Network Orchestration Architect

Network Orchestration Architect

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field
• 12+ years demonstrated Network Orchestration experience with a proven track record
• Strong communication, leadership and relationship-building skills to operate a solution-minded and efficient team while driving consensus across stakeholders
• Fluency with network products, services, protocols, and standards and experience transforming innovative network technologies into deployed capabilities, while meeting government security requirements
• Detailed knowledge of routing protocols and use of Netconf/YANG to manage MPLS networks
• Experience developing network architectures and network orchestration for a highly automated software centric system
• Be a creative and strategic thinker who demonstrates decisiveness and the ability to analyze a situation, generate and evaluate solutions, and provide constructive feedback to team members and management
• Experience in the design and creation of detailed network and data flow diagrams for presentation to various levels from experienced technical contributors to executive teams

Responsibilities

• Architect and design a robust and fault-tolerant network orchestration capability to support rapidly changing topologies, provide network routing control, and support dynamic bandwidth management while conforming to customer network specifications
• Be responsible for ensuring resolution of critical technical network orchestration architecture issues across program/project and product lifecycles
• Build and manage network models and simulators that integrate operational products to inform network orchestration design
• Work independently to design and deploy scalable network devices, including automated route distribution methods using frameworks such as Netconf, Yang, and Ansible
• Contribute to the documentation necessary for the maintenance and operations of Network Infrastructure systems to support Local Area Networks and Government furnished Wide Area Networks, across multiple sites
• Guide multi-disciplinary technical development teams ranging in size from 5 to 20 engineers
• Support proposals/new business as the lead network architecture technical contributor
• Lead, communicate, and coordinate critical technical events, accomplishments, and issues to facilitate appropriate subject matter expert engagement
• Play a key role in providing technical assistance to Support-team related to network traffic congestion, latency issues, link outages, and System performance problems
• Ensure system architectures are following technical standards, effective engineering processes, mission assurance, design assurance, quality, audit, and internal integration, test and verification activities

Preferred Qualifications

• Network Orchestration engineer certifications like Cisco’s CCNA, CCNP Enterprise, CISSP, and CCIE, along with CompTIA Network+, and cloud-specific certifications like AWS Certified Advanced Networking and Microsoft Azure Network Engineer Associate, are highly valuable
• Other Relevant Certifications that would be advantageous such as Juniper JNCIP, and JNCIA
• Government or commercial network and mission operations experience including procedure development, training, transition planning, installation, and deployment
• Experience developing CONOPS / OPSCON for managing critical real-time satellite-based mesh networks
• Hands on experience necessary to manage and maintaining Juniper and/or Cisco routers, switches, firewalls, and other vendors networking technologies
• Ability to provide real-time troubleshooting and problem resolution for escalated issues on a limited basis as required
• Competency in briefing engineering efforts to both internal and government customers
• Agile development experience
• Cost estimation experience