DoD Network Architect – Cybersecurity Expert

World Wide Technology; Mountain Home (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

World Wide Technology is seeking a Network Architect Cybersecurity with 8+ years of enterprise networking and DoD experience to design secure, high-speed network fabrics and integrate telemetry pipelines for real-time threat detection.

You will implement zero-trust boundary controls, manage NGFWs, and collaborate with SOC teams to align with RMF/ATO requirements across DoD environments.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
• 10+ years of DoD/IC network engineering and security experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or 12+ years of relevant work experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain enterprise routing, switching, and transport backbones across multi-site DoD enclaves.
• Architect and manage NGFW and zero-trust boundary controls.
• Ingest and correlate logs with Elastic/Splunk for real-time threat detection.
• Ensure DISA STIGs, NIST 800-53 controls, and RMF/ATO compliance.
• Develop automation to streamline configuration, telemetry routing, and lifecycle updates.
• Support incident response and network forensics with PCAP analysis and tracing.

Skills

Security Clearance

DoD Experience

Network Engineering

BGP/OSPF/VXLAN

NGFW Administration

Zero Trust

Network Visibility

Automation with Python

REST APIs

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field

12+ years experience in lieu of degree

Tools

Gigamon

Ixia

Zeek/Suricata

Elastic Stack/Splunk

Palo Alto / Fortinet / Cisco Firepower

Job description

World Wide Technology is seeking a Network Architect Cybersecurity with 8+ years of enterprise networking and DoD experience to design secure, high-speed network fabrics and integrate telemetry pipelines for real-time threat detection.

You will implement zero-trust boundary controls, manage NGFWs, and collaborate with SOC teams to align with RMF/ATO requirements across DoD environments.