Senior Network Specialist

Bulletproof Solutions Inc; Beechville; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

RRSP program matching

Travel medical coverage

Certification reimbursement

Mental Health Counselling and Family/▲

Job summary

Bulletproof is seeking a Senior Network Specialist in Halifax, NS or Moncton, NB with hybrid work (4 days onsite) and a travel allowance of 30% to client offices. The role blends technical support (about 50%) with project work (about 50%), tackling high-priority tickets and driving network design, implementation, and improvements.

The ideal candidate brings strong hands-on networking experience, excellent customer service, and clear communication skills across diverse stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5-7 years of networking experience.
• Relevant certifications strongly preferred (Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet).
• Experience designing and supporting WAN/LAN/WLAN and SD-WAN environments.
• Hands-on experience with security, firewall policies, and segmentation frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Architect and support secure WAN, LAN, WLAN, and SD-WAN environments using FortiGate, FortiSwitch, and FortiAP platforms.
• Design, support and deploy enterprise wireless solutions.
• Provide senior-level escalation for complex network or security incidents.
• Support NOC environment and provide monitoring best practices.
• Network capacity planning and availability analysis.
• Assist sales with pre-sales engineering, BoM creation.
• Conduct security assessments and firewall policy audits.
• Implement network segmentation, NAC policies, and micro-segmentation.
• Tuning security profiles (Web Filtering, Anti-Malware, App Control, IPS).

Skills

Networking design

WAN/LAN/WLAN

SD-WAN

Fortinet FortiGate/ FortiSwitch/ Forti

Education

University degree / college certificate in IT

Tools

FortiGate

FortiSwitch

FortiAP

FortiManager/FortiAnalyzer

FortiAuthenticator

FortiToken

Palo Alto

Cisco

Azure Networking

Job description

Title: Senior Network Specialist

Location: Halifax, NS or Moncton, NB

Hybrid: 4 days onsite

Travel Expectations: Travel 30% when necessary to customer offices.

Position Overview:

Seeking a highly energetic and collaborative individual to join our team in a role that combines approximately 50% technical support and 50% project work. You will handle high-priority and escalated network tickets while also contributing to network projects involving design, implementation, and improvements.

The ideal candidate brings strong hands-on networking experience along with excellent customer service and communication skills.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and support secure WAN, LAN, WLAN, and SD-WAN environments using FortiGate, FortiSwitch, and FortiAP platforms.
• Design, support and deploy & support enterprise wireless solutions
• Provide senior-level technical escalation for complex network or security incidents.
• Support Bulletproof's NOC environment and systems and provide best practice procedures for monitoring our clients
• Provide network capacity planning and availability analysis
• Support sales teams with pre-sales engineering, solution scoping, and BoM creation.
• Conduct security assessments, firewall policy audits, and configuration hardening.
• Implement segmentation frameworks, micro-segmentation, and NAC policies.
• Tune security profiles include Web Filtering, Anti-Malware, Application Control, and Intrusion Prevention.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Minimum 5-7 years of networking experience
• A university degree, college certificate or diploma in information technology and/or have relevant experience and industry certification.
• Experience and/or certification in networking technologies, including Cisco, Palo Alto and Fortinet.
• Solid working knowledge of networking design, including Routing, LAN, WAN, and Wireless technologies including Fortinet and Cisco.
• Professional level experience working with switching and other technologies such as Spanning-Tree VLANs, QoS, IGMP, Multicast, MPLS, VPN hierarchical network architectures.
• Professional level experience working with advanced routing technologies such as OSPF, BGP, EIGRP and SD-WAN
• Experience supporting Enterprise and Public Cloud hosted network environments.
• Experience management and monitoring platforms using protocols such as SNMP, SSH and APIs.

Certifications (Strongly preferred):

• Fortinet NSE 5 (FortiManager/FortiAnalyzer)
• Fortinet NSE 6 (Advanced Security, OT Security,SD-WAN)
• Fortinet NSE 7 (Enterprise Firewall, Public Cloud)
• Palo Alto PCNSE
• Cisco CCNA

Preferred Experience:

• Experience with Microsoft Azure Networking including virtual Fortigate and Azure Network Services.
• Experience with Fortinet Technologies such as: FortiGate, FortiManager / FortiAnalyzer, FortiAuthenticator + FortiToken as well as SAML Authentication with Clouds, FortiSwitch / FortiAP (secure switching & wireless), FortiEMS / FortiClient (endpoint security) Experience with ZTNA is an asset.
• Familiarity with ITIL processes is an asset.

Perks & Benefits - What's in it for you?

• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Company-matched RRSP program
• Comprehensive travel medical coverage
• Professional certification reimbursement for relevant career development
• Mental Health Counselling and Family Assistance Program
• Community involvement and volunteer opportunities
• Give back while getting paid with dedicated volunteer time
• Competitive Extended health care benefits ($1500 per year massage therapy coverage)
• Goodlife Fitness corporate rate - It's 25% off memberships
• Recognition and rewards, including score-card performance bonus, and service award bonus

About Bulletproof

At Bulletproof, we help organizations stay secure, compliant, and future-ready through Microsoft-powered technology solutions and managed services. For more than 20 years, we've partnered with public sector organizations, regulated industries, and commercial businesses across North America to reduce risk, modernize operations, and drive measurable outcomes. As a trusted Microsoft solutions partner, we combine deep expertise in cybersecurity, cloud, compliance, and managed services with a people-first culture that values growth, innovation, and meaningful impact.

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Bulletproof is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Bulletproof is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.