Job Description
An Urgent Contract Opportunity for a Network Architect/Consultant.
This 8-12 week contract requires an expert in network engineering and architecture to assess, document, and provide recommendations on the current and future-state ICT fibre network infrastructure across four major Tasmanian public hospitals.
The focus will be on policy and standards for site fibre/comms resiliency, risk identification and redundancy, physical diversity of fibre pathways, remediation and implementation planning, and more.
Detailed Duties:
1. Resilient Network Requirements:
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* Confirm areas requiring resilient network infrastructure, including dual fibre backbone (A and B networks), power protection, and fire-protected rooms where applicable.
* Liaise with stakeholders to identify and confirm areas requiring high network resilience.
3. Define Resilience Zones:
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* Engage stakeholders to identify and confirm areas requiring high network resilience, such as major and district hospitals, community and multipurpose centres with inpatient services, and facilities with safety-critical systems dependent on WAN connectivity.
* Facilitate consensus through governance bodies.
5. WAN Performance Standards:
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* Define acceptable performance standards for resilient WAN connections in collaboration with stakeholders.
* Determine appropriate technologies per use case, including dual fibre, dual terrestrial, radio-based systems, and consider technology limitations.
7. Site Assessments:
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* Conduct physical and logical assessments of fibre infrastructure from Core Communications Rooms (CCRs) to Edge Communications Rooms (ECRs).
* Identify presence and adequacy of redundant fibre pathways and physically diverse routes.
9. Risk Identification:
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* Document key risks and single points of failure in current fibre layouts.
* Highlight gaps in redundancy, physical separation, and resilience.
11. Strategic Planning:
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* Develop a remediation and implementation plan for each site, including recommended upgrades or reconfigurations, prioritised actions based on risk and criticality, and high-level cost and effort estimates.
* Align recommendations with current and planned capital works and Master Planning activities at each site.
13. Integration with Capital Works:
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* Ensure future-state infrastructure is scalable and standards-compliant.
15. Stakeholder Engagement:
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* Liaise with DHHS ICT, hospital engineering teams, and capital works planners.
* Present findings and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.