Enterprise Network Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee technical discovery and assessments of current states across Voyager facilities, newly acquired companies, and other environments being integrated into the enterprise.

• Identify and document network topology, circuits, routing, switching, wireless, firewall boundaries, VPN connectivity, VLANs, IP addressing, segmentation, DNS/DHCP, network services, monitoring, and dependencies.

• Detect undocumented infrastructure, architectural inconsistencies, single points of failure, capacity limitations, security issues, technical debt, and lifecycle risks.

• Create current-state and target-state network diagrams, gap assessments, remediation plans, and migration strategies.

• Collaborate with site staff, engineering teams, cybersecurity, IT operations, vendors, carriers, and stakeholders.

• Design secure, scalable, and highly available architectures for LAN, WAN, wireless, SD-WAN, internet edge, VPN, remote access, routing, switching, segmentation, and network services.

• Develop and uphold enterprise network standards, reference architectures, engineering patterns, configuration standards, and technology roadmaps.

• Produce high-level and low-level designs, logical and physical diagrams, implementation plans, bills of materials, addressing strategies, VLAN/VRF designs, routing designs, and resiliency models.

• Assess networking technologies and provide recommendations based on capability, security, scalability, interoperability, lifecycle, and cost.

• Offer hands-on engineering leadership during network builds, site activations, office expansions, technology refreshes, migrations, and acquisition integrations.

• Design and facilitate the transition of legacy or independently operated networks into Voyager's enterprise architecture.

• Formulate migration strategies that include rollback, validation, and acceptance criteria.

• Coordinate circuit provisioning, carrier connectivity, hardware deployment, configuration, cutover, and testing.

• Validate routing, redundancy, failover, segmentation, security policy enforcement, application connectivity, and network performance.

• Assist in the development of templates, automation, and repeatable deployment methods.

• Integrate Zero Trust principles, network segmentation, access control, logging, secure remote access, and least-privilege concepts.

• Create solutions that comply with CMMC, CUI, ITAR/EAR, government, and other regulatory and contractual requirements.

• Support firewalls, VPN, network access control, security zones, enclave boundaries, segmentation, and network security monitoring.

• Maintain architecture diagrams, design records, configuration standards, change documentation, and technical evidence for audits and compliance.

• Incorporate high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, and operational resilience into designs.

• Act as a senior escalation point for complex network engineering and architecture challenges.

• Lead or assist in root-cause analysis for major network incidents and implement architectural or engineering enhancements.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to Network Engineers and infrastructure personnel without the need for direct personnel management.

• Collaborate with Network Engineering, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Cloud, IT Operations, application teams, and business stakeholders.

• Engage with vendors, managed service providers, telecommunications carriers, and technology partners.

• Ensure accurate as-built documentation and facilitate the transition of completed projects into operational support.

• Report to the Director of Networking.

⛳️ Requirements

• Approximately 8+ years of progressive experience in enterprise networking, with significant experience in senior network engineering and/or architecture roles.

• Expert-level understanding of enterprise routing and switching, LAN/WAN, wireless, firewalls, VPN, internet connectivity, DNS/DHCP, IP addressing, network segmentation, and network monitoring.

• Strong knowledge of routing protocols and enterprise network design principles, including technologies such as BGP and OSPF, redundancy, high availability, QoS, and resilient network design.

• Proven experience in designing and implementing networks across multiple geographically distributed locations.

• Experience in network discovery, current-state assessments, architecture development, modernization, migration, and implementation.

• Ability to guide a project from business or technical requirements through to architecture, detailed engineering, implementation, testing, and operational handoff.

• Strong troubleshooting skills with the capacity to diagnose complex issues across multiple network and infrastructure domains.

• Capability to develop professional network diagrams, design documentation, implementation plans, standards, and technical recommendations.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to effectively engage with technical teams, leadership, vendors, and business stakeholders.

• U.S. Person status as required for applicable ITAR/export-controlled work.

• This position will require an active DOD clearance upon hire.

• Applicants must be eligible for any required export authorizations from the U.S. Department of State or the U.S. Department of Commerce.

• Preferred: Experience in aerospace, defense, government, advanced manufacturing, or other highly regulated environments.

• Preferred: Experience integrating networks related to acquisitions, mergers, new facilities, or previously independent business units.

• Preferred: Hands-on experience with enterprise technologies from vendors such as Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Aruba, Juniper, Meraki, Zscaler, or similar platforms.

• Preferred: Experience with SD-WAN, network access control, enterprise IPAM/DNS/DHCP, cloud networking, and hybrid connectivity.

• Preferred: Experience with Microsoft Azure/Azure Government, GCC High, or other secure cloud and collaboration environments.

• Preferred: Experience with network automation, configuration templates, APIs, scripting, infrastructure-as-code, or automated documentation.

• Preferred: Relevant industry certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, JNCIP, PCNSE, Security+, CISSP, or similar certifications.

• Preferred: Active U.S. Government security clearance.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible Time Off (FTO), allowing employees to take the necessary time to recharge and maintain a healthy work-life balance.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their families, with a significant portion of premiums covered by the company and many benefits offered at 100% for employees.

• Flexible, affordable gym memberships with over 12,700 options nationwide, including 24 Hour Fitness, EoS Fitness, Crunch Fitness, Anytime Fitness, Blink Fitness, Chuze Fitness, and more! No long-term contracts and FREE on-demand workout videos available before enrollment.

• 401(k) retirement plan featuring a 50% company match on contributions up to 8%, promoting long-term financial security.

• Company wellness programs that foster both physical and mental well-being.

• Additional voluntary benefits and employee support resources.

• An opportunity to collaborate with a highly talented team in an innovative, mission-driven environment.