# Senior Network Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Bethesda, MD
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $116,350.00 - $210,325.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Leidos is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to support the National Digital Exploitation & OSINT Center (NDOC). The successful candidate will provide senior-level technical expertise in planning, coordination, implementation, and sustainment of major computer network initiatives.

**Primary Responsibilities:**

- Design, implement, and sustain highly available, scalable, and secure data center and enterprise network environments

- Support planning and integration of LAN/WAN infrastructure

- Provide technical leadership in configuration, optimization, and troubleshooting of Cisco ACI, routers, switches, firewalls, and load balancers

- Analyze and optimize network connectivity and performance

- Oversee use of network monitoring and ITSM tools such as ServiceNow, SolarWinds, NetBox, and PRTG

- Lead technical troubleshooting and incident resolution for complex network and data center issues

- Develop and maintain contingency and continuity plans and procedures

- Provide technical oversight of network infrastructure standards and practices

- Analyze network segmentation, performance, capacity, and latency requirements

- Coordinate with IT, Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, and Application teams

- Provide technical oversight of ServiceNow ITSM activities

- Prepare and present technical status reports, incident summaries, performance metrics, and recommendations

- Provide technical support and leadership for network modernization and data center consolidation initiatives

- Evaluate emerging network technologies and provide recommendations

- Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and work direction to network engineers and technicians

- Assist leadership with resource planning, work schedules, and personnel coverage

- May support evaluation of resumes and technical qualifications for network engineering vacancies

- May provide input to leadership regarding performance and development of assigned personnel

- May review and approve timesheets for assigned personnel

- Provide after-hours or on-call technical support as required

**Basic Qualifications:**

- Proven experience designing, implementing, and maintaining data center network architectures

- Hands-on experience with Cisco ACI, Nexus, and Catalyst platforms

- Strong understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, OSPF, BGP, VLANs, HSRP, SNMP, and multicast protocols

- Proficiency with network monitoring and ITSM tools

- In-depth knowledge of network security principles

- Familiarity with network asset lifecycle management, capacity planning, and hardware procurement processes

- Experience leading teams and managing performance

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Meets DoD 8140/8570.11- IAT Level II certification requirements

**Clearance:**

- US Citizenship required

- TS/SCI with Poly required for Position or TS/SCI and willingness to get a poly

**Education:**

- Bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of relevant experience

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Active Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification

- CCNP or CCIE certification

**Pay Range:** $116,350.00 - $210,325.00

## Skills

### Required
- Cisco ACI
- Nexus
- Catalyst
- TCP/IP
- DNS
- DHCP
- OSPF
- BGP
- VLANs
- HSRP
- SNMP
- multicast protocols
- ServiceNow
- SolarWinds
- NetBox
- network security principles
- firewall rules
- ACLs
- VPNs
- secure remote access

### Nice to have
- CCNA
- CCNP
- CCIE

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