Network lead

Job Type:

Regular

People are at the heart of our success.

Our culture fosters collaboration, transparency and accountability to create value and deliver sustainable results. Being part of the team means working in an environment where everyone’s impact truly matters.

At Agropur, accountability means taking ownership of challenges and acting with purpose to achieve results.

Reporting to the Director, IT Infrastructure, the Network Lead plays a strategic role in the design, implementation, and evolution of Agropur’s critical network infrastructure.

You act as a trusted expert, translating business needs into concrete, secure, and high-performing technology solutions. You contribute directly to shaping standards, best practices, and the technology roadmap, while influencing and guiding your team toward excellence.

This role is at the heart of our transformation: you bridge vision and execution, ensuring consistent, resilient, and scalable network services across all environments—on-premises and cloud.

An environment that empowers you:

• Recognition of years of service for vacation calculation
• Flexible remote work options
• Flexible group insurance plan including telemedicine
• Employee assistance program
• Career development and growth opportunities
• Annual bonus
• Pension plan with employer contributions
• Salary scale 006: $100,900 to $126,100 (based on experience, education, and skills)

What you will take ownership of:

A key role at the intersection of architecture and operations.

• Transform business needs into robust network solutions
• Act as a technical reference (level 3+) for critical issues
• Ensure alignment between design, operations, and performance
• Drive best practices and continuous improvement

Your impact

Build

• Design and deploy complex network architectures
• Define standards and ensure solution quality

Optimize

• Manage infrastructure lifecycle (capacity, evolution, obsolescence)
• Stabilize environments and elevate practices

Secure

• Manage risks and ensure compliance
• Strengthen ITIL practices and governance

Innovate

• Influence the technology roadmap
• Evaluate future solutions and partners

Mobilize

• Develop talent and guide teams
• Collaborate with IT, security, cloud, and external partners

The profile that will thrive in this role:

Experience

• 10+ years in complex enterprise network environments
• Progression into architecture, engineering, or advisory roles
• Technical leadership on major projects
• Hybrid experience (on-prem, cloud, industrial/OT environments)

Technical expertise

• Protocols: TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP
• Cisco (routing/switching), wireless
• Firewalls (Palo Alto or equivalent)
• SD-WAN (Velocloud or equivalent)
• Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP – hybrid architectures)
• Network performance, monitoring, and troubleshooting

Architecture & design

• Translate business needs into secure, scalable architectures
• Produce designs, diagrams, and standards
• Analyze trade-offs (cost, risk, performance)

Operations & governance

• Strong ITIL knowledge (incident, change, problem, asset)
• Capacity, lifecycle, and risk management
• KPI- and metrics-driven management

Assets

• Certifications: CCNP/CCIE, PCNSE, Fortinet
• Cloud: AWS Advanced Networking, Azure
• Automation: Python, Ansible, APIs
• Experience in manufacturing / OT environments

A workplace that values ownership and empowers everyone to take initiative.

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Agropur welcomes people from all backgrounds and origins. We are proud to be an employer with a diverse community and are committed to providing a respectful and inclusive experience for all employees and applicants. We will work with candidates who request accommodation. Please note that an adequate knowledge of French is required for positions in Quebec. Agropur uses artificial intelligence technology to assist our recruiters in screening, assessing, or selecting applicants for this position.

In this text, the use of the masculine gender to designate persons is intended only to lighten the text.