Services

Six ways to work together. Most clients start with a short call and either a block of troubleshooting hours or a scoped project.

Troubleshooting and rescue

A VPN that won't come up, a fabric throwing anomalies, BGP sessions that flap, DHCP that stopped handing out leases. I work remotely through a screen share or read-only access, find the cause, fix it, and write up what changed.

Hourly, or a prepaid block of hours you draw down as needed.

Design and build

New data center fabrics, campus networks, firewall edges and routing designs on Juniper, from requirements through a tested deployment. Includes the design document, build, validation and handover.

Fixed-scope project with a written statement of work.

Automation and infrastructure as code

Apstra fabrics, Infoblox DDI and Junos configuration defined in Terraform and Ansible, kept in Git and deployed through a pipeline. I can automate a network I build, or add automation to one that was built by hand.

Project, or an assessment followed by a first automation project.

Migrations

Moving firewalls onto SRX, M series routers onto MX, other vendors' switching onto EX and QFX, and Microsoft DNS, DHCP and BIND onto Infoblox. Every migration gets a cutover runbook and a rollback plan.

Fixed-scope project.

Training and knowledge transfer

Team training on Infoblox, Apstra, Terraform for networks and Juniper operations, delivered on-site or remotely. I taught Infoblox's official curriculum as a contracted instructor, and I build training into every project so your team can run what I leave behind.

Per day, or bundled with a project.

Fractional network architect

A standing number of hours each month for design reviews, change reviews, vendor evaluations and escalations, for teams that need senior judgment but not a full-time hire.

Monthly retainer.