Senior Network Architect and Technical Leader

Overview

Readiness Delivered. At Kratos, we seek an entrepreneurial spirit balanced with discipline. The Senior Network Architect and Technical Leader will have 15+ years of progressive experience designing, implementing, modernizing, and supporting large-scale, remote manned/unmanned, mission-critical network environments. The candidate should bring deep expertise across WAN/LAN routing and switching, data center technologies, virtualization, and network security, with a proven ability to lead teams, modernize customer environments, and support complex government customers.

This role involves hands-on troubleshooting and maintenance, maintaining technical documentation, modernization initiatives, proactive consulting, and coaching of engineering staff. Experience supporting DoW and/or Intelligence Community customers is highly preferred.

• Work with Program and Customer Leadership to ensure Network Engineering requirements are understood and defined, align solutions, and strengthen long-term technical relationships.
• Architect, design, implement, and support scalable and secure WAN/LAN network solutions for DoW environments.
• Lead network modernization efforts, including device refreshes, routing changes, software deployments, and security hardening initiatives.
• Prototype network designs and issues using modeling environments (e.g., Cisco Modeling Labs) to validate and optimize architectures.
• Serve as a technical lead guiding teams of engineers through design, configuration, and stabilization of complex customer networks.
• Provide proactive consulting support, issue troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and performance optimization.
• Coach and mentor junior engineers, contribute to knowledge transfer, and support team development.
• Ensure secure system configuration, risk mitigation, and compliance with DoW and enterprise security standards.
• Participate in CDRL and technical artifact generation based on internal and customer prescribed schedules.
• Attend and support highly technical engineering team meetings.
• Develop and deliver effective customer presentations, communicating comfortably at a system level.
• Travel as necessary to attend customer meetings and establish/maintain remote system locations.

• U.S. citizenship with active DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field.
• Cisco CCNP (Required) or CCIE (Preferred).
• DoDM 8140.03 Certification (Security +, CASP+, CEH, CISM, CISSP, or equivalent).
• Experience supporting programs through SRR, PDR, CDR, or equivalent design reviews.
• 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in network architecture, engineering, and technical leadership.
• Extensive experience supporting large-scale enterprise or Department of War networks, ideally including the U.S. Air Force.
• Hands-on experience with network security technologies including ASA firewalls, hardening, and access control systems.
• Expertise with routing and switching technologies including OSPF, BGP, multicast protocols, LAN switching, and advanced WAN solutions (DMVPN, SD-WAN, SD-Routing).
• Strong data center experience across SAN, storage networking, High Availability (HA), power solutions, and virtualization (VMware, Linux).
• Demonstrated ability to lead engineering teams through complex network deployments and upgrades.
• Strong troubleshooting capabilities and ability to simulate, replicate, and resolve complex issues.
• Ability to articulate technical concepts orally and in written form for internal teams, external customers, and users.

• 15+ years of experience in network architecture, engineering, and technical leadership.
• Experience with network modeling and automation principles (e.g., CML).
• Experience supporting high availability and multi-site environments.
• Other advanced certifications and specialization tracks beyond CCIE.
• Experience working alongside or in a network architect role.
• Experience with cloud networking platforms and integrations.

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The grade-based pay range for this job is listed below. Individual salaries within that range are determined through a wide variety of factors including education, experience, knowledge, and skills.

Salary Range: $170,000-$185,000