Network Engineering & Discovery Manager

Leidos is seeking an experienced Network Discovery Lead to join their Defense Enclave Services (DES) team, supporting a digital modernization program critical to the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and Department of Defense (DoD) Fourth Estate Agencies (DAFAs).

The Network Discovery Lead will oversee a team of network engineers and analysts responsible for performing virtual and physical discovery of DAFA networks and associated analyses to establish a detailed network migration plan for each DAFA's journey to the DoDNet environment.

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple teams of engineers and analysts tasked with performing physical and virtual discovery of DAFA networks and analysis of collected data to establish a detailed plan for network migrations to DoDNet.
• Mentor network engineers while collaborating closely with the Network Engineering Lead and Project Managers to ensure alignment and team growth.
• Continuously seek process enhancements to streamline and accelerate network discovery, analysis, and planning.
• Plan and design secure network solutions to consolidate or migrate 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 that uses standard 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 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.
• Serve as lead architect for the agencies supported through migrations.
• Set strategy and improve processes and methods for network discovery and planning.
• Solve high-level network architecture problems and work through them with agency engineers.
• Mentor and develop engineers.
• Support leadership during migration prep and execution.
• Multitask across many concurrent agencies and workstreams.
• Bring technical depth from Layer 1 hardware through routing adjacencies and deep technical solutions.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and 12+ years of prior relevant experience or Master's degree with 10+ years of experience.
• Experience managing teams of engineers, including mentoring and fostering communication and collaboration across the team.
• Experience documenting logical and physical designs using drawing tools.
• 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.
• Significant experience upgrading and LCR of network devices.
• Expertise with common IT infrastructure networking in the areas of LAN, WAN, TCP/UDP, IPSec, VPN, Proxies, Routing, and Firewalls.
• Experience working with two or more of the following network technologies: Cisco, Juniper, F5, Aruba, Palo Alto, Dell, Infoblox, Brocade, and Fortinet.
• Experience in designing and implementing medium to large network infrastructure and producing corresponding technical documentation.
• Able to work as part of a team to troubleshoot and resolve complex network issues.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience presenting designs and plans to technical leadership personnel and boards for approvals.
• Current IAT Level II (or higher) Certification such as Security + or CISSP.
• Must have an active DOD Secret clearance.

Benefits:

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