Strategic Growth Partners provides both operations and strategic support to commercial organizations. Our client is a leading global professional services firm dedicated to helping organizations tackle their most complex business issues, maximize stakeholder value, and deliver sustainable change.

Their Corporate Performance Improvement practice is looking for a Network Engineering Lead to drive large-scale network assessment, consolidation, and network transformation for clients operating complex, globally distributed infrastructure environments, including federal and defense networks. This role requires someone who has redesigned enterprise network architectures at scale - not just operating existing networks.

Workplace Type: 80% travel. Hybrid.

Employment Type: Full-Time

Clearance: Active Secret Clearance required; TS/SCI eligibility strongly preferred.

Compensation: Hourly rate is DOE.

Experience Should Include:

• Wide-area network (WAN) and local-area network (LAN) architecture, software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) design and implementation, and SASE deployment, plus carrier-class transport networks including TDM-to-IP/Ethernet migration.
• Legacy circuit optimization, bandwidth/latency analysis, and network cost modeling, including circuit-level inventory and retirement of legacy TDM circuits.
• Building and maintaining a circuit-by-circuit inventory with, at a minimum, Circuit ID, circuit type, bandwidth, A and Z locations, carrier, contract terms (term, expiry, and renewal), and costs (recurring and one-time).
• Reconciling carrier bills to the circuit inventory, including matching invoices line by line to circuits and identifying billing errors, disputes and credits, orphaned or unused circuits, and rate or term variances.
• Telecom Expense Management (TEM), including platforms, processes, carrier invoice audits, disputes, and optimization.
• Network security architecture, including micro-segmentation, Zero Trust networking, and perimeter modernization.
• Multi-classification network environments and cross-domain solution architectures.
• SATCOM, wireless integration, and tactical/edge network design.
• Government telecommunications policy and compliance. Direct experience with DoD network environments (for example, DISN) and policies such as DoDI 8010.01 is a strong advantage and preferred for this role.
• AI-driven network monitoring, anomaly detection, and optimization tooling. Baseline competency with AI-assisted tools is expected; candidates should articulate how AI accelerates network analysis and operations.
• Negotiating with carriers and maintaining a general understanding of available commercial models and contracts.• Designing and architecting 99.99% uptime hybrid network infrastructure with zero single points of failure. Proven experience with active-active failover across on-premises and cloud environments, sub-second recovery mechanisms, and multi-region/multi-availability-zone redundancy.• Federal contracting experience.• Program execution of circuit-by-circuit cutover and retirement, including tracking owners, dependencies, and risks, and coordinating providers and vendors through cutover.• Standing up a rapid-response (SWAT-style) team to accelerate a running network program, including reading out an in-flight program's leadership, resources, financials, schedule, and obstacles.