United States Postal Service
External Publication for Job Posting 11336324

If this job requires qualification on an examination, the number of applicants who will be invited to take or retake the

examination may be limited.

Branch

Information Technology

Job Posting Period

05/09/2023 - 05/16/2023

Job Title

NETWORK ARCHITECT IV

Facility Location

RALEIGH ITSC

4200 WAKE FOREST RD

RALEIGH, NC 27668-9040

OTHER LOCATIONS MAY BE CONSIDERED

Position Information

TITLE: NETWORK ARCHITECT IV

GRADE: V - 01

FLSA DESIGNATION: Exempt

OCCUPATION CODE: 2210-0468

NON-SCHEDULED DAYS: Saturday/Sunday

HOURS: 08:00 A.M. to 05:00 P.M.

SALARY RANGE: 113.960,00 - 131.585,00 USD Annually

FINANCE NUMBER: 364012

BENEFIT INFORMATION: The salary will be based on previous experience, salary history, and current postal pay policies.

We offer excellent benefits including health and life insurance, retirement plan, savings/investment plan with employer

contribution, flexible spending, flextime scheduling of core work hours, annual and sick leave.

Persons Eligible to Apply

All U.S. Citizens, permanent resident aliens, citizens of American Samoa or any other territory owing allegiance to the United

States. Applicants must be available for screening activities, including an interview. Applicants entitled to veterans’
preference and/or covered by the Veterans Employment Opportunity Act may apply for any posted position.

If you are a military veteran, you must attach a copy of your DD-214 (Member Copy #4) to your application under the

Veterans Preference tab.

Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered with the Selective Service System.

Applicants must be age 18 at the time of hire (or age 16 with a high school diploma). All applicants must apply online at

www.usps.com/careers to be considered for this employment opportunity. Paper or Emailed Applications for Employment will

not be accepted in person or by email. You must have a valid email address to apply as communication regarding

employment opportunities, examinations, interviews and background checks will be conveyed by email.

Please add the following email domain addresses to your contact list right away to allow correspondence, especially if you

use SPAM blocking software, use a yahoo or gmail account, or use a work or military email address!

@usps.gov @psionline.com @geninfo.com

NOTICE SCREENINGS REQUESTED: You may receive multiple requests for background checks in regards to this

employment opportunity. Respond to all requests quickly as we anticipate filling our vacancies quickly and nonresponses

may result in disqualification for this opportunity.

Newly appointed EAS Grade employees are subject to a 1-year probationary period.

Applicants must demonstrate in writing the requirements listed on the announcement through a combination of education,

training and experience. You may use both your Summary of Accomplishments and description of duties (under Work

Experience) to address each of the requirements listed.

Background Check

The Inspection Service criminal background check is conducted using United States information resources only (e.g., FBI
fingerprint check, state and county checks). A criminal background check involves a 5-year inquiry for any location where
the individual has resided, worked or gone to school within the United States or its territories. As a result of this limitation,
the criminal background checks of individuals who have not resided in the United States or its territories for the preceding
5-years may not be considered complete. The Inspection Service may be able to process inquiries for U.S. Citizens only,
but only if their time spent out of the country was spent as: a trailing spouse or dependent of someone working for the U.S.
government (military or civilian), a missionary, a student attending school in a foreign country, a Peace Corps participant, or
as an employee of a U.S.-based employer/company. If the Inspection Service is unable to perform a complete background
check because of residency outside the United States, such individuals will be ineligible for Postal employment.

Functional Purpose

Serves as a subject matter expert (SME) in Network as a Service (NaaS) solutions for on-premise private cloud and public

cloud engineering/architecture for the Network & Compute Engineering teams. Leads the adoption and implementation of

NaaS technology systems via planning, automation and optimization. Depending upon assignment, this role will focus on

access, lifecycle, services, or performance networks.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Serves as a SME; leads projects and initiatives for NaaS Solutions. Provides technical direction and guidance to others

regarding the adoption and implementation of NaaS technologies and architecture. Ensures alignment with organizational

strategies and objectives.

