Job Description

The Global Network Engineering - Design team is responsible for maintaining the software and hardware standards for network, enterprise telephony and contact center technologies. Working closely with the architecture team we are engaged in developing the platforms roadmaps, participate in the Proof Of Concept and responsible for the production pilot of new technologies. We provide the solution designs and work closely with all global regions to maintain common strategies and service methodologies. The team is engaged in all major projects and complex initiatives providing technical oversight and guidance to ensures all standards and patterns are followed.

Reporting to a Senior Manager, Global Network Engineering - Design, as a Network Engineer you will play a critical part in helping the team support the various technologies within our Global Network.

Is this role right for you? In this role, you will:
• You are eager to work with leading edge technologies to incorporate complex network solutions, as well as work with other technology teams to contribute to an overall solution.
• You thrive on being hands-on during mid to complex project deployments into production. This will include the support of assigned systems by acting as an internal consultant on assigned infrastructure and providing suggestions for viable solutions to systems problems of high complexity.
• Leads, reviews, and consults on solutions & designs for assigned tasks. Provides recommendations for enhancements and improvements. Design, test, implementation and troubleshooting for large size of I&O environment
• Act as a consultant and subject matter expert for Global Network Services, support teams to resolve technical deployment obstacles and improve network services
• Publish Standards , bug reviews, best practices
• Manage vendor relationship
• Understand Global Networks operation issues and customer challenges , advocate for their needs with cross-functional teams like architecture, application, and operation teams
• Develop network technology roadmap and seek for the approval
• Mentors and coaches’ others in assigned area, transferring subject matter expertise to others
• Perform new network product evaluation(i.e. POC) and produce report and recommendation independently, develop network solution architecture standard documents and seek the approval
• Recognized as having advanced technical knowledge within network domains
• Good communicator with ability to interact with various departments up to Director level
• Works independently and able to provide technical guidance to junior team members, create best practices, recognize patterns for improvement and champion for improvement, guided by policies, operating plans and priorities
• You understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• You are highly interested in software-defined Data Centre technologies like Cisco ACI and VMWare NSX and want to help drive the roadmap and adoption within a large-scale enterprise network.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:
• You have 7+ years of hands-on technical working experience in supporting, deploying, and interconnecting various network technologies at an enterprise scale.
• You have 7+ years of hands-on technical working experience with various Cisco, Fortinet, F5, Infoblox at an enterprise level capacity:
-Cisco Routing and Switching (Arista nice to have)
• Nexus ACI/N9K Solutions
• Cisco ISR, ASR, Catalyst 8000 Routers
• Catalyst 9K
• Routing protocols BGP, OSPF
-Cisco Security/VPN
• ASA/FTD Firewalls
• Cisco FMC
-Fortinet
• FortiGate Firewalls
• Forti Manager/Collector/Analyzer
-F5 LTM/GTM
-Infoblox DNS/DHCP and IPAM
• You have hands on technical working experience with Cisco ACI, or similar software defined technologies.
• You have 2+ years of hands-on technical working experience with various Public Cloud (Azure & GCP preferred) environments, in a network related capacity.
• You have 5+ years of hands-on technical working experience with Wired and Wireless 802.1x Network Authentication using Cisco ISE.
• You have 2+ years of hands-on experience in network automation with some of the below skill sets:
-Python experience
-Familiar with some of the following libraries (flask-restful, flask blueprint, netmiko/paramiko/napalm, requests, regular expressions and json/yaml)
• You possess superior problem solving and decision-making skills to resolve work issues with the ability to work under pressure in a dynamic environment.
• You have strong communication (verbal/written) and good interpersonal skills to build relationships with internal and external business partners and vendors.
• You possess a strong core foundation experience in fundamental network technologies and protocols.
• Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Networking Technology, or related field.

What's in it for you?
• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employee to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans.
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements.
• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits will start on day one.
• Community Engagement - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons, contests, cooking with friends, Humans of Digital and much more!