Description
The Defense & Intelligence Group of Leidos has an opening for the Navy's Service Management, Integration and Transport (SMIT) Outside Continental United States (OCONUS) IT Specialist in Diego Garcia.
The SMIT contract provides secure end-to-end Information Technology (IT) services to over 400,000 hardware devices and 600,000+ users at over 1,600 Continental United States (CONUS) sites and over 82 OCONUS sites across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
The successful candidate will be responsible for assisting with the monitoring and maintenance of the network infrastructure providing connectivity services to vessels in port. This will involve completing daily checks, performing vulnerability scans, monitoring network connections, resolving and reporting outages, and maintaining the lifecycle replacement of network equipment.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for day-to-day activities of Network Operations.
- Advise on distributed network computing issues.
- Ensures effective and efficient operation of network systems, architecture, and topology.
- Assist the Cyber Team in employing approved defense-in-depth principles and practices.
- Assist in the development and update of standard operating procedures (SOPs) for connect/disconnect services, fiber optic cable testing, and fiber optic cable repair.
- Operate tools and equipment required to repair and maintain UCA fiber optic cables.
- Conduct testing of UCA cables at required intervals.
- Update UCA status in the UCA tracker.
- Track planned arrival and departure of vessels at assigned piers and respond within the required service target.
- Track daily activities in the approved ticketing system.
- Conduct inventory, maintenance, and repair of UCA cables.
- Sustain and operate in a remote and austere environment.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and 2-4 years of prior relevant experience, or a Master's degree with less than 2 years of relevant experience.
- Must be a US citizen and have an active Secret clearance.
- Must possess an IAT II level certification.
- Must possess a Network certification.
- Willing to provide on-site/on-call support 24/7, 365 days a year.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Possess a Microsoft Systems certification.
- Demonstrated hands-on expertise in networking technologies and data centers.
- Previous experience in the military or as a contractor supporting pier side connect/disconnect service.
- Hands-on experience working with DoD networks.
- ACAS experience.
- Experience with ISP/OSP Fiber Cabling.
- Experience with computer hardware and troubleshooting.
- Possess knowledge of troubleshooting point-to-point connections.
The salary range for this position is $57,850.00-$89,000.00.