Sr Network Software Engineer (OMT)

Leidos • Sierra Vista, AZ

111d • $89,700 - $162,150

About The Position

Leidos is seeking a Sr. Operation and Management Network Software Engineer to join our AGUN team. PROGRAM SUMMARY: The AGUN program is a highly demanding mission and requires expert technical and professional management to support the Army’s global wide area network and security infrastructure. You will be supporting a large and complex network migration and operations for the US Army. This role will include resolving service tickets on the AGUN system, providing prioritized validated/tested automated workflows to the Operations and Management Team, and providing operational support activities for a global network. You must be able to work a rotating shift to be eligible for this position.

Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years' experience or Master's degree with 6+ years of experience (additional years of directly applicable experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree).
• Require active DoD IAT Level II (i.e. Security+) certification or equivalent prior to start.
• Demonstrated experience with supporting Cisco SDWAN.
• Knowledge of Software Defined Networking (SDN) concepts.
• Demonstrated experience with virtualization technologies such as VMware.
• Experience with Red Hat.
• Hands on experience with InfoVista.
• Must have experience in working with two or more of the following vendor network technologies: Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, Dell, or AppGate.
• Demonstrated experience using ServiceNow.
• Demonstrated experience with networking concepts and protocols: LAN, WAN, BGP, TCP/UDP, IPSec, VPN, Routing(L2/L3), and Firewalls.
• Demonstrate experience in one or more of the following enterprise network management tools such as Palo Alto Panorama, Cisco Prime, Cisco DNA, or Junos Space.
• Experience with the following protocols: SFTP, SSH, SCP, SNMP, NTP.
• Must be able to work as part of a team to lead troubleshooting and resolve complex network issues.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Certified Cisco Network Professional (CCNP) or equivalent.
• Demonstrated experience in Linux shell scripting.
• Experience with GitLab source control and CI/CD pipeline development.
• Experience using JIRA and Confluence.
• Experience managing trouble tickets and escalations.
• Experience with NetSecOps technologies including salt, git, Ansible, Terraform, Puppet and network element managers.
• Network Performance Management (SNMP, NETMON, LiveAction).
• Demonstrated experience in any two or more of the following: Netflow, Elastic, Kafka, Grafana, Prometheus, or Nexus Repo.
• Demonstrate expertise in design and improvement of complex and geographically diverse enterprise networks.
• Expert knowledge of US Army security requirements for network infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain secure network solutions operated as a centralized enterprise capability for the US Army.
• Support 24x7x365 AGUN operations focused on providing the Global Cyber Center (GCC) updates to facilitate command and control of the AGUN network.
• Conduct standard policy and configuration changes to the AGUN network, common remediation or those workflows considered pre-approved and normal.
• Provide management, triage, track, update workflows and service tickets in both JIRA Service Desk and GCC Service Now.
• Provide situational awareness on status of ticket resolution, provide status updates and brief updates as directed by the GCC.
• Escalate tickets and problems through the Jira Service Desk ticketing system to higher tier teams as required.
• Partner with key stakeholders and technical experts to perform legacy environment discovery, assessing current capabilities, configurations, and requirements to provide tier III support for the Army global network.
• Collect, investigate, and identify network optimization strategies and techniques to meet capacity and performance standards.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Health and Wellness programs
• Income Protection
• Paid Leave
• Retirement

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees