Senior Network Engineer

Leidos•Odenton, MD

3d•$92,300 - $166,850•Onsite

About The Position

Leidos is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to join its Defense Enclave Services (DES) team at Ft. Meade, Maryland. The DES program supports DISA’s enterprise information technology services and a large-scale discovery, design, and migration effort to consolidate Department of Defense IT services into a single service-provider model. The role supports discovery, analysis, design, and network migration activities to move DoD agencies into the modernized DoDNet environment. The engineer plans and designs secure enterprise network solutions, assesses legacy environments, develops architectures using approved design patterns, and creates implementation and transition plans. The role includes designing wide-area connectivity and secure access, planning capacity and scaling, optimizing network performance, documenting and redesigning service paths, supporting IPv4 and IPv6 addressing, and coordinating with information assurance teams on DoD compliance and accreditation artifacts. The position is based at Ft. Meade, MD. An active Secret security clearance is required before starting, with the ability to obtain a Top Secret clearance. U.S. citizenship is required. The stated pay range is $92,300 to $166,850.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and at least 8 years of relevant experience; specific experience, education, and training may be considered in lieu of a degree.
Active DoD Secret clearance before starting; must be able to obtain a Top Secret clearance.
U.S. citizenship.
Network certification meeting or exceeding CCNA level; comparable vendor certification may be accepted upon review.
Active DoD IAT Level II certification, such as Security+, or equivalent before starting.
Experience documenting logical or physical designs with tools such as Visio, PowerPoint, Gliffy, Cameo, or MagicDraw.
Experience conducting technical troubleshooting to resolve issues.
Experience conducting site surveys or analyzing site-survey data.
Experience creating or executing migration plans for circuits, network traffic, services, applications, or data between environments or to a commercial cloud provider; alternatively, experience planning or executing an IT technology or lifecycle refresh.
Extensive experience upgrading and performing lifecycle refreshes of network devices.
Broad exposure to IT infrastructure networking, including LAN, WAN, TCP/UDP, IPSec, VPN, proxies, Layer 2/Layer 3 routing, and firewalls.
Experience with at least two of the following vendor network technologies: Cisco, Juniper, F5, Aruba, Palo Alto, Dell, Brocade, and Fortinet.
Demonstrated experience designing and implementing medium-to-large network infrastructure and producing corresponding technical documentation.
Ability to work as part of a team to troubleshoot and resolve complex network issues.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to draft SOPs and technical documentation.
Ability to communicate significant organizational or project matters to executive leadership, internally or with clients.
Ability to present designs and plans to technical leadership and approval boards.

Nice To Haves

Certified Cisco Network Professional (CCNP) or equivalent.
Experience with enterprise network management tools such as Palo Alto Panorama, SolarWinds, Cisco Prime, Cisco DNA, What’s Up Gold, or Junos Space.
Experience designing and implementing VTC solutions.
Experience with ScienceLogic SL1 and/or SolarWinds.
Hands-on experience with SD-WAN.
Expertise in designing and improving complex, geographically distributed enterprise networks.
Expert knowledge of DoD network-infrastructure security requirements.
Experience hardening network infrastructure, including implementing DoD STIGs.

Responsibilities

Plan and design secure network solutions to consolidate connectivity services under an enterprise service.
Partner with stakeholders and technical experts to discover legacy environments, assess capabilities, configurations, and requirements, and develop designs and architectures using approved design patterns.
Design secure wide-area connectivity, including underlay, overlay, and COI transport, to meet performance, quality-of-service, security, and mission requirements.
Provide secure wired and wireless access solutions, integrate standards and use cases, and develop implementation and transition plans.
Integrate network and security-stack capacity planning and scaling into solution designs.
Investigate network performance and identify optimization strategies to meet capacity and performance standards.
Identify legacy service paths, including data flows, firewall rule sets, and ACLs, and design future enterprise-service capabilities that balance security, sustainability, and maintainability.
Support development of IPv4 and IPv6 addressing schemes.
Work with information assurance teams to support compliance with DoD standards and provide accreditation artifacts.
Document logical or physical designs using drawing tools.
Troubleshoot and resolve network issues, individually and as part of a team.
Conduct site surveys or analyze data obtained from site surveys.
Create or execute migration plans for circuits, network traffic, services, applications, or data, or plan or execute technology and lifecycle refreshes.
Upgrade and perform lifecycle refreshes of network devices.
Design and implement medium-to-large network infrastructure and produce technical documentation, including SOPs.
Communicate significant organizational or project matters to executive leadership and present designs and plans to technical leadership and approval boards.