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Transport Network Engineer

Leidos Pearl Harbor, HI senior full-time

Salary

$73,450 - $132,775 per year

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Description

We are seeking a Transport Network Engineer to support the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA-PAC) Ford Island, Hawaii. The successful candidate will perform sustainment, maintenance, problem, and change management services to ensure secure, reliable, and uninterrupted availability of the Department of Defense networks.

Responsibilities:

  • Perform network management system design, develop methods of procedure, analysis, testing, and modifications of architecture in support of software/hardware technical refresh and upgrades.
  • Implement new network hardware on operational nodes.
  • Deploy network changes and monitor for impacts to customer traffic.
  • Recommend best practices for network operation and maintenance.
  • Provide ad-hoc engineering support, statistics/data gathering, modeling, and creating/updating flowcharts.

Engineering Incident Management Escalation Support:

  • Perform fault isolation, analysis, and troubleshooting across various transport platforms.
  • Update ServiceNow tickets with accurate documentation.
  • Provide situational awareness reporting to customers and management.
  • Support Authorized Service Interruption (ASI) activities.

Requirements:

  • Currently possess DoD 8750 certification at IAT level II, Security+ CE or equivalent.
  • BS degree and 4-8 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 2-6 years of prior relevant experience.
  • Currently possess an active Secret security clearance.
  • Proficient in one or more transport platforms: CIENA 6500, CIENA Corestream, Cisco NCS2K, CISCO MSPP 15454/15310, SYCAMORE ODXC 16K/9K, XTERA.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Equally proficient in Ciena and/or Cisco configuration, troubleshooting, and design.
  • Experience with Power systems and Network Timing.
  • Experience with Dense Wavelength Division (DWDM) and Synchronous Optical Networks (SONET).
  • Possess understanding of Physical (Layer 1) and Data Link (Layer 2) network troubleshooting.

Pay Range: $73,450.00 - $132,775.00

Skills

Required

  • CIENA 6500
  • Cisco NCS2K
  • CISCO MSPP 15454/15310
  • SYCAMORE ODXC 16K/9K
  • XTERA
  • SONET Optical/Fiber Transport
  • Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
  • Time Division Multiplexing

Nice to have

  • Ciena configuration
  • Cisco configuration
  • Power systems
  • Network Timing
  • DWDM
  • SONET
  • Physical network troubleshooting
  • Data Link network troubleshooting

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