Network Engineer (Enterprise Network Infrastructure & Data Center Operations)

Tekgence Inc is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to provide technical leadership and operational support for enterprise network infrastructure initiatives. The role involves acting as a trusted advisor, collaborating with internal stakeholders and third-party partners on network modernization and data center infrastructure projects.

Responsibilities:

• Provide subject matter expertise for ongoing network assessment, discovery, design, and routing improvement initiatives
• Serve as a technical liaison between internal stakeholders, infrastructure teams, and contracted third-party partners
• Review and validate network assessments, recommendations, designs, implementation plans, and technical deliverables produced by consulting partners
• Provide advisory support related to routing architecture improvements and data center network deployments
• Participate in technical reviews, architecture discussions, design validation sessions, and implementation planning activities
• Ensure proposed solutions align with business objectives, operational requirements, scalability goals, and industry best practices
• Assist with the planning and execution of routing enhancement efforts across enterprise and data center environments
• Provide advanced troubleshooting and support for complex network incidents, service requests, and operational issues
• Act as a senior escalation resource for networking, connectivity, routing, switching, and firewall-related challenges
• Facilitate communication and collaboration between networking, security, infrastructure, and operations teams
• Evaluate existing network environments and identify opportunities for optimization, modernization, resiliency, and performance improvements
• Provide technical guidance and recommendations regarding network architecture and infrastructure strategy
• Support root cause analysis and remediation planning for network outages and performance issues
• Actively participate in ongoing and planned network infrastructure projects
• Support project planning activities, including:
• Requirements gathering
• Risk assessments
• Solution development
• Timeline and implementation planning
• Technical design reviews
• Ensure network designs and implementations adhere to organizational standards and industry best practices
• Collaborate with project managers, engineers, vendors, and stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle
• Support migration planning, implementation activities, testing, and operational readiness reviews
• Assist with evaluating new technologies and infrastructure improvements
• Create and maintain detailed technical documentation including:
• Network diagrams
• Logical and physical topology maps
• Technical design documents
• Standard operating procedures
• Configuration standards
• Operational runbooks
• Ensure documentation accurately reflects production environments and architectural changes
• Provide knowledge transfer and mentoring support to operational and engineering teams

Requirements:

• Deep expertise in Cisco routing and switching
• Deep expertise in data center networking
• Deep expertise in Palo Alto firewalls
• Deep expertise in LAN/WAN architecture
• Deep expertise in network troubleshooting
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to collaborate across multiple technical teams
• Ability to assess complex environments
• Ability to provide architectural guidance
• Ability to support strategic infrastructure initiatives