Network Architect

07th April, 2025

Role: Network Architect.
Location: FBI HQ - Washington, D.C.

Job Description:
Serve as an IPV6 Visionary and possess the skills necessary to lead the FBI Enterprise with developing a clear and well-defined road map to lead the agency from IPV4 to IPV6.

Required Skills:

• Lead migration from IPv4 to IPv6, perform root cause analysis, and ensure corrective actions are taken.

• Strong leadership skills and demonstrated ability to achieve results through people, teams, vendors, and across an organization.

• Excellent interpersonal communication skills, both written and verbal.

• Ability to build relationships and collaborate with a diverse group of people.

• Ability to review network designs, configurations, and real-time traffic patterns to assess network capacity, detect suboptimal network state, and identify potential points of failure.

Desired Skills:

• Strong knowledge and extensive hands-on experience with Cisco products, including ISE.

• Solid understanding of large-scale network security deployments and Defense in Depth strategies implemented using multiple vendors (Cisco, F5).

• Hands-on experience with network automation frameworks and ability to lead engineers through the standardization/simplification benefits of Infrastructure as Code methodologies.

General Description:

• Play a crucial role in creating, maintaining, and modifying the FBI's IPv4 and IPV6 network's hardware, software, and virtualized components.

• Have in-depth knowledge about the network's technological requirements and migration with Internet Protocol-based networks.

• Design and implement security countermeasures when network vulnerabilities arise.

• Play a prominent role in the design, layout, and ultimate installation of routers, switches, modems, and any other hardware and software upgrades that are essential for IPv4 migrations to IPV6 communication networks.

• Maintain, diagnose, and manage network systems being migrated and rectify any occurring issues.

• Responsible for the solution design and business development and offer technical guidance on networking solutions, production plans, testing, and roadmaps.

• Lead the design process, work alongside existing network engineers, and monitor traffic to ensure traffic flows.

• Work in coordination with the software and hardware teams to get the necessary network components and equipment in place.

• Work in collaboration with the network engineers, network administrators, and other professionals in the IPV4 and IPv6 realms to ensure maximum transition, network throughput, setup, and configuration.

• Examine and evaluate the current network performance and suggest changes as needed.

Clearance:
Active Top Secret and will require a CI polygraph after 6 months.