IPv6 Subject Matter Expert
$120,000–$150,000 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Lead architecture guidance, hands-on expertise, and complex troubleshooting for enterprise-scale IP networks as an IPv6 Subject Matter Expert. Design, implement, and support dual-stack environments while coordinating across teams, mentoring personnel, and briefing senior stakeholders on risks and remediation strategies. Operate independently as a senior technical advisor to challenge designs and identify dependencies within federal agency infrastructure. This remote position requires travel to Washington, DC, and other locations as needed. The role supports critical system infrastructure for the Agency Office of the Chief Information Officer, focusing on network modernization, migration, and transformation in large, complex environments including cloud and data center settings.
Required Qualifications
- 10 years of professional experience in network engineering, network architecture, or related telecommunications/infrastructure disciplines.
- At least 5 years of demonstrated IPv6 experience covering architecture, addressing, routing, implementation, migration, dual-stack environments, and troubleshooting.
- Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting enterprise-scale IP networks.
- Experience with enterprise routing/switching and protocols/services such as BGP, OSPF/OSPFv3, EIGRP, IS-IS, IPv4/IPv6, DNS, DHCP/DHCPv6, ICMP/ICMPv6, TCP/IP, and SNMP, as applicable.
- Experience with network security technologies, including firewalls, access control, segmentation, and security monitoring.
- Experience with HLDs/LLDs, network diagrams, implementation plans, technical standards, assessments, gap analyses, root-cause analyses, and technical risk assessments.
- Experience supporting network modernization, migration, or transformation in large, complex environments, including data center, cloud, LAN/WAN, remote-access, or Internet environments.
- Strong technical communication, documentation, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Must be in the contiguous United States available to travel to DC and other locations on occasion/as needed.
Desired Qualifications
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, Network Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical discipline is preferred.
- Equivalent education, training, certifications, and professional experience may be considered subject to Government/Contractor approval.
- Federal Government network engineering, IPv6 mandates/standards, or enterprise IPv6 readiness initiatives.
- Enterprise IPv6 adoption/migration roadmaps and IPv6-only environments.
- AWS, Microsoft Azure, or equivalent cloud networking; data center networking and virtualization.
- Integration of IPv6 with firewalls, load balancers, DNS/DHCP, identity/access-control, security, monitoring, and management platforms.
- Network disaster recovery, resiliency, continuity, automation, modernization, or technology refresh.
- Relevant certifications such as CCIE/CCNP, JNCIP/JNCIE, recognized IPv6 credentials, Azure Network Engineer, AWS Advanced Networking, CISSP, Security+, or equivalent.
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