Senior Network Designer (Network Modernization Program)

- Contract Opportunity - 12-month term
- Possibility of Extensions: Yes
- Hybrid Work - 3 days/week at the Hamilton / Markham / Toronto offices required. Meetings could be in the GTHA
- Work Hours: 7 Hours a Day or 35 hours/week, Monday to Friday

The Agency is undertaking various network and network security modernization initiatives to support secure, reliable, and scalable connectivity across its enterprise and province-wide network services. The Senior Network Designer will provide architecture and design expertise to strengthen network services, support integration across on-premises and cloud environments, and align solutions with business and security requirements. The resource will support assigned projects and additional network and network security-related initiatives identified during the engagement.

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- Responsible for creating architectures, roadmaps, and plans for the interconnection of multiple Agency products and services in the context of Provincial system integrations and overall Provincial strategic objectives.
- Provide technical expertise as required on any ongoing network and network security initiatives
- Guides and influences portfolios and partners to align solutions to the Agency’s digital vision considering provincial, national, and international mandates.
- Using an automation-first approach, develops visionary solutions, as well as the tactical approaches to deliver them, for complex provincial and regional initiatives that meet customer needs and timelines, while adhering to overall enterprise architecture vision and organizational business plans.
- Reduces current and future costs across local, provincial,



and national initiatives by identifying misalignments, duplication of efforts, and other opportunities for improvement in the architecture and escalates, proposes, and drives to deliver practical, efficient, and reusable solutions.
- Solve complex problems that span multiple assets and promote architecture patterns and principles to ensure reusability and maintainability.
- Develop and design the VNA Cloud connectivity in support of centralizing the digital imaging repositories for OCInet
- Ability to gather, review, and provide feedback to business requirements.
- Providing insights and recommendations based on network modernization and connectivity strategies across other industries (i.e., banking, retail, telecommunications, airlines, etc.)
- Contribute to the architectural design for ONE Network (Next Gen) in preparation for network modernization and any procurements
- Architectural design for the VNA Cloud connectivity and migration strategy
- Design of ISE deployment, including sample configuration and deployment models for the different types of devices/users that will potentially connect
- Network automation initiatives that achieve measurable improvements in provisioning, configuration management, compliance validation, and operational support efficiency

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Demonstrated deliverables from current and previous contracts may be provided as formal documents, review comments, working-session outputs, annotated artifacts, decision notes, issue logs, or other written outputs accepted.

Ideal Resource / Must-Have experience & skills:

- WAN Architecture & Transformation: The candidate has End-to-End Architecture Delivery (Strategy → Migration)
- Cloud Connectivity (Hybrid/Multi-Cloud): The candidate has designed Direct Connect / ExpressRoute, Transit architectures, multi-cloud integration (AWS + Azure)
- Secure Architecture (SASE / Zero Trust Architecture Expertise): Demonstrated ability to apply standard security controls (firewalls, segmentation)
- Automation and AIOps: Led the implementation of Automation and AIOps solutions that delivered measurable operational efficiencies
- Ability to integrate WAN with contemporary security controls
- Familiarity with monitoring/observability platforms for WAN performance
- Understanding the complexities and features of ISE (Cisco Identity Services Engine)
- Understanding of NDR (Network Detection and Response)
- Excellent Oral and written communication skills – present to stakeholders and technical teams
- 10+ years designing and operating large-scale enterprise and provider WAN environments
- Proven experience with MPLS-based architectures, including traffic engineering and QoS
- Strong understanding of routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, IS-IS)
- Demonstrated experience leading MPLS-to-SD-WAN transformation initiatives
- Telecom experience is an asset
- Experience delivering measurable business outcomes through network automation and AI-driven operations, including the automation o

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