Network Engineer​/Hands-On Network Manager - Houston, TX

About Zedcor Inc.

Zedcor Inc. (TSX-V:ZDC) is disrupting the traditional physical security industry through its proprietary MobileyeZ™ security towers by providing turnkey and customized mobile surveillance and live monitoring solutions to blue-chip customers across North America. The Company continues to expand its established platform of over 1,200 MobileyeZ™ towers in Canada and the United States, with emphasis on industry leading service levels, data-supported efficiency outcomes, and continued innovation.

Zedcor services the Canadian market through equipment and service centers currently located in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, and Ontario. The Company continues to advance its U.S. expansion which now has the capacity to service markets throughout the Midwest with locations throughout Texas Colorado, Arizona, Nevada and Florida.

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This is a player-coach position. You will own Zedcor's network end to end: office LAN/WAN and wireless, datacenter networking for our on-premises virtualization and Azure Local buildout, hybrid Azure connectivity, and the edge connectivity that keeps surveillance towers streaming. You help set the standards, do the hands‑on engineering, and build the operational discipline our compliance program depends on. This role is based full‑time at our Houston office in the Willowbrook area.

• Design, build, and operate LAN, WAN, and wireless networks across the Houston headquarters, Calgary and remote sites across the US and Canada, including structured cabling, switching, wireless, 802.1x, VPN.
• Own datacenter networking, Telcom connection management and monitoring.
• Engineer and operate hybrid cloud networking:
  Express Route, VPN gateways, virtual networks, NAT gateways, DNS, and Azure Front Door.
• Administer the F5 BIG-IP with WAF fronting production, including policy tuning, upgrades, and failover testing.
• Manage firewalls, network segmentation, and access controls aligned to Zero Trust principles and Entra ‑based identity.
• Own IP address management, DNS/DHCP, and network documentation; drive the IPAM platform operation.
• Manage ISP and carrier relationship across multiple sites/countries, including circuit provisioning, escalation, and cost control
• Build network monitoring and alerting into our monitoring stack and respond to network‑related security events
• Produce and maintain the change records, diagrams, and configuration evidence required for SOC 2 Type II, and participate in audit walkthroughs
• Mentor and direct junior IT staff on network tasks; establish runbooks so the network survives without heroics

• Design, build, maintain, and troubleshoot IPsec and SSL VPN networks.
  · Manage and support a Cradlepoint environment of 20,000+ devices.
• Manage Sophos firewalls or become proficient with Sophos within the first 30 days if experienced with another major firewall platform.
• Ensure DNS and DHCP are centrally managed, monitored, logged, secured, and not hosted directly on firewalls.
• Patch, monitor, log, audit, and secure network infrastructure.
• Ensure network links, management access, VPNs, and sensitive data flows are encrypted.
• Document network designs, firewall rules, routing policies, VPN configurations, standards, and runbooks.
• Support incident response, change management, vulnerability remediation, disaster recovery, SOC 2, FedRAMP, and StateRAMP readiness.
• Use Zedcor’s internal PKI solution for device identity, certificates, authentication, encryption, and secure management.
• Maintain centralized logging, centralized audit logging, centralized authentication, centralized monitoring, and alerting.
• Ensure firewalls are used as security enforcement points,…