# Network Engineering Operations Manager / Site Lead

**Company**: Leidos
**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 mission-focused Network Engineering Operations Manager / Site Lead to lead a team of approximately 14 network engineers supporting the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) under the Integrated Information Technology Support Services (I3TS) contract.

This is a people-leadership and operations-management role, not a hands-on keyboard engineering position. The ideal candidate is a proven leader who can establish priorities, develop personnel, maintain operational discipline, and communicate credibly with engineers, government stakeholders, and program leadership.

**Primary Responsibilities**

- Lead, Develop, and Manage the Team:

- Provide day-to-day leadership for a team of approximately 14 network engineers supporting enterprise operations, modernization, cybersecurity compliance, and mission requirements.

- Set clear priorities, assign work, manage competing demands, and ensure appropriate staffing coverage for operational and project requirements.

- Coach, mentor, and develop team members through regular feedback, goal setting, performance management, training plans, and career development.

- Drive Mission Execution and Operational Discipline:

- Translate government requirements, operational priorities, task orders, and program objectives into clear, executable team plans.

- Lead the team’s response to Cyber Tasking Orders (CTOs), Tasking Orders (TASKORDs), Fragmentary Orders (FRAGORDs), Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM) requirements, and Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) compliance activities.

- Establish and monitor operational metrics, service-level performance, project milestones, workload, risks, and corrective actions.

- Provide Technical Leadership Without Requiring Hands-On Engineering:

- Serve as an informed leader and customer-facing representative for enterprise network engineering and operations.

- Communicate effectively with network engineers, cybersecurity personnel, program management, government stakeholders, and other technical teams.

- Understand and oversee work involving enterprise routing, switching, firewalls, virtual private networks (VPNs), load balancing, network access control, unified communications, network monitoring, and secure communications systems.

- Partner With Government and Program Leadership:

- Serve as the primary leadership interface for the network engineering team with government customers, program management, and technical stakeholders.

- Provide concise, candid updates on operational posture, project progress, emerging risks, staffing needs, and decisions requiring leadership attention.

**Basic Qualifications**

- Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility at time of consideration.

- Bachelor’s degree and 12–15 years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree and 10–13 years of relevant experience.

- Demonstrated experience leading, supervising, coaching, and developing technical personnel in an operational, enterprise IT, network operations, cybersecurity, or comparable mission environment.

- Experience managing team priorities, workload, staffing coverage, performance expectations, and customer commitments.

- Ability to communicate credibly with technical teams and senior stakeholders regarding network operations, cybersecurity compliance, operational risk, and project execution.

- Working knowledge of enterprise network concepts, including routing and switching, firewalls, VPNs, network monitoring, network access control, unified communications, and cybersecurity compliance.

- Experience operating in a structured, high-accountability environment with formal tasking, deadlines, reporting requirements, and operational standards.

- Current DoD 8570/8140 baseline certification, such as Security+ or higher, at time of consideration.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Prior military service in a leadership role, especially as a senior enlisted leader, warrant officer, officer, or civilian equivalent leading communications, network operations, cyber, information technology, or technical support personnel.

- Experience supporting Department of War, Intelligence Community, federal civilian, or other cleared enterprise IT environments.

- Experience leading teams supporting 24/7 operations, mission systems, network operations centers, cyber operations, or geographically dispersed customers.

- Familiarity with CTOs, TASKORDs, FRAGORDs, IAVM requirements, STIGs, configuration management, and risk-management practices.

- Experience with enterprise networking technologies and environments, including Cisco routing and switching, Palo Alto firewalls, Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM), Cisco Nexus, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), or similar platforms.

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

## Skills

### Required
- network engineering
- cybersecurity
- leadership
- team management
- enterprise networking
- routing
- switching
- firewalls
- VPNs
- network monitoring
- unified communications

### Nice to have
- Cisco routing and switching
- Palo Alto firewalls
- Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
- Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM)
- Cisco Nexus
- Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
- Zero Trust architecture
- network segmentation
- micro-segmentation
- secure enterprise network modernization

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