About The Company

VSG Recruitment is supporting a Canadian technology company that develops practical, reliable solutions for complex IP media and IT infrastructure. You will serve as a senior individual contributor and technical authority, building realistic network test environments, reproducing complex failures, analyzing network behaviour, and advising engineering and product teams. This is not a people-management or traditional enterprise IT position.

The role requires someone who enjoys working directly with network equipment, configurations, packet captures, telemetry, traffic, and difficult technical problems. Key Responsibilities

Build and maintain network lab and test environments for product development, investigation, validation, and demonstrations.

Configure and troubleshoot switches, routers, endpoints, VLANs, multicast, QoS, routing, timing systems, and traffic flows.

Reproduce failures involving packet loss, timing, multicast, congestion, misrouting, firmware, configuration changes, and device replacement.

Capture and analyze packets, flow data, telemetry, logs, configurations, monitoring data, and timing information.

Identify root causes, meaningful technical signals, edge cases, and system limitations.

Define test scenarios, expected outcomes, and validation requirements.

Document configurations, system behaviour, test conditions, findings, and recommended solutions.

Advise engineering, product management, leadership, and customer-facing teams.

Support selected customer demonstrations, pilots, and field-validation activities.

Use scripting, APIs, and automation where appropriate.

Required Experience

At least seven years of hands-on experience in network engineering, systems integration, network validation, network performance, field engineering, escalation engineering,



or a related role.

Deep knowledge of switching, routing, VLANs, multicast, QoS, traffic flows, and packet behaviour.

Strong experience configuring and troubleshooting switches, endpoints, and networked devices.

Experience diagnosing complex problems using packet captures, telemetry, logs, flow data, monitoring tools, and direct testing.

Experience building or supporting lab, validation, integration, staging, customer, or field environments.

Ability to reproduce technical problems and create controlled test scenarios.

Solid root-cause analysis, documentation, and communication skills.

Ability to work independently and provide confident technical guidance across teams.

Relevant Technical Experience

Experience in one or more of these areas is valuable: Broadcast, media, or AV-over-IP

Telecommunications or carrier networks

Data centres and high-performance networks

Industrial networking or operational technology

Critical infrastructure

Low-latency network environments

Network monitoring and observability

Equipment validation and interoperability testing

Field engineering or technical escalation

Broadcast or media experience is not required. Strong experience in another complex networked or operational-technology workplace is equally relevant. Preferred Qualifications

SMPTE ST 2110, ST 2022-7, AES67, Dante, NDI, or related technologies

PTP/IEEE 1588, NTP, synchronization, or timing distribution

NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, SNMP, streaming telemetry, logs, or metrics

IGMP, PIM, multicast routing, and traffic engineering

High-throughput, real-time, or low-latency networks

Network observability, performance analytics, or monitoring platforms

Python, SQL, APIs, scripting, automation, or data-processing tools

Network automation or configuration management

📌 Principal Network Systems Engineer (Canada)
🏢 VSG Recruitment
📍 Canada