# Senior Transport Network Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $92,300.00 - $166,850.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Leidos is seeking a Senior Transport Network Engineer to lead vulnerability management and STIG compliance program for NMCI network infrastructure. The role involves providing technical leadership, making authoritative patch deployment decisions, and ensuring 72-hour SLA compliance across 40+ solution types supporting thousands of production devices.

**Responsibilities:**

- Own vulnerability management program strategy and execution

- Approve/reject patch deployments based on lab validation results

- Lead quarterly STIG compliance assessments and audit preparation

- Engage vendors (F5, Cisco, Palo Alto, etc.) at executive/technical levels for escalations

- Mentor and develop mid-level and junior engineers

- Report program status, risks, and metrics to senior leadership

- Lead emergency response to zero-day vulnerabilities and critical patches

- Ensure 72-hour patch SLA compliance (>90%)

- Achieve 100% completion of quarterly STIG assessments (160/year)

- Maintain quality of patch approvals, accountable for production impact

- Foster team performance, development, and retention

- Ensure DoD/Navy audit readiness and compliance

**Requirements:**

- B.S. Degree and 8-12 years network security and vulnerability management experience; years of experience can be in lieu of degree

- Must be a U.S. Citizen and possess an active Secret clearance

- Expert knowledge of F5, Cisco, firewalls, and enterprise network infrastructure

- DoD STIG compliance and audit experience

- Strong vendor relationship and escalation management skills

- CISSP, CCNP, or equivalent certifications preferred

## Skills

### Required
- F5
- Cisco
- firewalls
- enterprise network infrastructure
- DoD STIG compliance
- audit experience
- vendor relationship management

### Nice to have
- CISSP
- CCNP

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