Overview

Intrepid Solutions has an opportunity for an Enterprise Network Architect to support the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Chief Intelligence Officer (CIO) by supporting the design, transition, operations, and continual service improvement activities associated with DIA local area networks (LANs) and unified communications (UC) services.

Responsibilities

• Apply engineering and architectural expertise, including performing in-depth and complex network engineering involving all aspects of the network including core, distribution edge, border, Layer 3/2 routing and switching.
• Interact with and report architecture problems with lead engineers, including determining future bandwidth needs, conducting redundancy planning, and adopting infrastructure configurations according to vendor and industry best practices and standards to meet the business needs of the
• Document the design with multiple views for various usage levels (technical architectural level, business level, operational level, maintenance level, etc.).
• Provide support for implementing routing and switching protocols.
• Interpret customer requirements and develop internal requirements and design solutions for optimal enterprise communication services.
• Identify 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, and translate into enterprise objectives and requirements.
• Establish and maintain the baseline for enterprise network design.
• Perform customer requirement interpretation, develop internal network requirements to support the design and delivery of enterprise communication services.
• Establish enterprise network architecture baselines and works with network system engineering to allocate requirements to all elements of the enterprise network.
• Ensure designs comply with all applicable Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community, and International Partner interoperability/compatibility standards, current/future system plans, and security requirements.

OPERATING HOURS AND EXPECTATIONS:

• This position will have regular Monday-Friday work hours.

TRAVEL:

• Limited or minimal travel expected.

Qualifications

CLEARANCE:

• Active Top Secret clearance is required, with SCI or SCI eligibility, and Poly.

EDUCATION:

• BA or BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline (preferred).

CERTIFICATION(S):

• Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Routing and Switching (RS) (preferred).

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Extensive experience with planning, designing, and executing network hardware and software
• Well-versed in isolating and performing root-cause analysis to determine infrastructure design improvements and enhancements, software bugs and documenting necessary workarounds.
• Expertise in use of SDN technologies to automate network provisioning and increase redundancy and improve
• Ability to apply architectural knowledge to network diagrams, wiring, and cyber infrastructure documentation, processes, and procedures and suggesting improvements, as needed.
• Architect and transition large scale IP services for an enterprise.
• Plan and design Layer 2 and Layer3 large-scale IPv4 and IPv6 networks, inclusive of BGP Routing and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), Software Defined Networking (SDN) to automate network provisioning, increase redundancy and improve resiliency satellite based communication, enterprise network functions such as DNS, DHCP, NTP and
• Highly desired skill would be LTE/5G wireless technologies and integration of enterprise network with Cloud Services (AWS, Azure, etc.) via Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) BCAP (Boundary Cloud Access Point).
• Proven Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Architecture and Engineering expertise.

Intrepid Solutions and Services does not have a vaccination mandate applicable to all employees. To protect the health and safety of our employees and to comply with customer requirements, however, Intrepid may require employees in certain positions to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Vaccination requirements will depend on the status of the federal contractor mandate and customer site requirements.

Intrepid is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.