# Network Architect SME

We are seeking a Subject Matter Expert (SME) Network Architect to join our team supporting a large-scale federal modernization program. This role owns enterprise and solution-level network architecture, designing secure, resilient network environments that support mission-critical systems and shared services across both cloud and on-premises boundaries, and driving the standards, target-state direction, and modernization roadmap that keep the network ready to scale. This is a hands-on architecture role. You'll be expected to produce real technical designs and see them through implementation, not just set direction from a distance. This is a hybrid role based out of Washington, DC. Candidates must be U.S. citizens. Key Responsibilities 1. Network Architecture & Design Develop, review, and implement secure, resilient enterprise network architectures supporting mission systems and shared services. Produce and assess physical/logical diagrams, routing/segmentation, interfaces, connectivity, capacity, availability, and monitoring requirements. Design hybrid connectivity architecture spanning on-premises and cloud environments. 2. Standards & Target-State Direction Define and maintain ne

- **Id**: 758421
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/igniteitservices-network-architect-sme>
- **Role**: Networking
- **Role family**: Networking
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Washington, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-17T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-17
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T01:07:39Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 84
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3918
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Dental insurance, Health insurance, Life insurance, Professional development, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Digital Government, IT Consulting & Digital Transformation

## Company

- **Id**: 678736
- **Name**: Ignite IT Services
- **Domain**: igniteitservices.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/igniteitservices>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 88
- **Open postings**: 19
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.474
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 50
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 111000
- **Max usd**: 223000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 151

## Technologies

- **DHCP** — Optional: no
- **DNS** — Optional: no
- **ITSM** — Optional: no
- **TCP/IP** — Optional: no
- **Zero Trust** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Days open**: 83

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T17:44:23Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 38
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.853
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 83
- **Expected fill days**: 50
- **Reasons**: conf:0, urgency, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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