SR NETWORK ARCHITECT

TekWissen LLC

PHILADELPHIA, PA
6 days ago

Highlights

A senior architect who can independently assess a complex Cisco/VeloCloud environment, identify material risks and gaps, define the target architecture, and provide an actionable transformation roadmap to both engineering and executive stakeholders. Our client is an American multinational information technology services and consulting company and is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses.

Numbers & Facts

Location	PHILADELPHIA, PA
Industry	Computer/IT Services
Salary	$50
Company Size	100 to 499 employees
Year Founded	2009
Website	http://www.tekwissen.com/

Description

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is an American multinational information technology services and consulting company and is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses.

Job Title: SR NETWORK ARCHITECT
Location: PHILADELPHIA, PA 19104
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid

Job Description:

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Job Summary

Responsibilities

Assess current-state enterprise LAN, WAN, WLAN, Data Center and hybrid/cloud connectivity.
Strong hands-on architecture experience with Cisco enterprise switches and wireless Access Points.
Strong knowledge of VeloCloud SD-WAN architecture and design.
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 overall network availability, resiliency and disaster recovery readiness.
Assess network performance, capacity and future scalability.
Evaluate operational maturity covering monitoring, logging, alerting and observability.
Assess 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 around resiliency, simplicity, security, automation and scalability.
Recommend practical improvements based on business impact, risk, complexity and dependencies.
Develop a prioritized network transformation/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.
Must be capable of translating technical findings into business risk and operational impact.

Certifications Required

CCNP/CCIE Enterprise or equivalent expertise preferred

Years of Experience:

14 Years of Experience

Top Skills:

Mobility R&D
Cisco Meraki SDWAN
Cisco SD WAN
Cisco ACI
Cisco Edge Network Sec Sol
Cisco ACI SDN

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity

About Company

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.