Enterprise Network Architect

DescriptionWe are seeking an Enterprise Network Architect to join our Defense Enclave Services (DES) team. The program is focused on a large and complex IT discovery, design, and migration effort towards a Single Service Provider model for the Department of Defense.PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:Plan and design secure network solutions to consolidate connectivity services under an enterprise service.Partner with key stakeholders and technical experts to perform legacy environment discovery and develop a design and architecture leveraging approved design patterns.Design secure wide area connectivity inclusive of underlay, overlay, and COI transport design that supports performance, quality of service, security, and mission requirements.Provide secure access solutions leveraging wired and wireless technologies, integrating standards, use cases/scenarios, and develop associated implementation and transition plans.Integrate capacity planning and scaling of network and security stack environments into the overall design of solutions.Collect, investigate, and identify network optimization strategies and techniques to meet capacity and performance standards.Identify legacy service paths and develop strategies and designs for the to-be enterprise service capability to meet requirements while balancing security, sustainability, and maintainability.Support development of IP addressing schemes across IPv4 and IPv6 networks.Work with information assurance teams to ensure compliance to DoD standards to assist with providing accreditation artifacts.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math with 12-15 years' experience or Master's degree with 10-13 years of experience.Require network certification which shall meet or exceed a CCNA.Require active DoD IAT Level II (i.e. Security+) certification or equivalent prior to start.Experience documenting logical or physical designs using drawing tools to depict systems, subsystems, interfaces, components, and communications of I/T applications and infrastructure.Experienced and comfortable with conducting technical troubleshooting to resolve issues.Experience creating or executing a migration plan to move circuits, network traffic, services, applications, or data between environments or to a commercial cloud provider.Heavily experienced in upgrading and LCR of network devices.Must have broad exposure to common I/T infrastructure networking in the areas of LAN, WAN, TCP/UDP, IPSec, VPN, Proxies, Routing(L2/L3), and Firewalls.PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:Certified Cisco Network Professional (CCNP) or equivalent.Demonstrate experience in one or more of the following enterprise network management tools such as PaloAlto Panorama, SolarWinds, Cisco Prime, Cisco DNA, What's Up Gold, or Junos Space.Experience in designing and implementing VTC solutions.Experience with ScienceLogic SL1 and/or SolarWinds.Hands on experience with SD-WAN.Demonstrate expertise in design and improvement of complex and geographically enterprise networks.