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 Summary
- 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.
Top Skills:
- Mobility R&D
- Cisco Meraki SDWAN
- Cisco SD WAN
- Cisco ACI
- Cisco Edge Network Sec Sol
- Cisco ACI SDN
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:
- 14.00 Years of Experience