Alteo is looking for a Network Administrator for a permanent job based in Montreal.*** Remote job from Montreal. Multi-site role with international travel (~10-20%). Spanish is required (full skilled fluency, spoken and written) since the majority of the team is located in south America. ***You will be responsible for operating a network infrastructure across multiple sites, including facilities abroad. We're looking for a hands-on Network Administrator / Technician who is as comfortable racking and cabling equipment as configuring it, and who can work directly with our Spanish-speaking site teams — remotely day to day, and on-site during deployments, upgrades, and escalations.Responsibilities:Deploy, configure, and maintain multi-site network infrastructure: Cisco Catalyst switching and routing (VLANs, trunking, STP, LACP, inter-VLAN routing)Administer pfSense firewalls: rulesets, NAT, site-to-site and remote-access VPNs (IPsec/OpenVPN/WireGuard), high availabilityBuild and maintain Proxmox VE hosts and clusters: VM/container provisioning, storage, backups, virtual networkingTroubleshoot end to end — from the physical layer (cabling, optics, hardware) through switching, routing, and firewall issues — using packet captures, CLI diagnostics, and a structured methodologyAct as the primary technical contact for Spanish-speaking site teams abroad: guide on-site staff through diagnostics and repairs,



and write clear procedures and instructions in SpanishTravel to sites for buildouts, migrations, and escalated incidentsCoordinate with ISPs, vendors, and contractors on circuits, RMAs, and installationsParticipate in planned maintenance windows and an on-call rotationProfile:3–5 years of hands-on network administration or senior technician experience in enterprise environmentsProficiency in Spanish is a must since you will interact with a latin american team on a day to day basisSolid Cisco IOS experience on Catalyst platforms (switching required, routing fundamentals expected)Production experience administering pfSense (or comparable firewall platforms)Experience running Proxmox VE (or comparable hypervisors) in productionStrong, methodical troubleshooting skills — able to isolate faults quickly under pressure and communicate status clearlyFull professional fluency in Spanish, spoken and written, including technical vocabularyValid passport and ability to travel internationally, occasionally on short noticeNice to have:CCNA or CCNPOPNsense, VyOS, MikroTik, or other open-source/alternative network platformsStructured cabling and fiber experience (terminations, optics/DACs, testing)Spreadsheet (Excel, grist, airtable)Monitoring and documentation tooling: Zabbix, LibreNMS, Grafana, NetBox, DataGerryDatacenter or industrial site experience

📌 Network Administrator 4968 (Montreal)
🏢 Alteo
📍 Montreal