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.

- Strong 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 setting 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