Network Architect

December 12

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Leidos

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Defense • Intel • Sensors • Health Systems • Enterprise IT

10,000+ employees

Founded 1969

🔒 Cybersecurity

🔬 Science

Description

• Leidos is seeking a Network Architect to join our Defense Enclave Services (DES) team at Ft. Meade, MD. • The DES program supports DISA's enterprise Information Technology (IT) services. • 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. • Provide secure access solutions leveraging wired and wireless technologies, integrating standards, use cases/scenarios, and develop associated implementation and transition plans.

Requirements

• 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 • Alternatively, experience planning or executing a technology refresh or lifecycle refresh of an existing I/T system • Heavily experienced in upgrading and 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 vender 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 • This shall include drafting SOPs and technical documentation • Requires ability to communicate with executive leadership (internally or client) regarding matters of significant important to the organization/project • Must be able to present designs and plans to technical leadership personnel and boards for approvals

Benefits

• Competitive compensation • Health and Wellness programs • Income Protection • Paid Leave • Retirement