Network Architect III

Chicago, IL - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 7 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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 a global transformation and BPM company that blends deep process expertise with technology analytics and AI hiring at scale across operations and IT-making them a high-volume but quality-focused staffing client.

Job Title: Network Architect III

Duration: 11 Months

Work Location: 130 E Randolph Prudential Plaza Chicago IL

Work Type: Temporary Assignment

Job Type: Onsite

Pay Rate: $45-50/hr. on W2

Job Description:

The Network Manager is responsible for leading the design implementation operations and continuous optimization of the organizations enterprise network infrastructure across multiple data centers. This role combines deep technical expertise with people leadership strategic planning operational governance and vendor management to ensure a secure scalable highly available and high performance network environment.

Key Responsibilities

Network Strategy Design and Architecture

Define own and maintain the enterprise network architecture standards and long term roadmap across LAN WAN MAN and data center environments.
Provide architectural oversight for complex multi data center and hybrid network designs.
Design scalable resilient and secure network architectures to support business growth and digital transformation.
Review and approve high level designs technical specifications and major network changes.
Develop and maintain detailed network diagrams standards and design documentation.
Collaborate with business leaders application teams cloud teams and security teams to translate business needs into technical network requirements.

Network Implementation and Operations

Oversee the deployment configuration and lifecycle management of enterprise network infrastructure including:

Routers switches firewalls VPN concentrators and load balancers
Ensure consistent configuration standards and operational best practices across all network environments.
Establish and enforce operational processes SLAs KPIs and change management procedures.
Act as the senior escalation point for critical network incidents outages and complex troubleshooting.
Lead root cause analysis (RCA) post incident reviews and implementation of preventive measures.
Ensure effective disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity strategies for network infrastructure.

Documentation Governance and Continuous Improvement

Ensure comprehensive documentation of network architecture configurations procedures and standards.
Establish governance frameworks for network design reviews risk management and compliance.
Stay current with emerging networking technologies security threats and industry best practices.
Drive standardization automation and modernization initiatives where appropriate.

Technical Skills and Expertise

Advanced knowledge of enterprise networking protocols and architectures including:

TCP/IP BGP OSPF EIGRP MPLS
Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching and routing
VLANs trunking STP VPC EVPN
Expertise in designing high availability redundant and fault tolerant network architectures.

Data Center and Multi Site Networking

Extensive experience supporting multi data center environments and inter DC connectivity.
Knowledge of spine leaf and data center fabric architectures.
Understanding of load balancing technologies (L4/L7 concepts) and traffic distribution strategies.
Experience designing for disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity use cases.

Network Security Technologies

Strong understanding of network security architecture and best practices.

Experience with:

Firewalls (including NGFW concepts)
IDS/IPS
Network segmentation and access control
VPN technologies (site to site remote access IPSec SSL)
Encryption authentication and secure tunneling
Ability to align network security controls with compliance requirements and enterprise security frameworks.
Experience with enterprise network monitoring logging and management tools.
Strong capability in advanced troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
Ability to interpret traffic flows latency and throughput trends to drive optimization.
Familiarity with ITIL aligned incident problem and change management practices.

Hands on and leadership experience with enterprise networking vendors such as:

Cisco
Juniper
Palo Alto
Other leading hardware and security vendors
Automation and Modern Networking (Preferred)
Exposure to network automation scripting or orchestration concepts.
Familiarity with hybrid and cloud connected networking models.
Understanding of configuration standardization and infrastructure lifecycle management.

Qualifications

Required

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field or equivalent professional experience.
12 years of experience in enterprise network engineering and operations.
3 5 years in a network leadership or management role.
Proven experience managing large scale multi data center network environments.
Strong leadership communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred

Professional certifications such as CCNP CCIE JNCIP JNCIE or equivalent.
Experience leading network modernization or transformation initiatives.
Financial and project management experience.

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

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 a global transformation and BPM company that blends deep process expertise with technology analytics and AI hiring at sc...