2. Designs or Engineers lifecycle of network technologies both mainstream and non-mainstream including operating guides,

configuration baselines, and implementation standards for Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) and Opensource technologies.

This applies to network hardware, software defined network technologies, cloud-based technologies, enterprise voice and

other associated technologies.

3. Provides leadership on automation of provisioning, patching, lifecycle of network and voice technologies utilizing

DevSecOps strategies.

4. Provides leadership on automation of provisioning of service deployments through Cloud and NaaS solutions utilizing

DevSecOps strategies for use by applications, enterprise data & tenant architectures.

5. Designs or Engineers physical and virtual networks, cloud environments/services, and network security measures across a

wide variety of systems.

6. Provides escalated technical assistance to systems professionals engaged in the analysis, design, development,

implementation and maintenance of IT systems. Escalates issues to appropriate personnel.

7. Designs or Engineers optimized performance measurements, resiliency and security metrics utilizing standards, policies,

processes and industry best practices for all technology offerings.

8. Designs or Engineers existing on-premise technology offerings (LAN, WAN, Wireless, Telecom, Remote access Services,

Software defined networks).

9. Provides innovation expertise via research to evaluate emerging technologies for new offerings, technology service

designs, and concept assessment/evaluation.

10. Provides project oversight and technical guidance to lower level employees, and employees assigned on a project or task

force basis.

SUPERVISION

Manager of unit to which assigned.

The United States Postal Service has the following excellent and challenging employment opportunity for highly motivated
and innovative individuals. Successful candidates must demonstrate through a combination of education, training, and
experience the following requirements:

Requirements

1. EDUCATION REQUIREMENT: Applicants must possess one of the following: 1. Bachelors or Graduate degree in

Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a closely related field from a college or university accredited by

a national or regional accreditation organization recognized and sanctioned by the U.S. Department of Education. OR 2.

Possess four (4) years of equivalent professional experience managing enterprise-wide network or compute technologies.

2. Ability to adopt or implement technologies or systems for Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) and Opensource technologies

at an enterprise level, including Network as a Service (NaaS) using industry developments, business information systems

and practices, development methods, procedures, standards, techniques, Agile application life cycle, test driven

development, continuous integration of code development, and current cloud technologies.

3. Skill using cloud services from one or more of the primary Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) (e.g., Amazon, Microsoft or

Google) sufficient to manage and design Cloud-based NaaS solutions.

4. Knowledge of traditional and innovative voice protocols sufficient to lead the design of enterprise voice solutions.

5. Ability to integrate and lead integration of on-premise technologies from providers (e.g., AT&T, Verizon, Cisco) with

existing organizational technologies, systems and/or services.

6. Skill leading development of automation technologies sufficient to manage NaaS in a DevSecOps environment across a

large Information Technology environment.

7. Ability to communicate, orally and in writing, sufficient to develop and present technical briefings; provide written and/or

verbal guidance on technical issues; and prepare/present recommendations and reports to all levels of management

including executive leadership.

8. Ability to lead and review others’ research, analysis, and evaluation of new and existing designs, develop requirements,
and identify system solutions in detailed measurable terms that achieve optimum performance and cost effectiveness.

Qualified applicants must successfully pass a pre-employment drug screening to meet the U.S. Postal Service's requirement
to be drug free. Applicants must also be a U.S. citizen or have permanent resident alien status.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

Applications must be submitted by 11:59 p.m., Central Time, of the posting's closing date. Applicants claiming veterans'
preference must attach a copy of member copy 4 (only) of Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty (DD Form
214) or other proof of eligibility if claiming 10-point veterans' preference. The United States Postal Service (USPS) is an
equal opportunity employer. The USPS provides reasonable accommodation for any part of the application, interview, and/or
selection process, please make your request to the examiner, selecting official or local manager of Human Resources. This
request can also be made by someone on your behalf. Explain the nature of your limitations and the accommodation
needed. The decision on granting reasonable accommodation will be on a case-by-case basis.

SPECIAL NOTE: Current career Postal Service employees are ineligible to apply to this posting.