Senior Network Architect

Title:
Senior Network Architect

Belong. Connect. Grow. with KBR!

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.

Why Join Us?

• Innovative Projects: KBR's work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.

• Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.
• Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

Job Description:

• Plan, model, simulate, design, install, maintain, manage, and coordinate the network.
• Test and analyze elements of network facilities, including power, software, security features, communications devices, communications lines, modems, and terminals and responsible for the overall integration of the enterprise network.
• Design and plan network communications systems.
• Review and analyze the existing network architecture, plan, and provide designs to implement current/modern upgrades to WAN/MAN/LAN technologies.
• Evaluate and report on new communications technologies to enhance capabilities of the network
• Provide specifications and detailed schematics and artifacts for network architecture.
• Conduct cost/benefit analysis and provide specific detailed information for hardware and software selection, implementation techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements.
• Conduct testing of network design.
• Advise and provide client hardware requirements, configurations, Standard Operation Procedures (SOPs) and limitations
• Design telecommunications circuit specifications.
• Deliver service catalog items for automatically provisioning network configurations utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Responsible for monitoring network statistics to ensure optimum performance.
• Responsible for monitoring network hardware operations to ensure properly set configuration options.
• Maintain technical expertise in all areas of network and computer hardware and software interconnection and interfacing, such as management, monitoring, automation, routers, switches, firewalls, and unified communications equipment.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Top Secret with SCI
• Information Assurance Technical (IAT) III Certification.
• Minimum of 12 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 10 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 7 years with Ph.D.; 4 years of additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a bachelor's degree.
• VMware Certified Professional-Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) AXELOS ITIL4 professional certification.
• Cloud, Automation, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) certificates/training may be required within 6 months of starting.
• Minimum of 5 years designing VMware NSX environments utilizing Software Defined Networking (SDN) principles, physical Internet Protocol/Fiber Channel networks, and routing protocols.
• Proven expertise with Cisco network platforms including management, monitoring, automation, routers, switches, firewalls, and unified communications equipment.
• Experience with Risk Management Framework (RMF), DODAF 2.0 standards, and Change Management Processes to ensure smooth network updates and configurations.
• Knowledge of Defense Information Systems Network (DISN) or Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) systems.
• Demonstrated skill in using MS Office applications for network design documentation, including advanced use of Visio for generating detailed technical drawings and diagrams.
• Proven experience designing, optimizing, and troubleshooting LAN, WAN, and low bandwidth networks protected by network encryptors.
• Experience utilizing network management solutions based on Netflow and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
• Proven experience in virtualized environments (e.g. Azure, VMware NSX).
• Proficiency with Automation tools and scripting (e.g. Ansible, Python, or similar).
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Expertise in gathering requirements and preparing presentations.
• Demonstrated ability to present technical subject matter effectively to VIP audiences.

Desired Qualifications:

• Professional certification in Cisco, Azure, VMware, and/or ITIL. (e.g., CCNP Enterprise, DevNet Professional, AZ-104).
• Minimum 10 years of Cisco (or similar) experience; proven expertise with Cisco network platforms including management, monitoring, automation, routers, switches, firewalls, and unified communications equipment.
• Experience designing Cisco ACI environments utilizing Software Defined Networking (SDN) principles, physical Internet Protocol/Fiber Channel networks, and routing protocols.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies for iterative network project management.

Basic Compensation:

$150,000 to $185,000

This range is for the Maryland area only

The offered rate will be based on the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities and/or experience and in consideration of internal parity.

Belong, Connect and Grow at KBR

At KBR, we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture. These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a People First company. That commitment is central to our team of team's philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong, Connect and Grow. We Deliver - Together.

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.