Network Engineer IV

Qualifications:

• US Citizenship is REQUIRED
• Bachelor's degree in applicable discipline or the equivalent is required.
• 10+ years of technical area experience in a complex enterprise IT environment, for large-scale systems across
• multiple hardware and software platforms.
• At least 7+ years of experience in network and security infrastructure technology engineering (e.g., routing and
• switching, firewall).
• DevOps / Automation: TerraForm, Ansible, Python
• In-depth knowledge of the following:
• Network Routing protocols: BGP, OSPF, EIGRP
• Network WAN technologies MPLS over mGRE, DMVPN, IPSEC VPN, WAN MACSec
• Juniper and Palo Alto Firewalls
• Algosec or similar firewall policy tool
• Cisco Nexus Hardware (ACI & Nexus Mode), Cisco Catalyst Catalyst 8500, 9k Series, ASR and ISR series
• Expert at network fundamentals including the OSI model, TCP/IP, IPv4 and IPv6
• Must be comfortable with Linux commands/file system
• Strong technical knowledge of IT enterprise systems and tools
• Experience with IDS/IPS, network access control, load balancers preferred
• Experience learning, sharing, and implementing best practices with the ability to determine operational processes
• Progressive leadership experience with responsibility for leading technical staff and matrixed teams within large mission-critical systems with complex network requirements, or the equivalent required
• Experience implementing network and security infrastructure for large critical enterprise environment that is a target of Nation-State attackers.
• Deep understanding of network and security infrastructure capabilities and gaps.
• Understanding of NIST and FedRAMP security requirements

Responsibilities:

• As an architect you will need to align technical strategic direction and roadmaps for network products with the FRS business and security strategies.
• Work with peers and leaders in the Network Product Line to influence their roadmaps including ensuring that they are enabling Infrastructure Architecture and Security strategic priorities.
• As an architect you will be communicating and presenting at all levels of the organization including non-technical audiences.
• Participate in planning, design, and execution of critical and strategic efforts with a focus on recognizing, providing resolutions, and escalating issues before they have impact.
• Work closely with architects around Federal Reserve System and business / product owners to understand and advance NIT strategic directions from a network and security infrastructure strategy perspective.
• This position will require an individual who is a self-starter and can work well in multiple roles including leading a team, participating as a member of a team, and also alone.
• Develop and maintain strategic network and security infrastructure architectural roadmaps with a 2-5 year outlook
• taking into account business direction, customer experience, and technology trends
• Develop and maintain network and security infrastructure capability map
• Be an active participant providing tactful advice and guidance during all Architecture Review Board activities
• Partner with internal customers to provide guidance on architectural patterns. Recommends and implements
• changes to business information and technical architecture requirements.
• Partners with our clients and other resources in detecting critical architectural and infrastructure gaps or
• deficiencies in the IT environment. Recommends solutions for improvement.
• Provide input and directional guidance for network and security infrastructure automation
• Work with peer architects to create integration patterns that inform and set standards for various traffic patterns in
• a hybrid enterprise environment
• Oversees and directs major, critical, and emerging technology studies. Assess merit and impact; Work with NPL
• Architects on architecture standards and influence designs
• Understand inherited risks related to network and security infrastructure environment that encompasses
• colocation data centers, multiple CSPs, SaaS and on-premise sites that are interdependent on each other
• Support Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) efforts to ensure adherence to CI/CD
• principles
• Maintain working relationships with peers and business partners and communicate with key executives and
• stakeholders on successes, opportunities, and challenges
• Initiates and oversees project development, system/design/testing, requirement direction and investigation of
• alternatives for implementation of feasible new technology.
• Provides key consultative leadership on System projects focused on planning, development and implementation
• of strategic technological directives.
• Provides strategic foresight and long-term development planning for future technology impacting the Federal
• Reserve System.