IT Support for Engineering Firms in Calgary and Vancouver

Engineering firms run software that most IT providers have never heard of. We support the full stack — from AutoCAD and Bluebeam to energy simulation, process modeling, and multi-client VPN environments.

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We Know What's Running on Your Machines

Before starting Huntertech, I ran IT for a global architecture and engineering firm in Vancouver. Not as a vendor — as the internal IT department. I was responsible when project deadlines collided with infrastructure problems, when simulation jobs ran overnight and the machine had to be reliable, when the wrong hardware spec cost a team a week.

That was 2010. We've been supporting AEC and engineering firms specifically ever since.

When you call us about an AutoCAD licensing issue, a VPN conflict with a client environment, or a simulation workstation that's bottlenecking your team, you're not explaining what those things are first. We already know.

Why Engineering Firms Choose Huntertech

Engineering Software Support

AutoCAD, Bluebeam, IES Virtual Environment, DWSIM, RETScreen, Pyrosim — we support the full engineering software stack, not just the tools that show up in every MSP brochure. If your team runs it, we can support it.

Simulation and Compute Workloads

Overnight simulation jobs need hardware that doesn't fail at 3am. We spec and manage workstations for sustained compute loads — the right CPU, the right memory, the right storage — so your results are there when you come in the morning.

Multi-Client VPN Environments

Engineering firms often connect to multiple client networks simultaneously — Cisco AnyConnect, FortiClient, GlobalProtect, Sophos. We manage the conflicts, the credential sprawl, and the connectivity issues so your team can get into client environments without IT becoming the bottleneck.

File Management That Scales

SharePoint works until your firm grows past it. We help engineering firms choose and migrate to the right platform for their file volumes and collaboration patterns — whether that's Egnyte, LucidLink, or a properly structured SharePoint environment.

Engineering Firms We Work With

Pontem Group: From Four Principals Doing IT to 1,000 Hours Recovered

Pontem Group is a fire suppression and code consulting firm in Vancouver. Four principals were managing IT alongside client work — licensing renewals, laptop setups, software conflicts, a defective workstation nobody sent back.

When we came in, we found hardware that was actively working against the team, security gaps nobody knew existed, and workflows everyone had accepted as normal that weren't.

1,000+ hours recovered annually

$0 extra charge for onboarding

From scratch security deployed

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Pontem Group

Vancouver, BC

First Light Energy: IT That Grows With the Firm

First Light Energy is a mechanical engineering firm that came on as a client when they had six people. They're at fifteen now.

They've never had a major IT crisis — not because nothing has gone wrong, but because we've been ahead of it. This year we're migrating them from SharePoint to Egnyte as their file management needs have outgrown what SharePoint handles well at their scale.

This is what IT is supposed to look like — not a rescue, just a partner that keeps up.

6 → 15 people, zero IT crises

SharePoint → Egnyte migration in progress

First Light Energy

Calgary, AB

Technology Slowing You Down?

Huntertech's innovative IT solutions empower architecture firms to design the future with confidence

Enhanced Performance

We work with your team to improve workflows, create standards and optimize Bluebeam and other design software

Seamless Collaboration

Working for home or in the office, Huntertech can help you find the right solution for your practice.

Enterprise Security

We use industry leading security tools and a layered approach to protect your data, your accounts and your business.

Frequently Asked Questions

We're engineers — we've been figuring out IT ourselves for years. Why would we need a managed IT provider?

Most engineering firms we work with were handling IT competently until they weren't. The gaps aren't usually obvious — they show up as accumulated risk: reused passwords that are likely already in breach databases, security tools that were installed but never configured properly, hardware specs based on information that's a few years out of date. We do a lot of assessments where everything looks fine from the outside and the findings are genuinely surprising. If you're curious what's actually in your environment, we're happy to take a look — no commitment required.

Our software stack is specialized — AutoCAD, simulation tools, multiple client VPNs. Can you actually support that?

Yes. Our clients run AutoCAD, Bluebeam, IES Virtual Environment, DWSIM, RETScreen, Pyrosim, and a range of process simulation and energy modeling tools. We also regularly manage multi-client VPN environments where staff need simultaneous access to several client networks. If you want to tell us what your team runs, we'll tell you honestly whether we've seen it before.