Senior Network Engineer

ThoughtStorm; Hyattsville (MD); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

ThoughtStorm in Hyattsville, MD is seeking a Network Architect responsible for the design, governance, and continuous evolution of the enterprise network across LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, wireless, firewall, load-balancing, and network security domains.

The Network Architect will act as the technical authority for architecture decisions, develop and refine high-level/low-level designs, define standards, support capacity planning, and review changes to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture

Job description

Client is looking for a Network Engineer responsible for the design, governance, and continuous evolution of Client's enterprise network architecture across LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, wireless, firewall, load-balancing, and network security domains.

The Network Architect shall:

• Serve as the technical authority for all network architecture decisions, including routing, segmentation, firewall architecture, load-balancing architecture, security integration, traffic engineering, and resiliency design.
• Develop, maintain, and continuously refine network architecture artifacts, including:
• High-level and low-level network designs (HLDs/LLDs)
• Routing architectures (BGP, OSPF, SD-WAN) and failover design
• Firewall security zone models and policy framework architecture
• Load-balancing and application delivery architecture designs
• Define and enforce network standards and configuration baselines to ensure consistency, security, availability, performance, and operational supportability across all environments.
• Establish architecture standards for firewalls, VPNs, ADC/load-balancing platforms, network segmentation, high-availability services, and cloud connectivity.
• Support lifecycle and capacity planning, including:
• Hardware/software EOL/EOS tracking
• Throughput forecasting and scalability planning
• Firewall and load-balancer lifecycle planning
• Coordinate network architecture alignment with NFE Solution implementation and enterprise infrastructure environments.
• Review and approve firewall segmentation strategies, security zone designs, routing architectures, application traffic flows, and load-balancing configurations to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
• Support CCB activities by reviewing and approving all network-related changes impacting architecture, security, availability, performance, or resiliency.
• Evaluate and incorporate OEM/vendor solutions and industry best practices for routing, switching, wireless infrastructure, firewalls, load balancing, network security, and cloud networking into the enterprise network environment.
• Provide architectural oversight for integration of monitoring, telemetry, observability, and network management platforms to ensure operational visibility and supportability of all network services.