and BGP expertise, or Juniper JNCIS-ENT/JNCIS-MistAI certification.
- Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform fundamentals, including familiarity with cloud connectivity methods and implementation.
- Working knowledge of Fortinet firewalls and firewall security principles.
- Working knowledge of wireless networking principles, with Juniper Mist experience preferred.
- Knowledge of cellular radio boosters and enterprise or warehouse use cases.
- Solid leadership, troubleshooting, communication, documentation, and mentoring skills.

All qualified applicants will receive fair consideration for employment. We welcome individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities including those who identify as women, members of racialized groups, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. If you require an accommodation, please review our accessibility policy and reach out to our accessibility officer with any questions. Our human recruiters review all applications and always make the final hiring decision. On occasion, we also use AI-assisted tools to help review applications.

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