Network Engineer (Contract)

Network Engineer

· Singapore, Onsite

· 6 mths renewable contract

· Experience Required: 10+ years

Job Summary

· Seeking an experienced Network Infrastructure professional to support switch migration, configuration, security hardening, validation, monitoring, documentation, and post-migration support.

Key Skills

· Primary Skills: Network Switch Migration; Network Infrastructure and Configuration; Network Security Hardening.

· Secondary Skills: Monitoring and Alerting; Network Documentation; Stakeholder Coordination and Support.

Key Responsibilities

· Review network architecture, design documents, migration requirements, hardware, software versions, licensing, compatibility, risks, dependencies, outage needs, and implementation scope.

· Develop and maintain implementation, migration, rollback, and testing plans in coordination with security, server, application, infrastructure, and operations teams.

· Build and configure network switches, including approved firmware or OS upgrades, initial configuration review, and readiness validation.

· Apply network security hardening standards by disabling unused ports and services and ensuring compliance with internal security and audit requirements.

· Integrate switches with enterprise monitoring platforms, including SNMP, Syslog forwarding, NetFlow or sFlow where applicable, interface utilization, performance, capacity, and environmental monitoring.

· Configure and validate operational alerts to ensure monitoring data is received and actionable by the relevant support teams.

· Perform pre-migration health checks, back up existing configurations, execute the approved migration plan, and minimize business downtime.

· Conduct connectivity testing, troubleshoot issues, review logs and alerts, optimize configurations where required, and provide post-migration support.

· Prepare and update network diagrams, switch configuration records, port mappings, IP addressing details, security configuration documents, monitoring records, release readiness documents, and migration reports.

· Provide knowledge transfer to operations teams and secure stakeholder sign-off after successful completion.