Immediate need for a talented Senior Network Engineer. This is a 06+months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Philadelphia, PA (Hybrid). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.
Job ID: 26-34008
Pay Range: $50/hr - $58/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).
Key Responsibilities:
- Assess current-state enterprise LAN, WAN, WLAN, Data Center, and hybrid/cloud connectivity.
- Leverage strong hands-on architecture experience with Cisco enterprise switches and wireless Access Points.
- Utilize your knowledge of VeloCloud SD-WAN architecture and design.
- Review core, distribution, and access-layer architecture, topology, and segmentation.
- Evaluate routing, switching, redundancy, convergence, and failover design.
- Analyze MPLS, Internet, VPN, SD-WAN, and hybrid connectivity architecture.
- Assess wireless architecture for coverage, capacity, resiliency, and scalability.
- Review network security architecture, including segmentation, trust boundaries, firewalls, and IDS/IPS integration.
- 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.
- 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.
- Translate technical findings into business risk and operational impact.
- Exhibit strong stakeholder management, documentation, presentation, and consulting skills.
Key Requirements and Technology Experience:
- 5+ years of experience in network engineering and architecture.
- Strong hands-on experience with Cisco enterprise switches and wireless Access Points.
- Knowledge of VeloCloud SD-WAN architecture and design.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience with network security architecture.
- Familiarity with DNS, DHCP, and IPAM services.
- Background in disaster recovery and network resiliency planning
Our client is a leading IT Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.
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