Network Architect - Clearance Required
LMI Consulting · Tampa, FL, US
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## Network Architect (Clearance Required) ### Overview LMI is seeking a **Network Architect** to support a Department of War mission partner in designing and integrating **resilient network architectures** that enable **autonomous operations** across **Joint, allied, partner, and commercial systems**. You will focus on connectivity in **contested, disconnected, intermittent, and low-bandwidth** environments, coordinating technical interfaces from **enterprise networks** to **tactical edge platforms**. This role requires **on-site support in Tampa, Florida** and an **active Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance**. **Periodic travel** to supported commands, operational units, exercises, test events, and industry locations is required. ### Responsibilities - Design and integrate network architectures supporting **autonomous platforms**, **tactical edge compute**, **sensors**, **mission applications**, **command and control**, and **data exchange** - Assess and integrate transport options including **terrestrial, satellite, RF, wireless, mesh, cellular, tactical data links**, and others - Engineer resilient connectivity for **contested/disconnected/intermittent/low-bandwidth** conditions (e.g., **failover, redundancy, prioritization, degraded-mode operations**) - Coordinate network interfaces across **Joint, Service, coalition, partner, commercial**, and program-specific environments - Produce and maintain **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 and access requirements (e.g., **identity, encryption, firewalls, VPN, cross-domain, access, monitoring**) with cybersecurity/authorization stakeholders - Support **spectrum coordination**, **network access requests**, **account provisioning**, **site surveys**, **equipment staging**, and **deployment preparation** - Monitor network performance and recommend improvements to **availability, latency, throughput, observability, and operational resilience** - Translate operator mission needs into network requirements; 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 ### Qualifications **Required** - Bachelor’s degree in network engineering, computer science, information technology, electrical engineering, cybersecurity, or related field (or equivalent experience) - **4+ 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, and performance troubleshooting - Experience integrating networks across **enterprise, cloud, edge, tactical, or coalition** environments - Experience developing **network diagrams, configurations, test plans, interface documentation**, and implementation guidance - Understanding of cybersecurity, encryption, access control, monitoring, vulnerability management, and **DoD network auth
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