Network Consultant

The Network Consultant will serve as a senior technical lead for large-scale enterprise infrastructure, data center deployments, migrations, refresh initiatives, and network modernization projects. The role combines strong hands-on networking expertise with infrastructure program leadership, stakeholder management, planning, documentation, and communication skills. The consultant will coordinate cross-functional teams across networking, cloud, security, storage, and infrastructure operations while supporting complex enterprise environments and driving initiatives from planning through execution. This is a hybrid role based in Frisco, TX, requiring onsite work two days per week. Key Responsibilities Lead enterprise infrastructure projects from initiation through successful completion. Drive data center migration, refresh, consolidation, and modernization efforts. Coordinate networking, security, cloud, storage, server, and infrastructure teams to deliver enterprise initiatives. Design, implement, and support large-scale data center networking solutions. Support and troubleshoot complex routing, switching, and network security environments. Manage project timelines, implementation plans, change management activities, budgets, and technical documentation. Develop infrastructure roadmaps, migration strategies, and deployment plans. Support network monitoring, performance optimization, and root cause analysis activities. Partner with vendors, business stakeholders, and technical teams to ensure successful project delivery. Create detailed architecture diagrams, implementation procedures, and operational documentation. Communicate project status, risks, dependencies, and technical considerations to stakeholders. Provide technical leadership across infrastructure modernization and network engineering initiatives. Required Qualifications Strong enterprise-level infrastructure and networking experience. Hands-on experience with Arista and Juniper networking technologies. Strong knowledge of enterprise networking, routing, and switching. Strong experience with BGP and OSPF. Hands-on experience with data center networking, including EVPN/VXLAN and spine-leaf architectures. Experience with Cisco Nexus, MPLS, VLANs, QoS, ACLs, DNS/DHCP, IPv4, and IPv6. Experience with SDN and SD-WAN technologies. Experience supporting enterprise data center operations, migrations, refreshes, and infrastructure modernization. Experience with storage, compute, virtualization, structured cabling, and facilities-related infrastructure. Strong network security experience, including Palo Alto, Fortinet, and/or Check Point. Knowledge of IDS/IPS, SIEM, device hardening, vulnerability management, and VPN technologies. Experience with network monitoring and performance tools such as SolarWinds, NetFlow, Infoblox, and Wireshark. Strong Technical Program Management or PMO experience, including project documentation, stakeholder communication, implementation planning, budgets, and governance. Experience managing project timelines, change management, implementation activities, and cross-functional technical teams. Strong infrastructure project leadership and stakeholder management skills. Preferred Qualifications Experience with infrastructure architecture and enterprise network architecture. Experience with cloud networking across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP. Experience with enterprise security architecture. Experience in Financial Services, Healthcare, Telecom, or other large enterprise environments. Experience leading multi-million-dollar infrastructure initiatives. Experience working as a Network Architect, Infrastructure Architect, Lead Network Engineer, Senior Network Engineer, Infrastructure Program Manager, Technical Program Manager, Principal Network Engineer, Data Center Architect, or Network Consultant. Experience with large-scale network modernization and data center transformation programs. #J-18808-Ljbffr Compunnel