Network Engineering Manager
About The Position
The Naval Maritime Maintenance Enterprise Solution (NMMES) is the U.S. Navy’s enterprise system supporting maritime maintenance planning, execution, and readiness across the Fleet and supporting shore activities. NMMES enables critical maintenance, logistics, and operational decision-making by integrating data across shipyards, regional maintenance centers, and supporting commands within a secure, mission-critical DoD environment. As the Network Engineering Manager, you will play a key leadership role within the NMMES Infrastructure and Operations team, overseeing the design, implementation, security, and day-to-day operations of the network environment that underpins this mission-essential program. This role blends hands-on technical expertise with team leadership and coordination across cybersecurity, systems administration, cloud, and program management teams.
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years of experience in network engineering or a closely related technical field
- At least 1–3 years of experience in a managerial or team lead role
- Strong knowledge of enterprise networking concepts including TCP/IP, routing protocols, VLANs, WAN/LAN architectures, and network security
- Hands-on experience with network security technologies such as firewalls, VPNs, intrusion detection/prevention systems, and boundary protection
- Familiarity with DoD and Department of the Navy Information Assurance (IA) and cybersecurity requirements
- Experience supporting networks in secure, mission-critical, or regulated environments
- Ability to lead teams, prioritize workloads, and coordinate across multiple technical disciplines
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting DoD or Navy programs, preferably financial or enterprise systems
- Knowledge of cloud networking concepts and hybrid on-prem/cloud architectures
- Experience with network monitoring, performance management, and capacity planning tools
- Familiarity with RMF, ATO processes, and audit-driven environments
- Industry certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, CISSP, or equivalent
- Experience supporting large, geographically distributed user bases
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and day-to-day management of network engineering staff supporting the NMMES environment
- Plan, design, implement, and maintain secure, highly available enterprise network architectures
- Oversee network operations including routing, switching, firewalls, VPNs, load balancers, and boundary protection devices
- Ensure network configurations comply with DoD, DON, and NMMES security requirements and accreditation standards
- Coordinate with Cyber Security, Systems Administration, Cloud, and DevOps teams to support system performance, scalability, and resiliency
- Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex network issues, outages, and performance degradations
- Develop and maintain network documentation, diagrams, standard operating procedures, and configuration baselines
- Support system upgrades, technology refreshes, and modernization initiatives
- Provide status reporting, risk identification, and recommendations to program leadership
- Mentor and develop network engineering staff while ensuring service level objectives and operational milestones are met
Benefits
- Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities. Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families. At CACI, you will receive comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
