network engineers x 2.

Our client, is seeking a highly skilled Network Engineer to join their infrastructure team.

In this critical on-site engineering role, you will lead the strategic planning, design, and continuous optimization of a complex global network infrastructure. You will analyze real-world performance metrics to guide technical decisions, ensuring the network capacity seamlessly supports long-term growth and high-throughput operational demands. Serving as a key technical collaborator, you will work alongside international squads and external partners to review architectures, implement industry best practices, and actively shape the future of the enterprise network roadmap.

Duration: 6-Month Contract

Work Arrangement: 100% On-site (5 days per week at the corporate office/regional hub)

Advantages
Enterprise-Scale Influence: Gain highly marketable hands-on experience managing and modernizing network architecture across a massive footprint of over 400 active sites.

Complex Multi-Vendor Environment: Deepen your technical expertise in a robust hybrid ecosystem utilizing both Cisco and Juniper enterprise hardware.

Diverse Project Pipeline: Avoid maintenance fatigue by driving active lifecycle upgrades, from physical rack-and-stack deployments to modern LTE backup migrations and virtualization efforts.

High-Visibility Collaboration: Work closely with international engineering teams, business unit leaders, and external service providers, expanding your professional profile.

Responsibilities
Infrastructure & Lifecycle Management
Deploy & Configure: Install, configure, and manage high-performance network equipment (including Switches, Routers, Access Points, and Firewalls) across 400+ corporate locations via remote management and targeted on-site visits.

Modernization & Migrations: Lead network lifecycle upgrades, executing LTE backup integrations, DSL-to-broadband migrations, complex VLAN deployments, switch retrofits, and physical rack/stack/cabling works.

Continuous Optimization: Monitor traffic, latency, and throughput to proactively identify performance bottlenecks, coordinate secure data backups, and update network threat protection protocols.

Support, Troubleshooting & Collaboration
High-Tier Diagnostics: Lead and participate in cross-functional troubleshooting sessions with internal multidisciplinary teams and external vendor partners to quickly isolate and resolve critical network failures.

Stakeholder Enablement: Partner directly with distributed business units (including retail storefronts and regional distribution centers) to remediate connectivity issues and minimize operational downtime.

Vendor Management: Act as the technical point of contact for equipment manufacturers and Internet Service Providers (ISPs), logging, tracking, and escalating support tickets to preserve established SLAs.

Qualifications
Experience: 5 to 8 years of dedicated, professional network engineering experience supporting large-scale enterprise environments.

Vendor Expertise: Deep, hands-on command of both Cisco and Juniper routing and switching platforms.

Architecture & Protocols: Proven track record designing, configuring, and supporting highly redundant enterprise WAN and LAN infrastructures, with advanced knowledge of routing protocols including BGP, OSPF, and EIGRP.

Systems & Security: Strong understanding of workstation/server operating systems, basic system triage, and foundational network security methodologies (firewalls, access control lists, and encryption).

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronic Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

Preferred Assets
Holding active CCNP, CCIE, or JNCIE certifications is highly desirable.

Strong conceptual knowledge and hands-on experience configuring and scaling enterprise-level Wi-Fi networks.

Functional proficiency with scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) or programming tools used for modern network automation.

Summary
If you are a tech-savvy Network Engineer who pairs an absolute command of Cisco and Juniper platforms with the analytical depth required to troubleshoot and optimize a global network of over 400 sites, this 6-month on-site contract is an exceptional opportunity. Bring your routing and switching precision, deployment expertise, and collaborative problem-solving drive to our elite infrastructure group today!

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

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