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 stakeholders, program leadership, project managers, and engineering teams.
Coordinate technical execution across network, security, systems, storage, facilities, DevOps, application, and program teams.
Mentor engineers, provide technical oversight, and strengthen network engineering practices across the program.
Qualification
Expertise with Cisco enterprise routingAdvanced knowledge of BGPStrong knowledge of network securityProven ability to assess technical riskKnowledge of EVPN/VXLANKnowledge of NIST 800-171Familiarity with TDMYEARS OF EXPERIENCEEDUCATION
Required
The successful candidate will demonstrate deep network expertise, sound architectural judgment, and the ability to make technical decisions across customer, government, contractor, and engineering organizations.
10+ years of progressively responsible experience designing, modernizing, and supporting complex enterprise networks.
Demonstrated experience serving as a network architect, technical authority, or senior escalation resource in mission-critical environments.
Expertise with Cisco enterprise routing, switching, firewall, VPN, and data-center technologies.
Advanced knowledge of BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VRFs, QoS, multicast, segmentation, high availability, and resilient network design.
Experience developing and approving network architectures, standards, bills of material, migration strategies, implementation plans, test plans, and operational documentation.
Strong knowledge of network security, including firewall policy, micro-segmentation, secure remote access, network access control, and Zero Trust principles.
Expert-level troubleshooting and root-cause analysis across routing, performance, availability, DNS, DHCP, NTP, IP address management, authentication, and application connectivity.
Experience with monitoring and observability technologies, including telemetry, SNMP, syslog, NetFlow/IPFIX, packet capture, alerting, and performance baselining.
Proven ability to assess technical risk, evaluate design trade-offs, and communicate authoritative recommendations to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
Ability to lead cross-functional technical execution, mentor senior engineers, and work independently onsite in secure, regulated, federal, defense, manufacturing, or comparable environments.
Initial 6‐month contract with strong potential for extension and possible conversion to a long-term full-time role.
Preferred
Knowledge of EVPN/VXLAN, software-defined networking, data-center fabrics, and high-performance or low-latency networks.
Experience architecting network integration for VMware, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Tanzu, AWS, and hybrid-cloud platforms.
Network automation experience using Python, Ansible, APIs, infrastructure as code, or CI/CD practices.
Experience supporting operational technology, manufacturing, specialized test equipment, legacy platforms, air-gapped environments, or systems with limited maintenance windows.
Knowledge of NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, CMMC, vulnerability management, SIEM/EDR integration, and secure software-import processes.
Familiarity with TDM, serial circuits, and specialized communications technologies.
YEARS OF EXPERIENCE: 10+ years of experience
EDUCATION: Bachelor’s Degree in a related field of study preferred but not required
