Role Overview:
- Kratos is seeking a highly accomplished Senior Network Architect and Technical Leader with 15+ years of progressive experience designing, implementing, modernizing, and supporting large-scale, remote manned/unmanned, mission-critical network environments.
- The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise across WAN/LAN routing and switching, data center technologies, virtualization, and network security, with a proven ability to lead teams, modernize customer environments, and support complex government customers.
- This role involves high-impact, hands-on troubleshooting and maintenance, maintaining technical documentation, modernization initiatives, proactive consulting, and coaching of engineering staff.
- Experience supporting DoW and/or Intelligence Community customers is highly preferred.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work with Program and Customer Leadership to ensure all Network Engineering requirements are understood and defined.
- Align solutions and strengthen long-term technical relationships.
- Architect, design, implement, and support scalable and secure WAN/LAN network solutions for DoW environments.
- Lead comprehensive network modernization efforts, including device refreshes, routing changes, software deployments, and security hardening initiatives.
- Prototype network designs and issues using modeling environments (e.g., Cisco Modeling Labs) to validate and optimize architectures.
- Serve as a technical lead guiding teams of engineers through design, configuration, and stabilization of complex customer networks.
- Provide proactive consulting support, issue troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and performance optimization.
- Coach and mentor junior engineers, contribute to knowledge transfer, and support team development.
- Ensure secure system configuration, risk mitigation, and compliance with DoW and enterprise security standards.
- Participate in CDRL and technical artifact generation based on internal and customer prescribed schedules.
- Attend and support highly technical engineering team meetings.
- Develop and deliver effective customer presentations, demonstrating an ability to communicate comfortably at a system level.
- Travel as necessary to attend customer meetings and establish/maintain remote system locations.
Required Qualifications:
- U.S. citizenship with active DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance.
- BS in STEM degree field.
- Cisco CCNP (Required) or CCIE (Preferred) certification.
- DoDM 8140.03 Certification (Security +, CASP+, CEH, CISM, CISSP, or equivalent).
- Supporting programs through SRR, PDR, CDR, or equivalent design reviews.
- 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in network architecture, engineering, and technical leadership.
- Extensive experience supporting large-scale enterprise or Department of War networks, ideally including the U.S. Air Force.
- Hands-on experience with network security technologies including ASA firewalls, hardening, and access control systems.
- Expertise with routing and switching technologies including OSPF, BGP, multicast protocols, LAN switching, and advanced WAN solutions (DMVPN, SD-WAN, SD-Routing).
- Strong data center experience across SAN, storage networking, High Availability (HA), power solutions, and virtualization (VMware, Linux).
- Demonstrated ability to lead engineering teams through complex network deployments and upgrades.
- Strong troubleshooting capabilities and ability to simulate, replicate, and resolve complex issues.
- Ability to articulate technical concepts orally and in written forms for internal team, external customer, and users.
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- 15+ years of experience in network architecture, engineering, and technical leadership.
- Experience with network modeling and automation principles (e.g. CML).
- Experience supporting high availability and multi-site environments.
- Other advanced certifications and specialization tracks beyond CCIE.
- Experience working alongside or in a network architect role.
- Experience with cloud networking platforms and integrations.
