# Senior Network Engineer **Company**: Leidos **Location**: Ft. Meade, MD **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $92,300.00 - $166,850.00 **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Odenton-MD/Senior-Network-Engineer_R-00195206?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_56c941b7-64c ## Description Leidos is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to join our Defense Enclave Services (DES) team at Ft. Meade, MD. The DES program is a highly demanding mission that requires expert technical and professional management to support DISA's enterprise Information Technology (IT) services. You will be supporting a large and complex IT discovery, design, and migration effort aimed at consolidating Department of Defense (DOD) IT services into a single service provider model. This role will include discovery, analysis, design, and network migration activities necessary to move a host of DoD agencies into the modernized DoDNet environment. **Primary Responsibilities:** - Plan and design secure network solutions to consolidate connectivity services under an enterprise service. - Partner with key stakeholders and technical experts to perform legacy environment discovery, assessing current capabilities, configurations, and unique requirements to develop a design and architecture leveraging approved design patterns. - Design secure wide area connectivity inclusive of underlay, overlay, and COI transport design that supports performance, quality of service, security, and mission requirements. - Provide secure access solutions leveraging wired and wireless technologies, integrating standards, use cases/scenarios, and develop associated implementation and transition plans. - Integrate capacity planning and scaling of network and security stack environments into the overall design of solutions. - Collect, investigate, and identify network optimization strategies and techniques to meet capacity and performance standards. - Identify legacy service paths (i.e., dataflow, firewall rulesets, and ACLs) and develop strategies and designs for the to-be enterprise service capability to meet requirements while balancing security, sustainability, and maintainability. - Support development of IP addressing schemes across IPv4 and IPv6 networks. - Work with information assurance teams to ensure compliance to DoD standards to assist with providing accreditation artifacts. **CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT:** - Must hold an active Secret security clearance prior to start and be able to obtain a Top Secret. (US Citizenship required) **Basic Qualifications:** - Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of prior relevant experience. Specific experience, education, and training may be considered in lieu of degree. - Active DoD Secret clearance - Require network certification which shall meet or exceed a CCNA (comparable vendor certification accepted upon review). - Require active DoD IAT Level II (i.e., Security+) certification or equivalent prior to start. - Experience documenting logical or physical designs using drawing tools (e.g., Visio, Powerpoint, Gliffy, Cameo, MagicDraw) to depict systems, subsystems, interfaces, components, and communications of I/T applications and infrastructure. - Experienced and comfortable with conducting technical troubleshooting to resolve issues. - Experience conducting site surveys or analyzing data obtained from site surveys. - Experience creating or executing a migration plan to move circuits, network traffic, services, applications, or data between environments or to a commercial cloud provider. Alternatively, experience planning or executing a technology refresh or lifecycle refresh of an existing I/T system. - Heavily experienced in upgrading and LCR of network devices. - Must have broad exposure to common I/T infrastructure networking in the areas of LAN, WAN, TCP/UDP, IPSec, VPN, Proxies, Routing (L2/L3), and Firewalls. - Must have experience in working with two or more of the following vendor network technologies: Cisco, Juniper, F5, Aruba, Palo Alto, Dell, Brocade, and Fortinet. - Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing medium to large network infrastructure and producing corresponding technical documentation. - Must be able to work as part of a team to troubleshoot and resolve complex network issues. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills. This shall include drafting SOPs and technical documentation. - Requires ability to communicate with executive leadership (internally or client) regarding matters of significant importance to the organization/project. - Must be able to present designs and plans to technical leadership personnel and boards for approvals. **Preferred Qualifications:** - Certified Cisco Network Professional (CCNP) or equivalent. - Demonstrated experience in one or more of the following enterprise network management tools such as PaloAlto Panorama, SolarWinds, Cisco Prime, Cisco DNA, What’s Up Gold, or Junos Space. - Experience in designing and implementing VTC solutions. - Experience with ScienceLogic SL1 and/or SolarWinds. - Hands-on experience with SD-WAN. - Demonstrate expertise in design and improvement of complex and geographically enterprise networks. - Expert knowledge of DoD security requirements for network infrastructure. - Demonstrate experience in system hardening of network infrastructure to include DoD STIG implementation. **Pay Range:** $92,300.00 - $166,850.00 ## Skills ### Required - CCNA - Security+ - LAN - WAN - TCP/UDP - IPSec - VPN - Proxies - Routing (L2/L3) - Firewalls - Visio - Powerpoint - Gliffy - Cameo - MagicDraw - Cisco - Juniper - F5 - Aruba - Palo Alto - Dell - Brocade - Fortinet ### Nice to have - CCNP - PaloAlto Panorama - SolarWinds - Cisco Prime - Cisco DNA - What's Up Gold - Junos Space - VTC solutions - ScienceLogic SL1 - SD-WAN --- Source: [Apply at leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Odenton-MD/Senior-Network-Engineer_R-00195206?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)