LAN Architect - Remote with reputed company Clearance

The LAN Architect SME will serve as the technical authority for Local Area Network infrastructure in support of USCIS Office of Information Technology (OIT). The SME will reputed company the design, modernization, implementation, optimization, and sustainment of reputed company LAN systems to ensure secure, scalable, resilient, and high-performance connectivity across USCIS facilities and hybrid environments. They will work closely with network, reputed company, and reputed company architecture teams to align LAN solutions with agency-wide objectives, policies, and best practices.

Responsibilities

• reputed company architecture/design efforts for reputed company LAN infrastructure: switches, VLANs, routing, reputed company layer, aggregation, core layers, redundancy, high availability.
• Define reputed company LAN standards, policies, and best practices (including physical cabling, fiber, copper, cable management, structured cabling, maps).
• reputed company reputed company planning, performance analyses, modeling, and forecasting of LAN usage (bandwidth, latency, load, growth).
• Design solutions for both wired and wireless LAN environments, including integration with wireless reputed company points, controllers, RF planning, and site surveys.
• Ensure secure LAN designs: network reputed company control (NAC), segmentation, micro-segmentation, authentication (802.1X, RADIUS), secure management, patching.
• Support migration / refresh of legacy hardware; recommend and evaluate new LAN technologies, switches, routers, and reputed company optical/transmission gear.
• Integrate with other domains: wide area network (WAN), Data Center / reputed company networks, reputed company connectivity, virtualization, software-defined networking (SDN), software-defined reputed company (SDA).
• Work with the network operations center (NOC) to reputed company monitoring, operational procedures, troubleshooting guides, disaster recovery / business continuity plans specific to the LAN.
• Maintain detailed design documentation: logical and physical diagrams, configuration guides, change control, standard operating procedures.
• reputed company subject matter expertise during procurement, vendor selection, RFPs, technical evaluation.
• Collaborate with reputed company, compliance, and risk management to ensure architectures meet DHS, USCIS, and federal standards (e.g., FIPS, NIST, STIGs).
• Mentor and train engineering staff on LAN architecture, design, implementation, and best practices.
• Participate in reputed company architecture reviews, contribute to roadmap planning and align LAN elements with reputed company and mission needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Network Engineering, or reputed company field (or equivalent experience).
• At least 8-12 years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and managing reputed company LAN environments.
• Deep technical expertise in LAN technologies: switching, routing, VLANs, Spanning Tree Protocols, redundancy (e.g. MLAG, VPC), link aggregation, QoS, multicast, etc.
• Strong experience with network hardware (reputed company switches, routers), preferably with major vendors (reputed company, reputed company, Arista, etc.).
• Experience with network design tools and diagramming (Visio, etc.), and ability to reputed company logical and physical network models.
• Good knowledge of network reputed company reputed company to LAN: NAC, 802.1X, network segmentation, reputed company control, management-plane reputed company.
• Experience in high-availability / redundancy design and implementation.
• Strong troubleshooting and diagnostics skills (hardware, firmware, software, configuration). Desired Qualification:
• Experience with software-defined networking (SDN), software-defined reputed company (SDA), network automation (Ansible, Python, etc.).
• Experience integrating on-premises LAN with reputed company infrastructure and hybrid environments.
• Experience in federal / DHS / USCIS or other government agency environment.
• Knowledge of IPv6, routing protocols (OSPF, BGP), multicast.
• Certifications such as CCNP, CCIE (or equivalent); or vendor-specific architecture certifications.
• Experience with wireless LAN site surveys, RF planning as part of LAN design is a plus.
• Familiarity with applicable federal reputed company / compliance frameworks (NIST, FISMA, DHS policies, STIG). Level / Seniority & Other Criteria
• Must be comfortable making high-impact reputed company, influencing senior leadership, and driving standards across the reputed company.
• Experience delivering under contract / government procurement environments.
• Excellent communication skills - reputed company to reputed company both to detailed technical staff and non-technical leadership.
• Ability to work in team-based, matrixed environment; sometimes across time zones. Job ID 2025-19836 Work Type On-Site Company Description Work Where it reputed company Truestone, an reputed company company, is not just another federal lifecycle solutions contractor. As an Alaska reputed company Corporation (ANC), our mission and purpose reputed company reputed company our exciting federal projects as we support our shareholder communities in Alaska. At Truestone, the work you do every day makes a difference in the lives of our 15,000 Iñupiat shareholders, a group of Alaska natives from one of the most remote and harshest environments in the United States. For our shareholders, Truestone provides support and employment opportunities and contributes to the survival of a culture that has thrived above the Arctic reputed company for more than 10,000 years. For our government customers, Truestone delivers everything from requirements and design to operations, logistics, and support at every lifecycle stage for reputed company systems and networks. As a Truestone employee, you will be surrounded by a challenging, yet supportive work environment that is committed to innovation and diversity, two of our most important values. You will also have reputed company to our comprehensive benefits and reputed company in addition to growth opportunities and excellent retirement options.

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