Sr Network Architect
About The Position
TekWissen is recruiting a Senior Network Architect for a six-month temporary assignment in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The role is hybrid. The architect will independently assess a complex Cisco/VeloCloud environment, identify material risks and gaps, define a target architecture, and develop an actionable transformation roadmap for engineering and executive stakeholders. The work covers enterprise LAN, WAN, WLAN, data center, and hybrid/cloud connectivity, including architecture, security, resilience, performance, scalability, and operational maturity. The architect will conduct technical discovery and stakeholder workshops, produce an Enterprise Network Assessment Report and Gap Analysis, and present key findings, risks, and recommendations to executives. The position requires 14 years of experience. CCNP/CCIE Enterprise or equivalent expertise is preferred.
Requirements
- 14 years of experience.
- Strong hands-on architecture experience with Cisco enterprise switches and wireless access points.
- Strong knowledge of VeloCloud SD-WAN architecture and design.
- Ability to independently assess a complex Cisco/VeloCloud environment and communicate technical findings to engineering and executive stakeholders.
Nice To Haves
- CCNP/CCIE Enterprise certification or equivalent expertise.
- Experience with Mobility R&D, Cisco Meraki, Cisco SD-WAN, Cisco ACI, Cisco Edge Network Security Solutions, and Cisco ACI SDN.
Responsibilities
- Assess current-state enterprise LAN, WAN, WLAN, data center, and hybrid/cloud connectivity.
- Review core, distribution, and access-layer architecture, topology, and segmentation.
- Assess routing, switching, redundancy, convergence, and failover design.
- Evaluate MPLS, Internet, VPN, SD-WAN, and hybrid connectivity architecture.
- Review wireless architecture for coverage, capacity, resiliency, and scalability.
- Assess network security architecture, including segmentation, trust boundaries, firewalls, and IDS/IPS integration.
- Review DNS, DHCP, and IPAM services and dependencies.
- Identify physical and logical single points of failure across devices, circuits, power, and network paths.
- Evaluate network availability, resiliency, disaster recovery readiness, performance, capacity, and future scalability.
- Evaluate operational maturity, including monitoring, logging, alerting, observability, incident response readiness, and troubleshooting processes.
- Review configuration management, change control, and network documentation practices.
- Identify architectural gaps, technical debt, operational risks, and constraints.
- Develop current-state and conceptual future-state architecture diagrams.
- Define target design principles for resiliency, simplicity, security, automation, and scalability.
- Recommend practical improvements based on business impact, risk, complexity, and dependencies.
- Develop a prioritized network transformation and remediation roadmap with high-level implementation phases.
- Conduct technical discovery and architecture workshops with customer stakeholders.
- Produce an Enterprise Network Assessment Report and Gap Analysis.
- Prepare and deliver an executive-level presentation of findings, risks, and recommendations.
- Translate technical findings into business risk and operational impact.
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