Senior Network Architect — Enterprise WAN & Security

General Dynamics Information Technology; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 183,000 - 247,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology is seeking an experienced Network Architect to design, secure, modernize, and support highly available enterprise network services for the National Nuclear Security Administration. This senior role leads network engineering and operations teams across LAN, WAN, datacenter, remote-access, and boundary-protection environments.

The position requires 9+ years of related experience, a U.S.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and supporting large, geographically dispersed enterprise networks.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain enterprise LAN, WAN, datacenter, VPN, firewall, load-balancing, and network access-control architectures.
• Develop network standards, reference architectures, implementation plans, and technology roadmaps.
• Provide technical leadership for routing, switching, segmentation, secure remote access, and boundary protection.
• Lead network modernization, equipment refresh, technology migration, and new-site deployment efforts.
• Evaluate proposed network changes for security, availability, performance, capacity, and operational impact.
• Troubleshoot complex network incidents and perform root-cause analysis for recurring issues and outages.
• Support vulnerability remediation, continuous monitoring, secure configuration, and Risk Management Framework activities.
• Develop network diagrams, engineering documentation, operating procedures, and technical briefings.
• Mentor network engineers and provide directions to geographically distributed technical teams.
• Collaborate with government stakeholders, cybersecurity teams, system administrators, vendors, and program leadership.

Skills

Enterprise network design

Microsoft Office

Network architecture

WAN

LAN

Routing & switching

Security

Cisco routers/switches

Firewall technologies

VPN/remote access

Network monitoring tools

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS/cybersecurity

12+ years network architecture/engineering experience

8+ years in enterprise LAN/WAN/datacenter security

5+ years senior/lead/SME role

Tools

Cisco routers & switches

Palo Alto/Cisco ASA firewalls

IPsec/VPN technologies

Cisco ISE/TACACS+/RADIUS/802.1X

Job description

General Dynamics Information Technology is seeking an experienced Network Architect to design, secure, modernize, and support highly available enterprise network services for the National Nuclear Security Administration. This senior role leads network engineering and operations teams across LAN, WAN, datacenter, remote-access, and boundary-protection environments.

The position requires 9+ years of related experience, a U.S.