- Lead network and cybersecurity assessments to identify gaps, vulnerabilities, and areas for improvement.
- Translate client requirements and regulatory needs into actionable strategies and technical solutions.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to clients, guiding them through design options, mitigation strategies, and implementing best practices.
- Prepare reports, risk analyses, and recommendations tailored to each client's operational and compliance needs.
- Deliver workshops and presentations to educate stakeholders on network architecture and cybersecurity principles.
- Advise on network readiness for IoT and smart building device connectivity, including bandwidth planning, device segmentation, and lifecycle management.
- Design secure, scalable, and resilient wired and wireless network infrastructures.
- Develop cybersecurity designs including segmentation, access control, encryption, and monitoring strategies.
- Collaborate with client IT, OT, and building systems teams to ensure integration of physical and logical networks.
- Support secure onboarding of smart building systems and IoT endpoints, ensuring alignment with enterprise IT and OT security policies.
- Support policy development for secure device management, patching, and incident response.
- Review and validate designs to ensure alignment with standards such as NIST, ISO/IEC 27001, and HIPAA.
- Perform field validation and testing of installed network and security components.
- Work alongside technology consultants, integrators, and commissioning agents to coordinate design and implementation timelines.
- Support procurement by developing specifications and reviewing vendor submittals.
- Coordinate integration requirements and support network readiness for connected devices such as sensors, controllers, and edge gateways.
- Monitor progress of cybersecurity-related activities throughout design, construction, and occupancy phases.
- Assist in post-occupancy reviews and support planning for continuous improvement.
- Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Network Engineering, or related field required.
- Minimum 5+ years of experience in network engineering and cybersecurity consulting required.
- Industry certifications such as CCNA/CCNP, CISSP, CEH, or GSEC preferred.
- Demonstrated experience in designing and assessing networks for healthcare, education, commercial, or lab environments.
- Working knowledge of networking protocols, firewalls, VLANs, VPNs, and threat detection technologies.
- Familiarity with relevant codes, standards, and frameworks (e.g., NIST CSF, IEC 62443, NFPA 110, HITRUST).
- Experience supporting the secure integration of IoT or smart building technologies is a strong plus.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with keen attention to detail.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly present technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Proficiency with tools such as Wireshark, Nmap, vulnerability scanners, and network modeling software.
- Ability to manage multiple client engagements and work collaboratively in cross-functional teams.
- We are relentless in our pursuit of client adoration (not simply satisfaction). Consistent delivery of the best service is what we are about.
- We are committed to ensuring our practice is equitable for all employees, representative of the communities around us – and focused on the future of design. We advocate for equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts through the leadership of our DEI Council, Employee Resource Groups and other community advocacy initiatives.
- We’re about communication and transparency here. If you want to talk to someone about an idea you have, or a challenge that needs addressing, we’re ready for you.
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As an integrated design firm, we do a lot of things. But at our core, we help people continuously flourish.
We leverage the heart, passion and intelligence of our more than 1,000 creative thinkers to develop solutions for some of the greatest challenges facing our clients and society. Whether designing for equity in education, accessible healthcare, inclusive communities, new scientific discoveries or the “next big idea” in business, we partner with organizations to help them improve human life.
We do this through a design approach we created called Living-Centered Design. Our approach realizes that to create a world where people continuously flourish, we must address the complex interdependencies that exist between people, businesses, communities, society and the environment.
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