Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field and 7+ years of experience, or an advanced degree with 4+ years of experience.
Minimum 8 years of related experience in network architecture.
Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking, subnetting, and VLANs.
Hands-on experience with routing protocols and redundancy technologies.
Experience designing segmented networks with security measures.
Proficiency in network monitoring and performance analysis tools.
U.S. citizenship with active DoD Secret security clearance.
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain network architecture for radar systems and labs.
Define network requirements for performance and reliability.
Design secure IP network solutions with various technologies.
Eliminate single points of failure in network design.
Create detailed network diagrams and implementation packages.
Establish network configuration standards and documentation.
Support integration and testing of network systems.
Benefits
Opportunities for professional development and training.
Support for occasional travel to operational sites.
Engagement in cutting-edge radar technology projects.
Collaborative work environment with a focus on innovation.
Full Job Description
Overview
As a part of the V2X Ground-Based Radar Development (GBRD) team, we are a part of an exciting opportunity to design and field a Common Radar Back End supporting UEWR, PARCS, COBRA DANE, and AN/FPS-85 radar sites.
Responsibilities
We are seeking a Senior Network Architect to design and mature the network architecture that underpins GBRD's mission systems, labs, and operational radar sites. This role is central to enabling a secure, resilient, MOSA-aligned back-end platform hosting containerized radar applications and integrating with multiple integration laboratories serving operational radar sites.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop and maintain network architecture for development laboratories, systems integration environments, computing platforms, and operational radar sites.
Define network requirements for routing, switching, segmentation, redundancy, availability, latency, throughput, quality of service, multicast, timing, and future growth.
Design secure Internet Protocol network solutions using routers, switches, firewalls, virtual private networks, load balancers, and network management services.
Identify and eliminate single points of failures (SPOF) when possible.
Develop logical and physical network diagrams, rack elevations, cable schedules, port assignments, addressing plans, interface definitions, and implementation packages.
Develop and maintain network configuration standards, device templates, naming conventions, backup procedures, and configuration-controlled baseline documentation.
Design and validate high-availability and failover capabilities using appropriate routing, switching, link aggregation, gateway redundancy, and path-diversity technologies.
Coordinate network interfaces with compute, storage, virtualization, container platforms, software applications, cybersecurity tools, and external mission systems.
Support network design for containerized and virtualized environments, including cluster networking, service communication, ingress, egress, load balancing, and network policy enforcement.
Plan and lead laboratory integration, site installation, cutover, fallback, checkout, acceptance testing, and transition to operations.
Develop network integration and test procedures and support troubleshooting, fault isolation, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and retest.
Monitor and evaluate network performance, utilization, availability, faults, and capacity using approved network management and telemetry tools.
Support centralized logging, time synchronization, audit collection, configuration monitoring, and network telemetry integration.
Coordinate with cybersecurity personnel to implement approved segmentation, access-control, encryption, identity, authentication, hardening, and monitoring requirements.
Provide network design artifacts and technical evidence in support of security assessments and authorization activities.
Evaluate hardware and software alternatives and provide recommendations based on technical performance, interoperability, lifecycle support, supply-chain risk, cost, and schedule.
Support technical reviews and clearly communicate network status, risks, dependencies, issues, and design decisions to engineering and program stakeholders.
Support occasional travel to integration facilities & operational sites.
Qualifications
EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION:
Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Information Technology, or related technical discipline and at least 7 years of relevant experience.
An advanced degree in a related discipline and at least 4 years of relevant experience may be accepted.
Additional directly relevant network engineering experience may be considered in place of a degree or generalized experience.
Required Qualifications:
Minimum 8 years related experience
Strong knowledge of Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol networking, subnetting, Virtual Local Area Networks, routing, switching, multicast, Domain Name System, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, Network Time Protocol, and network management.
Hands-on experience with routing protocols and redundancy technologies such as Border Gateway Protocol, Open Shortest Path First, Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol, Hot Standby Router Protocol, Spanning Tree Protocol, and link aggregation.
Experience designing segmented networks using routers, switches, firewalls, access-control lists, virtual private networks, and network security zones.
Experience developing network diagrams, addressing plans, interface control information, equipment lists, cable schedules, port maps, and implementation instructions.
Experience with network monitoring, packet capture, performance analysis, fault isolation, configuration backup, and capacity planning.
Experience planning or supporting network migration, installation, cutover, rollback, verification, and acceptance activities.
Proficiency with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and diagramming tools such as Microsoft Visio or equivalent.
Ability to support occasional CONUS, OCONUS, site travel.
U.S. citizenship with active DoD Secret security clearance.
Desired Qualifications:
Experience supporting radar, missile defense, space surveillance, command-and-control, sensor, weapon, or other mission-critical systems.
Experience with Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, F5, or comparable enterprise network technologies.
Experience with network automation and configuration management using Python, Ansible, PowerShell, or comparable tools.
Experience with Software-Defined Networking, network virtualization, software-defined wide area networking, or infrastructure-as-code practices.
Experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, container networking interfaces, service meshes, ingress controllers, and network policies.
Experience with classified networks, cross-domain interfaces, disconnected or degraded environments, and highly regulated Government systems.
Familiarity with Modular Open Systems Approach principles, open architectures, and Government-owned interface definitions.
Familiarity with Risk Management Framework activities, NIST SP 800-53 controls, Security Technical Implementation Guides, Zero Trust principles, and cybersecurity assessment evidence.
Experience with Digital Systems Integration Laboratories, integration test facilities, or lab-to-site transition programs.
Experience with network modeling, simulation, performance analysis, or digital engineering tools.
Relevant certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, JNCIP, JNCIE, Network+, CISSP, or equivalent.
Ability to coordinate technical work across systems, software, cybersecurity, hardware, test, installation, and operations teams.
Ability to translate system and mission requirements into network designs and testable technical requirements.
Experience configuring, integrating, and troubleshooting network devices in operational environments.
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About Vertex Inc
Vertex Inc is a leading provider of tax technology and services, enabling companies of all sizes to realize the full strategic potential of the tax function by automating and integrating tax processes, while leveraging advanced and predictive analytics of tax data. Vertex provides cloud-based and on-premise solutions that can be tailored to specific industries for every major line of tax, including income, sales and consumer use, value added and payroll. Vertex also offers solutions for tax data management, compliance and reporting, tax research, and planning and analysis. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.
