Sr Network Engineer
About The Position
TekWissen is recruiting a Senior Network Engineer for a six-month temporary assignment with a hybrid work arrangement in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The role will conduct an end-to-end assessment of a mission-critical enterprise network environment, evaluate its architecture and operations, and recommend practical improvements and a prioritized transformation roadmap. The posting also describes the work as a Senior Network Architect assessment engagement. The engineer will examine enterprise LAN, WAN, WLAN, data center, and hybrid/cloud connectivity, with particular emphasis on Cisco enterprise switching and wireless access points and VeloCloud SD-WAN. The assessment covers architecture, availability, resiliency, security, performance, scalability, operational maturity, and documentation. The role includes technical discovery and stakeholder workshops, development of current-state and conceptual future-state diagrams, a network assessment report and gap analysis, and an executive presentation of findings, risks, and recommendations. The engineer must translate technical findings into business risk and operational impact.
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.
- Capability to translate technical findings into business risk and operational impact.
- Top skills listed: Cisco Edge Network Security Solutions, Core Network / Core Network - Wireless, and Mobility R&D.
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 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, alert fatigue, 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
Education Level
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