Senior Network Engineering Specialist Lead; Cloud and -premise

Permanent Full Time

Senior Engineering Specialist Lead, Networking Security Services (Network Platform)

The Senior Engineering Specialist Lead, Networking Security Services (Network Platform) is responsible for designing, deploying, and operationalizing network and security technologies, while providing day-to-day technical leadership across the Network Security Services domain. This position establishes technical direction and standards, investigates emerging technologies, leads proof-of-concept initiatives to evaluate business alignment, and promotes ongoing service enhancement through routine assessments of service health. The Lead partners with architecture, security, and delivery teams to align roadmaps and ensure solutions are secure, scalable, and operable, and enables the growth of other engineers through hands‑on mentorship, pairing on complex issues, facilitating design reviews, codifying reusable patterns and runbooks, and leading knowledge‑sharing sessions.

• Provide technical consulting and lead‑level guidance on the capabilities and limitations of network and security technologies
• Lead validation of new technologies through rapid prototyping and proofs of concept, and present outcomes and recommendations to stakeholders
• Research and evaluate technologies/products, build business‑aligned options, and make recommendations that influence platform decisions
• Test and evaluate network and security technologies against established criteria
• Work with vendors to finalize detailed technical specifications for hardware and software
• Conduct installation of hardware and software within test environments and, when necessary, in production settings
• Build or enhance network and security technologies infrastructure components, and integrate third‑party components, using standard tools (batch languages, programming languages, etc.)
• Implement all deliverables with the highest possible quality (that is, fewest implementation defects)
• Participate in the creation of project deliverables (estimates, schedules, risk assessments, etc.) as a project team member
• Make design decisions and provide technical oversight within the bounds established by project, portfolio, site, and enterprise architectures
• Contribute to creation and ongoing ownership of network and security technologies roadmaps, including prioritization and dependency alignment
• Conduct technical health assessments of network and security technologies, identify systemic risks, and drive remediation and continuous improvement plans
• Provide technical mentorship through pairing and troubleshooting support, lead design/implementation reviews, and raise overall engineering quality by improving standards, documentation/runbooks, and operational readiness
• Occasional travel may be required

• A degree or equivalent education in a related discipline such as Computer Science, Business Computing, Engineering, or Commerce
• Minimum 10 years of experience designing, integrating, and implementing end‑to‑end infrastructure, network, and security solutions in a large organization
• Proven skills in designing and deploying multi‑platform solutions
• Broad knowledge of industry technology and directions, and specific knowledge in network and security domains such as network technologies (LAN/WAN/WLAN, SDWAN, Load Balancers, DNS), IAM technologies, Cloud Computing, Automation, IPS/IDS, DDOS, Firewalls, WAF, VPN, etc.
• Demonstrated initiative and the ability to influence others
• Demonstrated experience mentoring and upskilling peers (e.g., pairing, knowledge‑sharing sessions, and constructive design/code reviews)
• Demonstrated strength in both technical and interpersonal skills
• The incumbent should have skills and knowledge in capacity planning, disaster recovery planning, product/service life cycles, service management and a strong focus on customer service
• Experience in performance tuning complex infrastructure solutions; knowledge of performance and monitoring tools will be an asset
• Attention to detail and effective planning and organizational skills
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills
• Good working knowledge of ITIL practices and processes
• Strong…