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Client: Financial Sector
Location: Toronto (Hybrid) - 3 days onsite per week
Duration: Six Months (Potential for extension)
Language: English
Position Summary
The Team Lead - Network Engineering is responsible for leading the design, implementation, and operational support of enterprise network infrastructure across on-premises, colocation, and cloud environments. This role combines senior technical expertise with people leadership, operational governance, and cross-functional coordination.
The Team Lead ensures high availability, security, performance optimization, and operational compliance across routing, switching, wireless, firewall, SD-WAN, segmentation, and cloud networking platforms. This position serves as the primary technical escalation point while overseeing team capacity, delivery execution, and service performance metrics within a 24/7 production environment.
Technology Environment
Cisco Routing & Switching (hardware lifecycle management)
Cisco Wireless infrastructure
Palo Alto Firewalls
Palo Alto Prisma Access (Firewall / Cloud VPN)
Illumio (micro-segmentation)
Palo Alto or VeloCloud SD-WAN
Carrier circuits, Equinix cross connects, structured cabling
AWS and Azure Networking
Cisco ISE
Cisco DNAC
SolarWinds Orion
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Team Management
Manage user and stakeholder relationships across business and technology teams.
Provide senior-level technical domain expertise and hands-on leadership across supported platforms.
Act as primary technical escalation point for complex incidents and major outages.
Manage team resources, recruitment support, capacity planning, and on-call rotation scheduling.
Oversee workload prioritization and ensure service delivery alignment with business objectives.
Lead change and incident management coordination across infrastructure, security, cloud, and application teams.
Coordinate and drive network-related project initiatives and infrastructure upgrades.
Deliver operational reporting on capacity, platform health, change activities, and incident metrics.
Technical & Operational Oversight
Oversee enterprise network operations including incident response and problem management.
Ensure proactive platform health monitoring, performance tuning, and capacity management.
Govern firewall, segmentation, and VPN rule management processes.
Oversee failover and disaster recovery (DR) testing.
Ensure compliance with ITSM processes and operational standards.
Supervise hardware lifecycle management, patching, firmware upgrades, and vulnerability remediation.
Provide oversight of Equinix colocation operations, carrier circuit provisioning, and infrastructure deployments.
Qualifications
7+ years of enterprise network engineering experience, with demonstrated leadership responsibilities.
Proven experience operating within high-availability, mission-critical environments.
Experience leading technical teams in hybrid cloud networking environments (AWS/Azure).
Strong experience managing firewall and segmentation governance at scale.
Technical Competencies
Deep expertise in TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, VLANs, QoS, IPsec, SSL VPN, and enterprise network security architecture.
Hands-on experience with Cisco networking, Palo Alto platforms, SD-WAN, ISE, DNAC, and monitoring tools.
Strong understanding of carrier connectivity, colocation deployments, and cross-connect provisioning.
Familiarity with automation and infrastructure-as-code practices is advantageous.
Soft Skills
Strong leadership presence with high accountability and ownership.
Effective stakeholder communication and cross-team coordination skills.
Ability to make decisions under pressure during critical incidents.
Strong planning, prioritization, and organizational skills.
Highly analytical with a continuous improvement mindset.
Preferred Certifications
Cisco (CCNP/CCIE)
Cisco Wireless certifications
Palo Alto (PCNSE)
AWS certifications
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Sprachkenntnisse
- English
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