Senior Specialist, Networking & Connectivity

The Senior Specialist Networking & Connectivity is responsible for the strategy design implementation operation and lifecycle management of all networking and connectivity infrastructure across the AI Fabric portfolio of AI-focused data centres. This role provides technical leadership for facility networking inter-site connectivity customer cross-connects carrier relationships and integration with Bells national fibre network.

The successful candidate will own the end-to-end delivery and operation of highly available scalable secure and low-latency network infrastructure supporting high-density AI workloads advanced GPU clusters tenant environments and mission-critical data centre operations.

This individual serves as the primary subject matter expert for connectivity architecture and works closely with Engineering Operations Construction Security Product Customers Carriers and Technology Partners throughout all phases of the facility lifecycle. AI Fabric facilities require integration with national fibre assets and delivery of low-latency networking services supporting AI training and inference environments.

• Lead the development of AI Fabrics network strategy and technology roadmap defining standards for data centre network architecture spine-leaf fabrics WAN connectivity customer connectivity services carrier interconnections management networks and out-of-band networks.
• Develop scalable network designs supporting high-density AI and HPC workloads with standards for resiliency redundancy low latency and security.
• Review and approve networking designs for new AI Fabric facilities and collaborate with engineering teams on network requirements during site selection design and construction.
• Own connectivity standards across AI Fabric locations including carrier entrances meet-me rooms cross-connect infrastructure optical transport fibre management and inter-facility connectivity.
• Coordinate integration with Bells national fibre infrastructure and develop network expansion plans to support future AI capacity growth.
• Provide technical leadership for network operations monitoring incident response root cause analysis performance reliability and capacity management.
• Review customer networking requirements and provide technical guidance for customer connectivity and AI/HPC infrastructure deployments.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to ensure network infrastructure meets security segmentation access control monitoring and compliance requirements.
• Lead technical reviews with Bell Networking teams consultants contractors vendors and carriers and support technical evaluations and vendor selection.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering Telecommunications Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 7 years of experience in network engineering and operations.
• 5 years supporting mission-critical environments.
• Experience designing and operating large-scale data centre networks.
• Experience supporting high-density compute AI cloud or hyperscale environments.
• Experience with carrier networks fibre infrastructure and WAN services.
• Experience supporting multiple sites and geographically distributed environments.

• Spine-leaf architectures EVPN-VXLAN BGP and MPLS
• Optical transport DWDM DCI fibre infrastructure and structured cabling
• SD-WAN network automation Infrastructure-as-Code monitoring and observability
• AI cluster networking including NVIDIA InfiniBand and Ethernet AI fabrics
• Experience with Arista Cisco Juniper Nokia or equivalent enterprise networking platforms