Network Discovery Lead

The Network Discovery Lead will oversee a team of network engineers and analysts responsible for performing virtual and physical discovery of DAFA networks and associated analyses to establish a detailed network migration plan for each DAFA’s journey to the DoDNet environment.

Must be willing to commute to Ft. Meade, MD 2 days per week and require an active DOD Secret clearance.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple teams of engineers and analysts tasked with performing physical and virtual discovery of DAFA networks and analysis of collected data to establish a detailed plan for network migrations to DoDNet.
• Mentor network engineers while collaborating closely with the Network Engineering Lead and Project Managers to ensure alignment and team growth.
• Continuously seek process enhancements to streamline and accelerate network discovery, analysis, and planning.
• Plan and design secure network solutions to consolidate or migrate connectivity services under an enterprise service.
• Partner with key stakeholders and technical experts to perform legacy environment discovery, assessing current capabilities, configurations, and unique requirements to develop a design and architecture that uses standard design patterns.
• Design secure wide area connectivity inclusive of underlay, overlay, and COI transport design that supports performance, quality of service, security, and mission requirements.
• Provide secure access solutions leveraging wired and wireless technologies, integrating standards, use cases/scenarios, and develop associated implementation and transition plans.
• Integrate capacity planning and scaling of network and security stack environments into the overall design of solutions.
• Collect, investigate, and identify network optimization strategies and techniques to meet capacity and performance standards.
• Identify legacy service paths (i.e. dataflow, firewall rulesets, and ACLs) and develop strategies and designs for the to-be enterprise service capability to meet requirements while balancing security, sustainability, and maintainability.
• Support development of IP addressing schemes across IPv4 and IPv6 networks.
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• Experience managing teams of engineers, including mentoring and fostering communication and collaboration across the team.
• Experience documenting logical and physical designs using drawing tools (e.g. Visio, Powerpoint, Gliffy, Cameo, MagicDraw) to depict systems, subsystems, interfaces, components, and communications of IT applications and infrastructure.
• Experience conducting site surveys or analyzing data obtained from site surveys.
• Experience creating or executing a migration plan to move circuits, network traffic, services, applications, or data between environments or to a commercial cloud provider.
• Significant experience upgrading and LCR of network devices.
• Expertise with common IT infrastructure networking in the areas of LAN, WAN, TCP/UDP, IPSec, VPN, Proxies, Routing(L2/L3), and Firewalls.
• Experience working with two or more of the following network technologies: Cisco, Juniper, F5, Aruba, Palo Alto, Dell, Infoblox, Brocade, and Fortinet.
• Experience in designing and implementing medium to large network infrastructure and producing corresponding technical documentation.
• Able to work as part of a team to troubleshoot and resolve complex network issues.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience presenting designs and plans to technical leadership personnel and boards for approvals.
• Current IAT Level II (or higher) Certification such as Security + or CISSP
• Must have an active DOD Secret clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certified Cisco Network Professional (CCNP) or equivalent.

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