Network Architect

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

The DES program is a highly 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.

• Plan and design secure network solutions to meet the needs of the DES program.
• Partner with key stakeholders and technical experts to perform legacy environment discovery, assessing current capabilities, configurations, and unique requirements.
• 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.
• 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.

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (preferred) 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 vender 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 (e.g. Visio, Powerpoint, Gliffy, Cameo, MagicDraw) 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.

• Certified Cisco Network Professional (CCNP) or equivalent.
• Demonstrate experience in one or more of the following enterprise network management tools such as 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.

$108,550.00 - $196,225.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.