Director Adaptive Network Infrastructure & Security

Overview

About Us:

Working across the globe, V2X builds smart solutions designed to integrate physical and digital infrastructure from base to battlefield. We bring 120 years of successful mission support to improve security, streamline logistics, and enhance readiness. Aligned around a shared purpose, our $4.5B company and 16,000 people work alongside our clients, here and abroad, to tackle their most complex challenges with integrity, respect, responsibility, and professionalism.

• The Director of Adaptive Network Infrastructure & Security is a senior technical leadership role responsible for designing, implementing, and operating a modern, self-adapting, AI-optimized network that serves as the transport backbone for the organization’s enterprise AI Fabric. Reporting to the VP of Intelligent Automation and IT Operations, this leader will drive the transition to a Zero Trust architecture, manage all aspects of core networking and telecommunications, deploy Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) capabilities, and ensure the network is purpose-built to carry AI workloads — including low-latency inference traffic, and agent-to-agent communication.
  
  This role is critical to establishing a greenfield IT operational environment, building a network foundation that is resilient, AI-aware, and compliant from day one. In the AI-First IT model, infrastructure is no longer static and human-managed — it is dynamic, AI-optimized, and self-adapting. This director will lead that transformation.

  Key Responsibilities:

• Zero Trust Architecture & Implementation

• Architect and lead the enterprise-wide implementation of a Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) framework aligned to NIST 800-207 and CMMC compliance requirements.

• Define and enforce network segmentation, micro-segmentation, and least-privilege access policies across all environments — for human users, devices, and AI agents alike.

• Integrate identity-aware networking principles to ensure all users, devices, automated workloads, and AI agents are continuously verified before gaining network access.

• Extend Zero Trust policies to cover machine identities: define ZTNA access controls for AI agents, automation pipelines, and non-human actors operating within the network environment.

• Collaborate with the CISO and security teams to embed security-by-design into all network architectures and lifecycle decisions.

• Manage secrets, credentials, and sensitive configuration data securely.

• SASE Design & Deployment

• Lead the evaluation, selection, and deployment of SASE platforms to unify network and security functions at the edge.

• Implement Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), and Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) capabilities within the SASE framework.

• Drive the migration to a cloud-delivered, identity-centric access model.

• Manage ongoing performance tuning, policy management, and vendor relationships for all SASE technologies.

• Ensure SASE policies explicitly address AI agent traffic, model API calls, and automated workload egress — not only human user sessions.

• AI Fabric Network Architecture

• Design and operate the network as an AI transport fabric: architect low-latency, high-throughput network paths optimized for AI model inference traffic, LLM API calls, and real-time agent communication.

• Define AI-aware Quality of Service (QoS) policies that prioritize AI workload traffic appropriately alongside standard enterprise traffic.

• Collaborate with the AI Engineering team to ensure the network layer meets the performance, reliability, and latency requirements of the AI Fabric and agent orchestration platforms.

• Monitor and optimize network performance for AI workloads using telemetry data, proactively identifying and remediating bottlenecks in the AI traffic path.

• Core Networking & Telecommunications

• Oversee the operations of enterprise the campus network infrastructure.

• Manage telecommunications infrastructure including voice, unified communications, and carrier relationships.

• Ensure network availability, capacity, and performance meet 99.99% SLA targets across all sites and remote environments.

• Lead network lifecycle management including hardware…