Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CyKor is a fast-growing Technology Solutions Provider to both federal and commercial clients. The Senior Network Architect - Integration Lead will serve as the lead technical architect responsible for integrating various network and cybersecurity capabilities to support a DOD initiative.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary technical integration lead for Coastal Sentinel architecture and engineering activities
- Develop end-to-end architectures integrating enterprise, tactical, wireless, sensor, cybersecurity, and application environments
- Develop and maintain High-Level Designs (HLD), Low-Level Designs (LLD), architecture diagrams, interface definitions, data flows, and integration requirements
- Identify technical dependencies, integration points, interoperability risks, and architectural gaps across the solution
- Translate operational and mission requirements into scalable technical architectures
- Ensure architecture supports future expansion from pilot capabilities into broader USCG operational deployments
- Architect integration of Cisco SD-WAN or comparable software-defined networking technologies with enterprise transport
- Design resilient WAN architectures supporting multiple transport paths and operating environments
- Develop routing, segmentation, QoS, redundancy, failover, and traffic-engineering strategies
- Integrate traditional IP transport with tactical and wireless communications environments
- Evaluate bandwidth, latency, availability, and resiliency requirements for mission-critical data and applications
- Support integration between fixed infrastructure and mobile/tactical network environments
- Architect integration of Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) capabilities with enterprise and tactical DOD networks
- Understand dynamic routing, mesh networking, mobile nodes, degraded communications environments, and disconnected/intermittent/limited-bandwidth operations
- Develop architectures that allow tactical users, vessels, sensors, and mobile platforms to securely exchange data across MANET and enterprise networks
- Evaluate interoperability between MANET, IP transport, SD-WAN, wireless, SATCOM, cellular, and other available transport mechanisms
- Integrate Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) into the overall network architecture
- Design security inspection and enforcement points appropriate to enterprise and tactical network boundaries
- Coordinate firewall, IDS/IPS, network segmentation, encryption, logging, monitoring, and security policy requirements
- Ensure security capabilities maintain visibility into traffic without creating unacceptable latency or mission impact
- Support cybersecurity engineering, RMF, ATO, STIG, and operational security requirements
- Incorporate DoD Zero Trust principles into the Coastal Sentinel architecture
- Design network and application segmentation based on users, devices, applications, data, and mission requirements
- Support integration with identity, authentication, authorization, device posture, and policy-enforcement capabilities
- Apply least-privilege access principles and minimize implicit trust across enterprise and tactical network boundaries
- Develop architecture patterns supporting continuous verification and policy-based access
- Architect network services required to support mission and operational applications
- Define connectivity, security, latency, bandwidth, QoS, and availability requirements for applications
- Coordinate with application owners to understand application dependencies and data flows
- Identify integration issues between legacy applications and modern segmented/Zero Trust environments
- Ensure architecture supports reliable access to mission applications across fixed, mobile, and degraded network environments
- Develop architectures supporting the secure transport of sensor and mission data across tactical and enterprise networks
- Understand data flows from sensors and edge devices through tactical networks, transport infrastructure, security controls, applications, and data repositories
- Define requirements for data prioritization, aggregation, filtering, forwarding, and dissemination
- Address bandwidth-constrained environments and determine where processing or filtering should occur at the tactical edge
- Support integration of sensor feeds with operational applications, command-and-control systems, analytics platforms, and other mission consumers
- Own technical integration across network, cybersecurity, application, sensor, and tactical communications workstreams
- Develop interface and integration requirements between systems
- Lead architecture reviews, engineering working groups, integration planning, and technical design sessions
- Develop integration and test strategies for lab, pilot, and operational environments
- Support troubleshooting of complex cross-domain issues involving network transport, security controls, applications, and sensor data
- Identify root causes across multiple technology domains rather than treating individual systems in isolation
- Support pilot testing, operational demonstrations, acceptance testing, and transition to production
Skills
- 10+ years of progressively responsible network engineering, systems integration, or network architecture experience
- Demonstrated experience serving as a Senior Network Architect, Solution Architect, or Technical Integration Lead
- Strong enterprise routing and switching background
- Hands-on architecture or engineering experience with SD-WAN
- Experience designing or integrating complex data transport architectures
- Experience with IDS/IPS, firewalls, network security, segmentation, and security policy enforcement
- Working knowledge of Zero Trust Architecture and Zero Trust Network Access concepts
- Experience integrating applications and application data flows across segmented networks
- Experience with MANET, tactical networking, mesh networking, or other mobile/disconnected communications environments
- Experience integrating sensor, telemetry, IoT, ISR, or other mission-generated data into network architectures
- Strong understanding of TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, VPNs, QoS, multicast, network segmentation, and resilient routing architectures
- Experience developing HLDs, LLDs, network diagrams, data-flow diagrams, interface documentation, and technical implementation plans
- Ability to lead multidisciplinary engineering teams and communicate complex architectures to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Active Secret clearance
- Previous military/federal C5I/C5ISR engineering experience
- Federal enterprise network or cutter/afloat communications experience
- Cisco SD-WAN architecture and engineering experience
- Cisco ISE / identity-based network access and segmentation experience
- Next-generation firewall and IDS/IPS experience
- Tactical wireless and MANET technologies
- SATCOM, LTE/5G, RF, or other alternate transport experience
- Sensor-to-edge-to-enterprise data architecture experience
- Experience integrating legacy mission systems into modern Zero Trust environments
- Experience supporting federal pilot programs through lab integration, operational demonstration, production deployment, and transition to sustainment
- Familiarity with DoD/DHS Zero Trust guidance, NIST cybersecurity standards, DISA STIGs, RMF, and ATO processes
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