Senior Network Architect

About the position

KBR's National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country's most critical role - protecting our national security. KBR's work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions. Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace. Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

Responsibilities

• Tests and analyzes elements of network facilities, including power, software, security features, communications devices, communications lines, modems, and terminals.
• Responsible for the overall integration of the enterprise network.
• Responsible for planning, modeling, simulation, design, installation, maintenance, management, and coordination of the network.
• Review and analyze the existing network architecture and provide designs of current/modern WAN/MAN/LAN technologies.
• Recommend best practices such as SDN, Intent-based networking, and network segmentation protocols, etc., in order to improve the existing architecture and meet new networking requirements.
• Design telecommunications circuit specifications.
• Providing comprehensive systems and network engineering and architectural planning services.
• Identify the need for routers, switches, and encryption devices to support enterprise services.
• Deliver service catalog items for automatically provisioning network configurations to deliver Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Develop and maintain network architecture specifications and artifacts.
• Conduct multidisciplinary research and collaborate with cross-functional engineering and development teams in the planning, design, development, and utilization of Cloud-based capabilities for the development, modification, and deployment of software.
• Interface with O&M personnel by providing strategic design and support to projects as directed.
• Comprehensively review existing architectures on a regular basis, recommending, and assisting with the design and implementation of systems and network improvements as required.
• Support efforts for cybersecurity technology, risks identification and risk mitigation strategies related to cybersecurity.
• Engineer and upgrade LAN, WAN and VoIP infrastructures, voice and data network systems, and administration of multi-protocol routers, multilayer switches, network security devices and network management systems.
• Provide support to Application delivery networking, Cloud computing, End Point management, and desktop computing.
• Work with vendors, the Government, carriers, and technical staff on network implementation, optimization, and ongoing management.
• Provide high-level support and technical expertise in networking technology, including LAN/WAN hardware, switches, bridges, and routers.

Requirements

• Clearance: Top Secret with SCI
• 12 years' experience with BS/BA or 10 years with MS/MA.
• Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE) and VMware VCP-NV certifications.
• 10 years of Cisco experience; proven expertise with Cisco network hardware including: routers, switches, firewalls, unified communications equipment.
• 5 years with VMware, experience in virtual and physical internet protocol and Fiber Channel networks and routing protocols.
• Experience with Defense Information System Network (DISN) circuits and Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES).
• Experience in designing, optimizing, and troubleshooting LAN, WAN and low bandwidth networks protected by network encrypters.
• Experience designing VMware NSX Software Defined Networking.
• Experience with Cisco network hardening including routers, switches, firewalls, unified communications equipment.
• Experience utilizing network management solutions based on NetFlow and Simple Network Management Protocols (SNMP).
• Experience with DevOps, automating and scripting.
• Experience with RMF and DODAF 2.0 documentation standards and Change Management.
• Information Assurance Certifications consistent with the 8570 IAT Level III

Nice-to-haves

• Professional certification in Cisco, and/or VMware.
• ITIL certification.

Benefits

• 401K plan with company match
• medical
• dental
• vision
• life insurance
• AD&D
• flexible spending account
• disability
• paid time off
• flexible work schedule