Description
Leidos is seeking a Lead Systems Engineer to join the Air Traffic Business Area within the Homeland Sector. As a Lead Systems Engineer, you will support the design, implementation, and lifecycle management of lab and data center infrastructure for FAA modernization programs.
You will own the low-level design layer, including rack elevations, wiring lists, port assignments, cable schedules, power budgets, methods of procedure, and as-built documentation. You will also run design reviews, commission installations, maintain configuration baselines, and provide technical direction to hardware technicians.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Develop low-level infrastructure designs from approved architectural concepts
- Produce installation work packages that enable technicians to execute independently
- Commission new installations and own punch-list resolution
- Maintain authoritative as-built documentation and configuration baselines
- Provide technical work direction to hardware technicians when onsite
- Serve as the engineering escalation point for physical/integration troubleshooting
- Lead design reviews for your environments
- Interface with procurement and engineering departments on hardware delivery and RMA
- Develop and improve engineering standards, templates, labeling schemes, and repeatable deployment processes
- Support compliance implementation by ensuring physical installations conform to applicable security standards
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, information technology, computer science, or a related field and at least 4 years of relevant experience, or a master's degree with at least 2 years of experience
- Demonstrated experience producing detailed infrastructure documentation
- Practical understanding of data center or lab infrastructure
- Experience with commissioning, validating, or accepting infrastructure installations
- Familiarity with networking fundamentals
- Proficiency with Visio, CAD, or equivalent diagramming tools
- Comfortable working across multiple concurrent projects with shifting priorities and compressed timelines
- Willingness to learn complex, non-standard environments
- Clear and effective verbal and written communication
- Ability to obtain and maintain a favorable Public Trust investigation
- US Citizenship
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with AI-assisted engineering workflows and tool-building
- Net+, CCNA, or equivalent network implementation experience
- Experience with infrastructure source-of-truth platforms
- Experience with scripting or automation applied to infrastructure documentation, validation, or data extraction
- Familiarity with configuration management and change-control processes
- Experience in technical leadership capacity
- Familiarity with data center infrastructure design standards
- Prior experience in FAA, civil aviation, or government lab environments
The salary range for this position is $87,100.00 - $157,450.00.