Sr Network Engineer
About The Position
TekWissen is seeking a Senior Network Architect to conduct an end-to-end assessment of a mission-critical enterprise network environment. The role assesses the current state of enterprise LAN, WAN, WLAN, data center, and hybrid/cloud connectivity, then develops conceptual future-state architecture and practical recommendations. The position includes technical discovery and architecture workshops with customer stakeholders, preparation of an Enterprise Network Assessment Report and Gap Analysis, and delivery of an executive-level presentation of findings, risks, and recommendations. The successful candidate must translate technical findings into business risk and operational impact and demonstrate strong stakeholder management, documentation, presentation, and consulting skills. The assignment is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is hybrid, and has a stated duration of six months.
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.
- Strong stakeholder management, documentation, presentation, and consulting skills.
- Ability to translate technical findings into business risk and operational impact.
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 key findings, risks, and recommendations.
- Translate technical findings into business risk and operational impact.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Senior
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