Lead Network Architect

Raise; Montreal (administrative region); On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Raise in Montreal, QC is seeking a Lead Network Architect to design target-state network architectures, including routing, switching, segmentation and cloud connectivity.

This on-site role focuses on delivering production-grade designs, accompanying documentation, and technical guidance across the engineering team and security partners.

The ideal candidate has 11+ years in enterprise networking, strong leadership, and proven success directing migrations and cutovers in data-centre environments.

Qualifications

• 11+ years of enterprise network engineering experience, including architecture/lead capacity.
• Deep expertise in enterprise routing and switching across major vendor platforms.
• Strong firewall design experience including policy migration and rule base rationalisation.
• Experience designing and overseeing network migrations and cutovers in data centre environments.
• Familiarity with load balancing and network services in data centres.

Responsibilities

• Design target-state network architecture including routing, switching, segmentation, and connectivity topologies.
• Produce network design documentation with high-level and low-level designs.
• Provide guidance to SMEs and engineers during build, configuration and cutover activities.
• Act as design authority for the network domain and review configurations and migration approaches.
• Define security control requirements and ensure designs meet them.
• Review and approve as-built documentation and migration runbooks for handover.

Skills

Enterprise network architecture

BGP/OSPF/VLANs/VRFs

Firewall policy design

Hybrid cloud connectivity

Job description

Lead Network Architect

• Location: Montreal, ON- (Onsite)
• Contract Length: 5 Months

We at Raise are hiring a Lead Network Architect for one of our top clients. After establishing themselves as an industry leader, they’re now expanding their team to meet rising demand. We’re hiring right now; if you’re interested, for your chance to join a great place to work.

Responsibilities

• Design target-state network architecture, including routing, switching, segmentation, firewall policy and connectivity topologies.
• Produce network design documentation, including high-level and low-level designs, IP addressing schemes and traffic flow diagrams.
• Provide technical guidance and escalation support to technical SMEs and engineers executing network build, configuration and cutover activities.
• Act as design authority for the network domain, reviewing and approving configurations and migration approaches prior to execution.
• Resolve complex technical issues escalated during migration testing and cutover, providing direction to the executing resources.
• Design hybrid connectivity approaches between on-premises environments and cloud platforms.
• Define network security control requirements with client security teams and validate that designs meet them.
• Review and approve as-built documentation and migration runbooks produced by executing resources for handover.

KEY TECHNOLOGIES & SKILLS

• Enterprise network architecture
• BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VRFs, spanning tree
• Firewall policy design & rationalisation
• Hybrid cloud connectivity (Azure / AWS)
• Load balancing & DC network services
• CCNP / CCIE / JNCIP

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• Eleven or more years of enterprise network engineering experience, including at least four years in an architecture or lead engineering capacity.
• Deep expertise in enterprise routing and switching (BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VRFs, spanning tree) across major vendor platforms, sufficient to direct and validate the work of executing engineers.
• Strong firewall design experience, including policy design, rule migration approach and rule base rationalisation.
• Demonstrated experience designing and overseeing network migrations and cutovers in production data centre environments.
• Experience with load balancing technologies and network services in a data centre context.
• Proven ability to act as technical escalation point and design authority for a distributed engineering team.
• Ability to produce production-grade design documentation to enterprise standards.

NICE TO HAVE

• CCNP, CCIE, JNCIP or equivalent senior vendor certification.
• Hands-on experience with Azure or AWS networking (VNets, VPCs, ExpressRoute, Direct Connect, transit architectures).
• Familiarity with network automation approaches using Ansible, Python or Terraform.
• SD-WAN or software-defined data centre networking experience.