Enterprise Network Architect Eng Lead (NOM Lead)

Job Summary The Enterprise Network Architect/Engineer (ENAE) Lead has primary and interdisciplinary skills to effectively cost and architect large-scale IP and TDM communication services for an enterprise. The ENAE Lead plans, designs, and supports a very high availability mission and administrative enterprise network with delineated service levels for performance, reliability, maintainability and availability. The ENAE Lead has the primary responsibility to lead the team to deliver the outlined mission, and ensure the team seamlessly collaborates with other IT Operations teams as well as the Cybersecurity and IT Projects and Governance groups. The ENAE Lead must demonstrate in-depth experience and be considered an expert in a variety of network technologies to include but not limited to the following: • Layer 2 and Layer3 development of large scale IPv4 and IPv6 networks, • Software Defined Networking (SDN), including SD-WAN implementations • Secure Transport via VPN/IPSec with IDS/IPS integration • Enterprise Network Functions such as DNS, DHCP, NTP and PTP • Integration of enterprise network with Cloud Services (AWS, Azure, etc.) Responsibilities: • Work on emerging high-profile projects and will be considered a subject matter expert and is responsible for meeting the business and technical requirements for the organization’s overall objectives. • Interprets customer requirements and develops internal requirements and design solutions for optimal enterprise communication services. • Identifies solutions based on alternative analysis, providing detailed assessments against requirements (technical, cost, business, security, schedule), establishing baseline for the enterprise network. • Assess customer objectives, goals, intents, requirements, standards, etc. and re-craft these multifaceted constituents to re-state the problem and translate into enterprise objectives and requirements. • Establishes and maintains the baseline for enterprise network design. • Performs customer requirement interpretation, develops internal network requirements to support the design and delivery of enterprise communication services • Establishes enterprise network architecture baselines and works with network system engineering to allocate requirements to all elements of the enterprise network. • Defines the TDM transition to IP and related services. • Develops trade-off alternatives evaluating make-buy feasibility by performing concept exploration using established trade-off techniques to identify the best solution inclusive of cost, schedule, function, performance, security, and risk using figures of merit. • Develops realistic use cases and scenarios that the program will encounter and tests various solutions performing proof of concept demonstrations or experiments. • Evaluates architecture solutions and creates models of the target architecture alternatives to study the positive/negative effects. Documents the design with multiple views for various usage levels (technical architectural level, business level, operational level, maintenance level, etc.) • Develops the system, subsystem, and hardware/software specifications inclusive of a concurrent engineering team. • Verifies conformance of the design to specification requirements and the established baseline. Minimum Requirements Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of experience in Computer Scientce or a related discipline OR An Associate Degree and 10 years of experience in Computer Science or a related discipline • Experience with basic networking principles/setup • Proven portfolio of large complex programs that required WAN/LAN architecture/design and applied system life cycle processes • Familiarity with US Federal Government/DOE engineering practices including specifications and standards • Able to attain DOE clearance • A Cisco Network Professional Level Certification Required such as CCNP Enterprise (routing & switching) or CCNP Security or CCNP Data Center Preferred Qualifications Requires a Bachelors Computer Science or related field with 6+ years of prior relevant experience WAN/LAN network architect