TS/SCI Network Architect - Tactical Edge Connectivity

LMI Consulting, LLC; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 165,000 - 183,000; Full time

Job summary

LMI Consulting, LLC in Tampa, FL seeks a Network Architect to design and integrate resilient network architectures for autonomous operations across Joint, allied, and partner systems. The role focuses on contested and low-bandwidth environments, coordinating interfaces from enterprise networks to tactical edge platforms.

The ideal candidate will hands-on design, test, troubleshoot, document, and operationalize complex communications solutions, maintain security posture, and support field

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in network engineering, computer science, information technology, electrical engineering, cybersecurity, or related field, or equivalent education and experience.
• Four or more years of experience in network engineering, tactical communications, systems integration, enterprise networking, or related discipline.
• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• Hands-on knowledge of TCP/IP, routing, switching, VPNs, firewalls, wireless networking, network services, and performance troubleshooting.
• Experience integrating networks across enterprise, cloud, edge, tactical, or coalition environments.
• Experience developing network diagrams, configurations, test plans, interface documentation, and technical implementation guidance.
• Understanding of cybersecurity, encryption, access control, monitoring, vulnerability management, and DoD network authorization requirements.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex multi-vendor and multi-transport connectivity issues.
• Strong written communication, documentation, briefing, and customer engagement skills.
• DoD 8140 baseline certification appropriate to assigned duties, or ability to obtain it within required timeframe.

Responsibilities

• Design and integrate network architectures for autonomous platforms, tactical edge compute, sensors, mission applications, command and control, and data exchange.
• Assess and integrate terrestrial, satellite, radio frequency, wireless, mesh, cellular, tactical data link, and other transport options.
• Engineer resilient connectivity for contested, disconnected, intermittent, and low-bandwidth conditions, including failover, redundancy, prioritization, and degraded-mode operations.
• Coordinate network interfaces with Joint, Service, coalition, partner, commercial, and program-specific environments.
• Develop network diagrams, interface control documentation, addressing plans, routing designs, configuration baselines, bills of material, and test procedures.
• Plan and execute laboratory, range, exercise, and field integration testing; troubleshoot connectivity, performance, interoperability, and configuration issues.
• Coordinate network security, identity, encryption, firewall, VPN, cross-domain, access, and monitoring requirements with cybersecurity and authorization stakeholders.
• Support spectrum coordination, network access requests, account provisioning, site surveys, equipment staging, and deployment preparation.
• Monitor network performance and develop recommendations to improve availability, latency, throughput, observability, and operational resilience.
• Translate operator mission needs into network requirements and explain technical constraints and tradeoffs to non-network stakeholders.
• Coordinate with platform integrators, vendors, government engineers, operational units, and communications organizations.
• Prepare technical status, risk, readiness, and decision briefings for leadership.

Skills

TCP/IP

Routing

Switching

VPNs

Firewalls

Wireless Networking

Performance Troubleshooting

Network Diagrams

Multi-Transport Connectivity

Education

Bachelor's degree in network engineering / related field

DoD 8140 baseline certification

Active TS/SCI clearance

Four+ years network engineering experience

Job description

LMI Consulting, LLC in Tampa, FL seeks a Network Architect to design and integrate resilient network architectures for autonomous operations across Joint, allied, and partner systems. The role focuses on contested and low-bandwidth environments, coordinating interfaces from enterprise networks to tactical edge platforms.

The ideal candidate will hands-on design, test, troubleshoot, document, and operationalize complex communications solutions, maintain security posture, and support field