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# Senior Network Architect/SME in Service Provider Backbone, Enterprise Level LAN/WAN, QoS and Traf... in Bethesda

- **Company:** Energy Jobline
- **Location:** Bethesda, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $149,027.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cyber Security, Data Centers, Network Architecture, Routing, Software Vulnerability Management, Wide Area Networks, Cisco
- **Published:** July 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.energyjobline.com/job/senior-network-architect-sme-enterprise-level-data-center-and-cloud-bethesda-30545861

## About the Role

* CCIE Certification: Written and practical
 * Within each of the Cisco Certifications, the following specializations are needed and listed in order of importance: Routing and Switching, Service Provider, Data Center and Wireless
 * Clearance Required: Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

## Description

The SME role's responsibilities include:

 * Coordinate with the Section Manager to evaluate, design, and test architecture designs and services from the roadmap backlog
 * Lead the transition of user accepted designs and services to the Operations and Security Teams
 * Provide subject matter expertise in Service Provider backbone.
 * Provide subject matter expertise in Enterprise-level LAN/WAN
 * Provide subject matter expertise in Enterprise-level Quality of Service (QoS)
 * Provide subject matter expertise in Enterprise-level Traffic Engineering

The Network Architecture role's responsibilities include:

 * Strategically plan, architect, design, engineer, develop, test, implement, modernize, and enhance the functional capabilities, capacity, and performance of the NIH Network and TIC Services in alignment with NIH future state architecture objectives
 * Software and hardware installation, configuration, upgrades, and maintenance
 * Team with the Security Section to achieve security architecture requirements
 * Maintain technical architecture documentation
 * Troubleshooting and problem resolution
 * Change management
 * Support resources responsible for security implementation, monitoring, maintenance, and vulnerability remediation
 * Strategic & Transformative planning for network architecture services


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