Network Architect

Description

Plan and design secure network solutions to consolidate connectivity services under an enterprise service.

-Partner with key stakeholders and technical experts to perform legacy environment discovery, assessing current capabilities, configurations, and unique requirements to develop a design and architecture leveraging approved design patterns.

-Design secure wide area connectivity inclusive of underlay, overlay, and COI transport design that supports performance, quality of service, security, and mission requirements.

-Provide secure access solutions leveraging wired and wireless technologies, integrating standards, use cases/scenarios, and develop associated implementation and transition plans.

-Integrate capacity planning and scaling of network and security stack environments into the overall design of solutions.

-Collect, investigate, and identify network optimization strategies and techniques to meet capacity and performance standards.

-Identify legacy service paths (i.e. dataflow, firewall rulesets, and ACLs) and develop strategies and designs for the to-be enterprise service capability to meet requirements while balancing security, sustainability, and maintainability.

-Support development of IP addressing schemes across IPv4 and IPv6 networks.

-Work with information assurance teams to ensure compliance to DoD standards to assist with providing accreditation artifacts.

Skills

Network engineering, Firewall, Router, Ccna, Cisco routers, Wan, Cisco switches, Nexus, Bgp, Troubleshooting, Switches, Data center, Ccnp, Routing, Infrastructure, Network architecture

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

• Master's degree and 15-20+ years (ideally over 20 years); additional years of related work experience may be substituted for a degree.

• Must have a DoD IAT level II baseline certification, prior to start (Sec+).

• CISSP or CCIE active certification.

• Advanced/Professional level vendor certifications (Cisco, Juniper, Aruba, Palo Alto).

• 10+ years' experience engineering and troubleshooting networks, including extensive routing and switching experience such as MPLS, VPNs, routing protocols i.e. BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, switching protocols i.e. Spanning Tree Protocol, VLANs, LLDP, VoIP, Multicast protocols and emerging network technologies.

• In depth knowledge of IP network/subnet addressing.

• Experience presenting to customer management, customer stakeholders, and company management.

• Ability to travel up to 25% including OCONUS potential travel.

• Previous work experience providing engineering and operational services on DISA supported networks.

• Experience with Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager (CPPM) identity management solution.

• Demonstrated NET/SEC DevOps experience.

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.