Network Engineer
Accenture•Ottawa, ON
•CA$25 - CA$49•Hybrid
About The Position
The Advanced Technology Centers (ATCs) are positioned to unlock greater opportunities and exponential value for our clients by leveraging Innovation, Intelligence, Industry insights, new IT, and new technology skills. This role is for a network engineer who designs secure, high-availability networks and leads complex incident response. The engineer will combine deep platform expertise with automation to deliver predictable results at scale in regulated environments.
Requirements
- Minimum 2 years of experience in network engineering experience (enterprise/DC).
- Expertise with routing/switching, NGFW, VPN, load balancing, DNS/DHCP/IPAM.
- Automation skills (Ansible/Python) and Git-based workflows.
- Incident leadership and documentation excellence.
- Bachelor’s degree or college diploma in a related field.
- Eligibility for Reliability Clearance.
Nice To Haves
- Eligible for Top Secret Security Clearance or currently holds Top Secret Security Clearance status.
- Professional certs (CCNA, CCNP, CCIE).
- Experience with network observability and telemetry stacks.
- Bilingual (English/French).
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate campus/DC/private cloud network architectures (EVPN/VXLAN, BGP, OSPF, ECMP).
- Engineer perimeter and micro‑segmentation strategies (NGFW, IDS/IPS, WAF) aligned to Zero Trust and ITSG‑33.
- Implement SD-WAN, remote access, and hybrid connectivity (IPSec/SSL, MPLS, ExpressRoute/Direct Connect).
- Automate configuration and compliance checks with Ansible/Python; manage golden configs and CI pipelines.
- Lead P1/P2 network incidents, perform packet captures, and drive RCA with corrective actions.
- Define monitoring KPIs, telemetry, and synthetic tests; maintain runbooks and topology diagrams.
- Collaborate with Cloud/Security teams on service onboarding and resilience patterns; support DR testing.
- Ability to work shifts/on-call; comfort working on-site in high-security environments.
- Travel may be required based on client demand.
- This role will require a minimum of 3 days per week in the office.
Benefits
- Information on benefits is here.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
