Network Designer - Senior

Innova Solutions

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

Innova Solutions is hiring a Senior Network Designer for an eight-month full-time contract in a hybrid role in Toronto, Ontario. The position is responsible for developing architectures, roadmaps, and plans to connect Agency products and services within provincial system integrations and strategic objectives. The designer provides technical expertise for network and network-security initiatives and guides portfolios and partners toward solutions aligned with the Agency’s digital vision and applicable provincial, national, and international mandates.

Using an automation-first approach, the role develops strategic solutions and tactical delivery approaches for complex provincial and regional initiatives. It identifies architectural misalignments, duplicated work, and opportunities to reduce costs; proposes and drives practical, efficient, reusable solutions; and addresses complex problems spanning multiple assets. The position also promotes architecture patterns and principles for reusability and maintainability and designs VNA Cloud connectivity to support centralized digital imaging repositories for OCInet.

Requirements

• Experience designing end-to-end architecture delivery, from strategy through migration.
• Experience designing cloud connectivity, including Direct Connect or ExpressRoute, transit architectures, and AWS-Azure multi-cloud integration.
• Demonstrated ability to apply standard security controls, including firewalls and segmentation, in secure architectures such as SASE or Zero Trust.
• Experience leading implementation of automation and AIOps solutions that delivered measurable operational efficiencies.
• Experience leading full-lifecycle architecture delivery, including current state, future state, migration, and transition architecture.

Nice To Haves

• 10+ years designing and operating large-scale enterprise and provider WAN environments.
• Proven experience with MPLS-based architectures, including traffic engineering and QoS.
• Strong understanding of routing protocols such as BGP, OSPF, and IS-IS.
• Demonstrated experience leading MPLS-to-SD-WAN transformation initiatives.
• Telecom experience is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Create architectures, roadmaps, and plans for interconnecting Agency products and services within provincial system integrations and strategic objectives.
• Provide technical expertise for ongoing network and network-security initiatives.
• Guide and influence portfolios and partners to align solutions with the Agency’s digital vision and applicable provincial, national, and international mandates.
• Develop visionary solutions and tactical delivery approaches for complex provincial and regional initiatives using an automation-first approach.
• Identify architectural misalignments, duplication of effort, and other opportunities for improvement to reduce costs.
• Escalate, propose, and drive practical, efficient, and reusable architectural solutions through delivery.
• Solve complex problems spanning multiple assets and promote architecture patterns and principles that support reusability and maintainability.
• Develop and design VNA Cloud connectivity to support centralizing digital imaging repositories for OCInet.

Benefits

• Medical and pharmacy coverage, based on eligibility.
• Dental and vision insurance.
• 401(k).
• Health savings account (HSA).
• Flexible spending account (FSA).
• Life insurance.
• Pet insurance.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Accident and critical illness coverage.
• Pre-paid legal and identity-theft protection.
• Sick time and other paid leaves as required by law.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed