Global Network Infrastructure Leader & Automation

Humankind Recruitment; Halifax; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & health benefits

RRSP matching

Job summary

Humankind Recruitment is seeking a Network Infrastructure Manager in Halifax, offering a hybrid work model with 2 days in the office. You will lead a geographically distributed team of network SMEs and engineers, directing strategy, architecture, security, and automation across a global network.

You will provide technical leadership on Cisco, Palo Alto, Nexus, and F5 technologies, drive resilience, capacity planning, and continuous improvement in a secure, scalable network environment.

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing enterprise network infrastructure.
• Proven experience leading geographically distributed technical teams.
• Strong enterprise networking and security knowledge.
• Extensive experience with Cisco routing/switching, wireless, Catalyst Center, and SD-WAN.
• Strong experience with Palo Alto firewalls and Panorama.
• Strong experience with Cisco Nexus, including vPC and EVPN-VXLAN.
• Experience with Nexus Dashboard.
• Strong experience with F5 load balancing.
• Strong understanding of network security, resilience, disaster recovery, and lifecycle management.
• Experience with Incident, Problem, Change, and Service Management.
• Demonstrated experience delivering network transformation and continual improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and mentor a global team of Network SMEs and Engineers.
• Establish clear technical ownership, standards, and accountability across network domains.
• Own the global network strategy, architecture, lifecycle, and technology roadmap.
• Ensure high availability, resilience, performance, capacity, and operational excellence.
• Provide technical leadership across: Cisco Routing & Switching, Cisco Wireless, Cisco Catalyst Center, Cisco SD-WAN, Cisco Nexus/NX-OS/vPC/EVPN-VXLAN, Nexus Dashboard, Palo Alto Firewalls & Panorama, F5 BIG-IP/LTM.
• Lead network security, segmentation, vulnerability management, and compliance.
• Provide technical leadership during major incidents and drive effective Problem Management and root-cause analysis.
• Establish effective network monitoring, observability, telemetry, and capacity management.
• Drive automation using APIs, scripting, Catalyst Center, Infrastructure-as-Code, and other automation technologies.
• Support the development of AI Operations / AIOps capabilities.
• Lead network infrastructure requirements for major projects and transformation initiatives.
• Manage technology lifecycle, vendors, contracts, capacity, and infrastructure investment.
• Work closely with Infrastructure, Security, Applications, Solutions, Service Management, Monitoring & Observability, and Project teams.

Skills

Network leadership

Distributed teams

Security & resilience

Automation mindset

Tools

Cisco Routing & Switching

Cisco Wireless

Nexus/NX-OS/vPC/EVPN-VXLAN

Palo Alto Firewalls

F5 BIG-IP

Job description

Humankind Recruitment is seeking a Network Infrastructure Manager in Halifax, offering a hybrid work model with 2 days in the office. You will lead a geographically distributed team of network SMEs and engineers, directing strategy, architecture, security, and automation across a global network.

You will provide technical leadership on Cisco, Palo Alto, Nexus, and F5 technologies, drive resilience, capacity planning, and continuous improvement in a secure, scalable network environment.