Network Architect

Leidos is seeking a highly skilled Network Architect to support our Defense Enclave Services (DES) team at Ft. Meade, MD.

The DES program is a complex and demanding mission that requires expert technical and professional management to support DISA's enterprise Information Technology (IT) services. As a Network Architect, you will be responsible for designing and implementing secure network solutions to consolidate connectivity services under an enterprise service.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement secure network architectures to meet performance, quality of service, security, and mission requirements.
• Partner with key stakeholders and technical experts to perform legacy environment discovery, assessing current capabilities, configurations, and unique requirements.
• Develop and implement secure wide area connectivity solutions, including underlay, overlay, and COI transport design.
• 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 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.

Requirements:

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) with 12-15 years' experience or Master's degree with 10-13 years of experience.
• Require network certification which shall meet or exceed a CCNA (comparable vendor certification accepted upon review).
• Require active DoD IAT Level II (i.e. Security+) certification or equivalent prior to start.
• Experience documenting logical or physical designs using drawing tools to depict systems, subsystems, interfaces, components, and communications of I/T applications and infrastructure.
• Experienced and comfortable with conducting technical troubleshooting to resolve issues.
• Experience conducting site surveys or analyzing data obtained from site surveys.
• Experience creating or executing a migration plan to move circuits, network traffic, services, applications, or data between environments or to a commercial cloud provider.
• Heavily experienced in upgrading and lifecycle replacement (LCR) of network devices.
• Must have broad exposure to common I/T infrastructure networking in the areas of LAN, WAN, TCP/UDP, IPSec, VPN, Proxies, Routing(L2/L3), and Firewalls.
• Must have experience in working with two or more of the following vendor network technologies: Cisco, Juniper, F5, Aruba, Palo Alto, Dell, Brocade, and Fortinet.
• Demonstrate experience in designing and implementing medium to large network infrastructure and producing corresponding technical documentation.
• Must be able to work as part of a team to troubleshoot and resolve complex network issues.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including drafting SOPs and technical documentation.
• Requires ability to communicate with executive leadership regarding matters of significant importance to the organization/project.
• Must be able to present designs and plans to technical leadership personnel and boards for approvals.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certified Cisco Network Professional (CCNP) or equivalent.
• Demonstrate experience in one or more of the following enterprise network management tools: PaloAlto Panorama, SolarWinds, Cisco Prime, Cisco DNA, What's Up Gold, or Junos Space.
• Experience in designing and implementing VTC solutions.
• Experience with ScienceLogic SL1 and/or SolarWinds.
• Hands-on experience with SD-WAN.
• Demonstrate expertise in design and improvement of complex and geographically enterprise networks.
• Expert knowledge of DoD security requirements for network infrastructure.
• Demonstrate experience in system hardening of network infrastructure to include DoD STIG implementation.

About Leidos

Leidos is a leading provider of innovative solutions and services to the U.S. government and commercial customers. We are committed to delivering high-quality solutions that meet the needs of our customers.