**Introduction** A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground-breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience. **Your role and responsibilities** The project you will be working on will be in support of maintaining current on-premises networking while supporting cloud migration. Work will be performed onsite in a SCIF in Washington, DC Additional tasks include: * Responsible for troubleshooting network incidents, providing root cause analysis and documenting information in tickets and knowledge repositories * Help to establish cloud-based network architecture based upon business requirements, for cloud migrations, while maintaining architectural best practices * Analyze and adapt existing network infrastructure and network implementations to function in a cloud-based environment using cost-effective best practices * Provide expert-level guidance to supervisory staff on networking considerations for cloud migrations and new infrastructure * Provide all necessary documentation to detail networking and cloud infrastructure designs * Develop, implement, and manage network engineering processes including configuration management and design standards to ensure compliance, relevancy, and sustainability * Work within established configuration and change management policies to ensure awareness, approval and success of changes made to the network infrastructure * Clearance: Must currently hold and have the ability to maintain Top Secret and be SCI eligible **Required technical and professional expertise** * 10+ years of experience managing enterprise network infrastructures * Experience with Cisco Networking, Cisco Firewalls, Cisco Routers, LAN, WAN, and nodes * Experience with General Dynamics TACLANE * Experience with WireShark, Solarwinds and other analysis tools * Expert-level experience in networking principles and protocols such as IP subnetting, routing, security and encryption, DNS, etc. * Extensive experience in designing, deploying, managing and monitoring Firewalls such as Cisco ASA, VMware NSX Edge Gateway & distributed firewall, or Palo Alto in an enterprise environment * Experience in Cloud Networking and Hybrid Networking technologies such as Site to Site VPN, AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute * Experience architecting network infrastructure that adheres to compliance frameworks such as NIST, CCPA, GDPR, or PCI DSS **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Experience with AWS GovCloud * Experience with FedRAMP policies, protocols and procedures * Industry certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, CISSP, or CISA * AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or Professional certifications IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.