Network engineering
Cisco and Palo Alto platforms. Routing and switching, SD-WAN, and segmentation design.
For MSPs, VARs & integrators
Remote network and security engineering, delivered under your name.
Subcontract delivery for MSPs, VARs, and integrators: firewall migrations, segmentation, SD-WAN rollouts, and Ansible automation. 13+ years in enterprise infrastructure. Your SOW, your process, your customer.
How I work with partners
Your customer stays your customer.
I work as part of your delivery team, on your terms. The paperwork is settled before I see anything about your customer.
- White-label under your brand, email and ticketing when you want that.
- Mutual NDA and mutual non-solicit before any customer detail is shared.
- Your SOW and your change process. No production changes without your approval.
- Remote only, billed through NEIT on a 1099/C2C basis, never W2.
- Deliverables are yours on payment.
Services
What I deliver
Security & firewalls
Firewall policy reviews and rebuilds, and security platform migrations.
Systems
Windows and Linux servers, user accounts, and Microsoft 365 administration.
Cloud
Azure and Google Cloud.
Automation
Network automation with Ansible.
Audits & documentation
Written assessments, diagrams, and a prioritized fix list for environments nobody documented.
How cutovers run
A written cutover plan with pre- and post-checks and a tested rollback, run in your maintenance window under your change process. Documentation handed over when done.
Background
Experience
I'm James Kirkpatrick. NEIT is my practice, and I do the work myself.
- 13+ years in enterprise infrastructure
- Designed segmentation across global data centers
- Migrated thousands of users between security platforms
- SD-WAN rollouts
- Network automation at scale with Ansible
- Systems administration: Windows and Linux servers, user accounts, and Microsoft 365 administration
- Azure and Google Cloud
- Cisco and Palo Alto platforms
A sanitized one-page project summary is available on request, sent privately.
Contact
Talk about a project
Tell me the platform, the scope, and the window. Keep customer names out of it until the NDA is in place.
- James Kirkpatrick
- Northern Edge IT Consulting (NEIT)
- [email protected]
- Phone
- (909) 529-6128
- Location
- Based in Southern California. Remote work only.