Senior Network Architect

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Peraton is a next‑generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace.

The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face.
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Engineering, integration, and cybersecurity support to design, build, and test enhanced services for the Department of Navy's IT architecture. Offers a wide range of roles, from cybersecurity experts to engineers specializing in systems, networks, software, and data center services.

Peraton is seeking a Network Architect onsite in Annapolis Junction, MD to provide design and upgrade efforts encompassing the network infrastructure across multiple large‑scale enterprise Information Technology (IT) programs. Be part of our exciting team supporting a robust, world‑wide communications network, providing office automation packages; document and information management tools; and collaboration, voice, and video tools in a secure, flexible, distributed architecture supporting a classified DoD IT system.

• Review and analyze the existing network architecture and provide designs for the current and future modern WAN/MAN/LAN technologies
• Recommend best practices such as SDN, Intent‑based networking, and network segmentation protocols, etc., in order to improve the existing architecture and meet new networking requirements and standards
• Design telecommunications circuit specifications
• Identify the need for routers, switches, and encryption devices to support enterprise services
• Deliver service catalog items for automatically provisioning network configurations to deliver Infrastructure‑as‑Code
• Develop and maintain network architecture specifications and artifacts
• Designs and plans network communications systems. Provides specifications and detailed schematics for network architecture.
• Conduct cost/benefit analysis and provide specific detailed information for hardware and software selection, implementation techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements. Conduct testing of network design.
• Responsible for monitoring network hardware operations to ensure properly set configuration options.
• Plan implementation of enhancements and upgrades to the network.
• Advise network users of hardware requirements, configurations, and limitations.
• Maintain technical expertise in all areas of network and computer hardware and software interconnection and interfacing, such as routers, multiplexers, firewalls, hubs, bridges, gateways, etc.
• Evaluate and report on new communications technologies to enhance capabilities of the network.

• Requires a minimum of 12 years of experience
• Requires a Bachelors degree
• Top Secret with SCI eligibility is required
• Minimum 5 years of Cisco experience; proven expertise with Cisco network hardware including: routers, switches, firewalls, unified communications equipment
• Proven experience in VMware environments
• Proven experience in virtual and physical Internet Protocol and Fiber Channel networks and routing protocols
• Proven experience designing, optimizing, and troubleshooting LAN, WAN and low bandwidth networks protected by network encryptors
• Experience with Risk Management Framework (RMF), DODAF 2.0 standards, and Change Management Processes to ensure smooth network updates and configurations.
• Experience designing VMware NSX environments utilizing Software Defined Networking (SDN) principles.
• Experience utilizing network management solutions based on Netflow and Simple Network…