Network Engineer

Halifax, NS
Hybrid
Posted Oct 15, 2026
1 position

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Employment type: Full-time
Experience level: Senior · 5+ years
Posting language: English
Working hours: 40 hours per week
Office presence: 2 days per week
Seniority: Mid-Senior level

Job summary

Provide Tier 3 support for complex network incidents, administer and optimize enterprise Cisco, Palo Alto, and F5 infrastructure, and resolve problems through troubleshooting and root-cause analysis. Improve network security, performance, resilience, and automation while supporting projects, changes, documentation, and collaboration across technical teams.

Job details

Network Engineer Halifax (Hybrid-2 days in office) Our client a dynamic Information Technology services company that partners with leading global organizations to deliver innovative, high-quality IT solutions is looking for an experienced Network Engineer – Tier 3 to support, secure, and continually improve their enterprise network infrastructure. You will provide advanced technical support across Cisco routing and switching, wireless, Nexus Data Centre networking, Catalyst Center, Cisco SD-WAN, Palo Alto firewalls and Panorama, and F5 load-balancing platforms. Responsibilities Provide Tier 3 support for complex network incidents, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and permanent problem resolution. Administer and maintain Cisco routing, switching, wireless, Nexus, Catalyst Center, and SD-WAN infrastructure. Manage Palo Alto firewalls and Panorama, including security policies, VPNs, upgrades, and troubleshooting. Support F5 BIG-IP/LTM load balancing, application connectivity, and high availability. Monitor and optimize network performance, capacity, resilience, and availability. Implement network security hardening, vulnerability remediation, patching, and configuration compliance. Develop network automation using Python, Ansible, and APIs. Support infrastructure projects, network changes, migrations, and hardware and software lifecycle management. Maintain network diagrams, configuration standards, technical documentation, and recovery procedures. Collaborate with infrastructure, security, monitoring, and service management teams to improve network reliability and operational efficiency. Qualifications Significant experience supporting enterprise network environments at Tier 3 level. Strong Cisco routing and switching knowledge, including Catalyst, Nexus, IOS/IOS-XE, and NX-OS. Experience with Cisco wireless, Catalyst Center, and SD-WAN. Strong hands-on experience with Palo Alto firewalls and Panorama. Experience with F5 BIG-IP/LTM load balancing. Excellent understanding of TCP/IP, VLANs, STP, OSPF, network segmentation, and troubleshooting. Experience with network monitoring, security, vulnerability management, and performance optimization. Knowledge of Python, Ansible, or other network automation technologies. Strong incident, problem, and change management skills, including root-cause analysis. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing team. The company offers a competitive compensation package, medical & health benefits and RRSP matching. If this sounds like the ideal position for you then apply today!

What you’ll do

Requirements

Significant Tier 3 experience supporting enterprise networks, with strong Cisco routing, switching, wireless, Nexus, Catalyst Center, and SD-WAN expertise. Hands-on experience with Palo Alto firewalls and Panorama, F5 BIG-IP/LTM, core networking protocols, security and monitoring, incident and change management, and network automation tools such as Python or Ansible is required.