Senior Network Architect

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Senior Network Architect

K ’s National Security Solutions team provides high‑end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

• Innovative Projects: K ’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.
• Collaborative Environment:
  Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.
• Impactful Work:
  Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

• Plan, model, simulate, design, install, maintain, manage, and coordinate the network.
• Test and analyze elements of network facilities, including power, software, security features, communications devices, communications lines, modems, and terminals and responsible for the overall integration of the enterprise network.
• Design and plan network communications systems.
• Review and analyze the existing network architecture, plan, and provide designs to implement current/modern upgrades to WAN/MAN/LAN technologies.
• Evaluate and report on new communications technologies to enhance capabilities of the network.
• Provide specifications and detailed schematics and artifacts for network architecture.
• Conduct cost/benefit analysis and provide specific detailed information for hardware and software selection, implementation techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements.
• Conduct testing of network design.
• Advise and provide client hardware requirements, configurations, Standard Operation Procedures (SOPs) and limitations.
• Design telecommunications circuit specifications.
• Deliver service catalog items for automatically provisioning network configurations utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Responsible for monitoring network statistics to ensure optimum performance.
• Responsible for monitoring network hardware operations to ensure properly set configuration options.
• Maintain technical expertise in all areas of network and computer hardware and software interconnection and interfacing, such as management, monitoring, automation, routers, switches, firewalls, and unified communications equipment.

• Top Secret with SCI
• Information Assurance Technical (IAT) III Certification.
• Minimum of 12 years with BS/BA;
  Minimum of 10 years with MS/MA;
  Minimum of 7 years with Ph.D.; 4 years of additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a bachelor’s degree.
• VMware Certified Professional‑Network Virtualization (VCP‑NV) AXELOS ITIL4 professional certification.
• Cloud, Automation, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) certificates/training may be required within 6 months of starting.
• Minimum of 5 years designing VMware NSX environments utilizing Software Defined Networking (SDN) principles, physical Internet Protocol/Fiber Channel networks, and routing protocols.
• Proven expertise with Cisco network platforms including management, monitoring, automation, routers, switches, firewalls, and unified communications equipment.
• Experience with Risk Management Framework (RMF), DODAF 2.0 standards, and Change Management Processes to ensure smooth network updates and configurations.
• Knowledge of Defense Information Systems Network (DISN) or Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) systems.
• Demonstrated skill in using MS Office applications for network design documentation, including advanced use of Visio for generating detailed technical drawings and diagrams.
• Proven experience designing, optimizing, and troubleshooting LAN, WAN, and low bandwidth networks protected by network encryptors.
• Experience utilizing network management solutions based on Netflow and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
• Proven experience…