Network Architect / Technical Advisor

Kyndryl; Montreal (administrative region); Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Kyndryl in Montreal is seeking a senior Network Architect & Technical Advisor for a 16-month contract. This role is a design and advisory leadership position, not hands-on configuration, focusing on target-state architecture and validation for engineers performing build work.

The candidate will own enterprise routing and switching design across BGP/OSPF, VLANs/VRFs, firewall policy design and migration planning, including data centre cutovers and hybrid connectivity to Azure/AWS.

Qualifications

• 11+ years including 4+ years in Architecture / Lead
• Deep expertise in enterprise routing and switching (BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VRFs, spanning tree) across major vendor platforms
• Strong firewall design experience, including policy design, rule migration approach and rule base rationalization
• 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

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

Skills

Enterprise network architecture

BGP

OSPF

VLANs

VRFs

Spanning tree

Firewall policy design

Hybrid cloud connectivity

Load balancing

DC network services

CCNP

CCIE

JNCIP

Job description

Position: Network Architect & Technical Advisor

Client: Large Private Sector Client

Location: Montreal (Hybrid)

Duration: 16 Months

Background:

Kyndryl are seeking a senior network architect who owns target-state design and acts as design authority and technical escalation point for the engineers doing the hands-on work. This is a design and advisory role - not a hands-on configuration or cutover role.

Key Technologies:

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

Qualifications:

• 11+ years including 4+ years in Architecture / Lead
• Deepexpertisein enterprise routing and switching (BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VRFs,spanningtree) across major vendor platforms, sufficient to direct and validate the work of executing engineers.
• Strongfirewalldesign experience, including policy design, rule migrationapproachand rule base rationalization.
• Demonstrated experience designing and overseeing network migrations and cutovers in production data centre environments.
• Experience with load balancing technologies and network services in a datacentrecontext.
• 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.

Expected Tasks:

• 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 technicalSMEsand 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.

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Please note this is for a contract position with one of our clients and not a fulltime employment role with Kyndryl Canada