Network Architect – Contract (Singapore)

About the role

QUESS Engineering is seeking an experienced Network Architect on a contract basis to lead its Network Services Management team across datacentres, campuses, remote offices and public cloud environments in Singapore.

Key responsibilities

• Lead network deployment projects, ensuring timely and successful implementation of solutions.
• Manage vendor relationships and third‑party providers for solution architecture, equipment procurement and installation.
• Provide Tier‑3 support for network and security issues and participate in a rotating on‑call schedule.
• Create, maintain and review high‑level and low‑level designs, as well as operational practices.
• Drive efficiency through network automation.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or equivalent.
• 8+ years of experience with core network technologies, including Cisco ACI, firewalls, load balancers and cloud migrations.
• Proven ability to design, implement and oversee large‑scale network deployments.
• Strong project and vendor management skills with excellent communication abilities.

Required skills

• Cisco ACI Multi‑Pod / Multi‑Site deployments
• Checkpoint and Palo Alto firewalls & IPS
• F5 load balancers and WAF
• LAN, WAN and network security technologies
• Automation tools such as Ansible and Terraform
• Infoblox IPAM, DNS, DHCP
• Bluecoat proxy, Akamai CDN (optional)
• Illumio, Guardicore micro‑segmentation (optional)
• SolarWinds, Riverbed, ThousandEyes monitoring (optional)
• Wireshark packet analysis (optional)
• NAC, ISE, Algosec security management (optional)

What we offer

• Competitive monthly salary between SGD 8,000 and SGD 9,200
• Opportunity to work on high‑impact enterprise and cloud network projects
• Collaborative environment with leading technology partners