Network Engineer (L3)

• Inspirational, innovative and
• entrepreneurial - this is how we describe our empowered teams. Combine your
• passion with purpose and join a culture that is thriving in the face of change.
• National in scope and local in focus, MNP is
• one of Canada’s largest professional service firms providing client-focused
• accounting, consulting, tax, and digital services to clients. Founded in 1958,
• MNP today is a CAD 2 billion+ organization with 9600+ employees and 154 offices
• across Canada. MNP prides itself on being an ‘advisor’ to its clients
• (individuals, businesses, and organizations), focusing on their success by
• delivering personalized strategies and solutions that help clients reach their
• full potential — wherever business takes them.
• MNP set up MNP SPARK its GCC in Bangalore in
• May 2025 with a focus on enabling the firm drive growth, efficiency, customer
• delight and innovation, by leveraging high quality talent in India. MNP Spark
• is like any other MNP region/office - front facing, client focused but working
• with all MNP regions in Canada to deliver services.
• Make an impact with our
• Technology – Infrastructure team as a Network Specialist. This diverse team of
• professionals are committed to delivering firm-wide financial solutions with
• expertise and precision. As a trusted advisor, you will compile, analyze,
• summarize, and monitor financial data and reports that are integral to
• understanding the financial position of our firm.

Responsibilities

Lead

• the administration, troubleshooting, optimization, and hardening of Fortinet
• FortiGate, FortiManager, and Cisco environments, including security policy,
• NAT, VPN/IPsec, SD-WAN, BGP/OSPF routing, high availability, and secure
• connectivity across distributed sites

Own

• firewall rule tightening, policy refinement, least-privilege access reviews,
• and rulebase cleanup by identifying overly broad, unused, redundant, or legacy
• rules and safely improving access controls with minimal operational disruption.

Operate

• and improve centralized firewall management through FortiManager, including
• policy packages, shared objects, device onboarding, per-device mappings,
• deployment validation, and standardized workflows to improve consistency and
• predictable change outcomes.

Perform

• structured firewall and network audits, including configuration reviews, policy
• and object hygiene, rule-hit analysis, logging and telemetry validation,
• administrative access reviews, configuration drift identification, and evidence
• gathering for operational or compliance purposes.
• Design,
• support, and modernize Azure and hybrid networking, including virtual networks,
• routing, segmentation, secure access, VPN/ExpressRoute connectivity, cloud
• firewall controls, SD-WAN optimization, branch firewall migrations, and
• simplification of legacy design.

Use

• ServiceNow effectively to manage incidents, requests, changes, problems,
• approvals, documentation, and operational follow-through, ensuring tickets
• include clear technical notes, business impact, risk, resolution details, and
• validation evidence.

Partner

• with Security, Infrastructure, Cloud, and Operations teams to ensure firewall
• controls, logging, audit evidence, exception handling, change practices, and
• operational standards support security, compliance, availability, and incident
• response needs.

Identify

• recurring firewall, routing, VPN, policy, and operational issues; recommend
• durable fixes; and contribute to standards, documentation, automation,
• reporting, responsible AI use, and process improvements that reduce repeat
• incident.

Requirements

SSkills and Experience

6+

• years of relevant experience supporting enterprise, multi-site networks in
• operations and project delivery environments, with strong hands-on experience
• in firewall operations, troubleshooting, change management, and
• security-focused network administration

Strong

• hands-on experience administering Fortinet FortiGate firewalls and FortiManager
• in production environments, including security policies, NAT, VPN/IPsec,
• routing, SD-WAN, high availability, logging, policy packages, shared objects,
• device onboarding, deployment workflows, and validation.

Demonstrated

• experience with firewall rule tightening, policy refinement, least-privilege
• access design, cleanup of unused or redundant rules, review of broad
• source/destination/service definitions, and safe remediation of risky access.

Practical

• experience performing firewall and network audits, including configuration
• comparisons, access reviews, rule-hit analysis, logging verification, change
• evidence gathering, configuration drift identification, and operational risk
• assessment.

Strong

• understanding of firewall and network administration principles, including
• segmentation, zone-based policy, object hygiene, secure management access, VPN
• design, NAT behaviour, routing interaction, SD-WAN, BGP/OSPF, and asymmetric
• traffic troubleshooting.

Significant

• experience with Azure networking and security fundamentals, including virtual
• networks, routing, NSGs, Azure Firewall or equivalent controls,
• VPN/ExpressRoute concepts, segmentation, hybrid connectivity, and cloud
• firewall integration.

Experience

• with ServiceNow or a comparable ITSM platform, including incident management,
• change management, request fulfillment, problem records, documentation, queue
• ownership, ticket hygiene, SLA-aware follow-through, and operational
• accountability.

Strong

• troubleshooting capability across firewall, routing, VPN, DNS, NAT, policy,
• logging, cloud, endpoint, identity, and application connectivity issues, with
• the ability to define problems, gather evidence, test hypotheses, document
• findings, communicate risk, and drive resolution independently.

Excellent

• communication and documentation skills, including the ability to write clearly,
• present succinctly, explain technical issues to different stakeholder levels,
• provide structured incident or change updates, and produce implementation
• plans, rollback plans, troubleshooting notes, audit summaries, standards, and
• knowledge articles

Python

• scripting and automation experience, including comfort with APIs, configuration
• parsing, validation checks, reporting, ServiceNow data, FortiManager/FortiGate
• exports, audit evidence collection, and repetitive firewall or network
• administration tasks.

Proven

ability to balance operational support, project delivery, audit work, and

proactive improvement activities in a ticket-driven enterprise environment.

Demonstrated

• ownership mindset, professional judgment, and accountability when handling
• security-sensitive firewall changes, production incidents, stakeholder
• communication, and operational risk.

Experience

with Azure Kubernetes Service and other container services is considered an

asset

Education

Bachelors/Masters degree in computer science engineering, Network Engineering from an institute of repute