Senior Network Engineer (CCIE or equivalent)
Pathway Communications
Full-time
On-site
Markham, Ontario, Canada
Information Technology (IT)
Pathway is hiring a Senior Network Engineer (CCIE or equivalent) in Markham to architect, implement, and optimize multi-site, hybrid (data center + cloud) networks for internal and client environments. You will own HLD/LLD, lead migrations and operations, and partner with security to deliver high-availability, secure, and scalable solutions aligned to business objectives
Type of Position: Permanent Full-time, on-site, five days a week
Availability on call/ after office hours
Key Responsibilities
Network Engineering
Security Engineering & Compliance
Consulting, Ownership & Collaboration
Required Qualifications
Preferred Skills
Type of Position: Permanent Full-time, on-site, five days a week
Availability on call/ after office hours
Key Responsibilities
Network Engineering
- End-to-end design of resilient LAN/WAN/WLAN/SD-WAN/data center and hybrid cloud interconnects (hub-and-spoke, EVPN/VXLAN, IPv6, QoS, multicast where applicable).
- HLD/LLD ownership: diagrams, BoM, IP plans, routing policies, config standards/runbooks.
- Implementation & migrations: plan and execute greenfield builds, cutovers, upgrades with rollback plans.
- Routing & switching: expert policy design/troubleshooting for BGP/OSPF/IS-IS, ECMP, VRFs, ACLs, L2/L3 segmentation.
- Wireless: enterprise WLAN planning/optimization (surveys, RF design, 802.1X).
- Cloud networking (Azure-first): vNet/vWAN designs, Private Link/Endpoints, Route Server, ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall/WAF/App Gateway, Bastion; on-prem to cloud connectivity and segmentation.
- Observability & SRE: SNMPv3, NetFlow/IPFIX/sFlow, streaming telemetry, syslog; SLI/SLO dashboards; capacity planning and performance tuning.
Security Engineering & Compliance
- Network security controls: NGFW/IPS, WAF, DDoS, VPN/ZTNA, micro-segmentation (ACLs/VRFs/host-based), secure web/DNS.
- Access & segmentation: 802.1X/NAC and posture checks; privileged access boundaries; PKI/cert lifecycle for network services.
- Zero-Trust & SASE: identity-aware access, secure edge, policy-as-code; align with SOC/SIEM for telemetry (flows, DNS, firewall).
- Compliance & RCA: map controls to ISO 27001/SOC 2/HIPAA/PHIPA as applicable; lead RCAs and maintain hardening baselines.
Consulting, Ownership & Collaboration
- Translate business requirements into clear designs and options; present to stakeholders and obtain sign-off.
- Keep diagrams, inventories, as-builts, and runbooks current.
- Partner with PMO/operations to meet SLAs/OLAs; participate in escalation rota and maintenance windows.
- Mentor engineers; review changes for quality/risk.
Required Qualifications
- Certification: CCIE (any track) or equivalent expert-level certification (e.g., Fortinet NSE 7/8, Palo Alto PCNSE, Juniper JNCIE), or demonstrable expert-level experience.
- Experience: 8+ years in network engineering with 3+ years leading complex, multi-site or multi-tenant designs/migrations.
- Deep expertise in routing/switching (BGP, OSPF/IS-IS, MPLS/EVPN, QoS) and enterprise WLAN.
- Hands-on with network security (NGFW/IPS, VPN/ZTNA, NAC/802.1X, segmentation) and integrating logs with SIEM.
- Cloud networking: experience with Microsoft Azure (vNet/vWAN, ExpressRoute, Private Link, Azure Firewall/WAF/App Gateway); familiarity with other clouds is a plus.
- Excellent client-facing communication and documentation (HLD/LLD/runbooks/change notes).
Preferred Skills
- MSP/consulting background with multi-tenant operations and SLA ownership.
- Fortinet ecosystem: FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, SD-WAN, IPsec/SSL VPN, ZTNA, EMS, FortiNAC, WLAN/AP/switch integration.
- Cisco ecosystem: Catalyst/Nexus, SDA/ACI, SD-WAN (Viptela), ISE/802.1X, ASA/FTD, Meraki switching/Wi-Fi/SD-WAN.
- Azure security integrations: Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, Azure Monitor/Log Analytics, NSGs/ASGs, Policy.
- Packet capture & protocol analysis: expert with Wireshark (display filters, TLS/SSL, TCP retransmits/latency, VoIP/RTP, 802.11), plus tcpdump, dumpcap, and (nice-to-have) CloudShark/Zeek.
- ITIL change/problem; disciplined incident and post-incident processes.
- EVPN/VXLAN leaf-spine, service-mesh; observability (Prometheus/Grafana) and capacity modeling.
- Familiarity with SASE/SD-WAN/ZTNA patterns across multiple vendors (e.g., Palo Alto, Check Point, Zscaler, Cloudflare, Aruba/Juniper/Arista).