Network Engineer SME

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* This position will be a W2 Contract for 6 months potential to be extended or converted FTE - Eligibility to obtain Government clearance

JOB SUMMARY:

The Principal Network Subject Matter Expert (SME) will serve as the technical authority for enterprise network architecture, modernization, resiliency, security, and performance on a high-priority federal infrastructure program. The SME will set technical direction, establish standards, and advise customer and program leadership across mission-critical environments.

The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on expertise to approve designs, develop target-state architectures and migration plans, resolve complex issues, and serve as the final technical escalation point. The SME will mentor engineering teams, coordinate cross-functional execution, and work primarily onsite at secure customer locations.

SUMMARY OF

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Serve as the onsite network technical authority and trusted advisor to customer and program leadership.
• Define network architecture principles, engineering standards, reference designs, and technology roadmaps for mission-critical environments.
• Assess network architecture, performance, capacity, resiliency, security, dependencies, and failure domains across enterprise, data-center, HPC, manufacturing, test, and remote-site environments.
• Develop and approve target-state architectures, bills of material, migration strategies, implementation plans, test plans, and operational-readiness criteria.
• Lead technical discovery, architecture reviews, and risk assessments; evaluate design alternatives and provide authoritative recommendations.
• Ensure network solutions meet requirements for routing, switching, segmentation, security, high availability, remote access, inter-site connectivity, observability, and disaster recovery.
• Serve as the final technical escalation point for complex incidents and performance issues, lead root-cause analysis, and drive corrective actions.
• Establish configuration, documentation, monitoring, and operational standards that improve consistency, supportability, and service performance.
• Communicate technical decisions, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs to customer…