Network Security Architect
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CTI Consulting
Fort Worth, TX, US
Summary
Design and architect secure network solutions for hybrid on-premises and cloud environments while ensuring compliance with security policies. Provide technical leadership and mentoring to the network engineering team while managing connectivity, routing, and firewall configurations.
Job Description
About This Opportunity
CTI Staffing is partnering with a leading transportation and logistics organization to find a Network Security Architect for their network security team, based in the Fort Worth, TX area (remote with periodic onsite).
This team owns secure network infrastructure across a hybrid on-prem and cloud environment — the person in this seat will shape how the organization connects, routes, and protects traffic at enterprise scale, not just maintain what's already built.
What You'll Do
- Design and architect secure network solutions aligned to organizational security policy and compliance requirements
- Implement and manage hybrid connectivity across on-premises and cloud environments
- Configure and optimize routing protocols for performance and redundancy
- Deploy and manage next-gen firewall solutions for threat protection
- Design DNS strategies for secure name resolution and traffic management
- Architect private networking solutions including network segmentation and zero-trust design
- Translate business requirements into secure network architecture alongside cross-functional teams
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to network engineering staff
Requirements
What You Bring
Must-Have:
- Expertise establishing and managing secure hybrid connectivity (VPN, ExpressRoute or equivalent)
- Advanced knowledge of routing protocols (BGP, OSPF) and multi-path route optimization
- Hands-on experience configuring, managing, and troubleshooting next-generation firewall platforms
- Deep understanding of DNS architecture and security (DNSSEC, DNS filtering, DNS-based threat prevention)
- Experience designing private networks, network segmentation, and zero-trust architectures
- 5+ years of network security architecture experience
- Strong cross-functional communication — able to translate business needs into technical architecture
Nice-to-Have:
- CISSP, CEH, or equivalent network security certification
- Experience in a regulated or high-availability industry (transportation, finance, healthcare)
- Experience mentoring network engineering teams
- Cloud security architecture experience (Azure preferred)
Technical Environment:
- Palo Alto Networks, Azure Firewall
- BGP, OSPF
- Azure hybrid networking (VNets, ExpressRoute)
- DNS/DNSSEC
What Success Looks Like:
- Secure network architecture designed and documented for a major hybrid connectivity initiative
- Firewall and DNS security policy implemented and validated against compliance requirements
- Trusted technical voice in cross-functional design reviews within the first 90 days
CTI is a prominent security consulting, planning, and design corporation. CTI’s security experts, specialists, and engineers have provided high tech security and operational/programmatic solutions for federal, state, and city governments, major corporations, and the aviation industry since 1986. CTI is a woman, minority owned corporation certified by the US Small Business Administration and the US Department of Transportation as a Small Disadvantaged Business Enterprise. Headquartered in Germantown, Maryland, CTI has regional offices in Houston, TX, Austin, TX and Chicago, IL.
CTI has extensive and comprehensive knowledge and experience in all areas of security, including vulnerability assessments, training, counterterrorism support, design of security systems, and emergency plan development. CTI’s experience, professionalism and dedication to customer service is evident by the many multi-year projects awarded to the firm.
CTI does not represent any security equipment or products, nor does it have any alliances with manufacturers or vendors offering products or services, which ensures our objectivity and provides our clients with the assurance that our only goal is total client satisfaction and the successful completion of all project tasks.
Founded
1986
Company size
11-50 employees
Industry
Public Safety
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Germantown, MD
CTI is a prominent security consulting, planning, and design corporation. CTI’s security experts, specialists, and engineers have provided high tech security and operational/programmatic solutions for federal, state, and city governments, major corporations, and the aviation industry since 1986. CTI is a woman, minority owned corporation certified by the US Small Business Administration and the US Department of Transportation as a Small Disadvantaged Business Enterprise. Headquartered in Germantown, Maryland, CTI has regional offices in Houston, TX, Austin, TX and Chicago, IL.
CTI has extensive and comprehensive knowledge and experience in all areas of security, including vulnerability assessments, training, counterterrorism support, design of security systems, and emergency plan development. CTI’s experience, professionalism and dedication to customer service is evident by the many multi-year projects awarded to the firm.
CTI does not represent any security equipment or products, nor does it have any alliances with manufacturers or vendors offering products or services, which ensures our objectivity and provides our clients with the assurance that our only goal is total client satisfaction and the successful completion of all project tasks.
Founded
1986
Company size
11-50 employees
Industry
Public Safety
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Germantown, MD
