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Network Engineer SME

Leidos senior full-time

Salary

$139,100.00 - $251,450.00 per year

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Description

Leidos has a new opportunity for a Network Engineer SME in their Intel Sector's Solutions Analysis Business Area. The role involves providing technical expertise in network engineering, administration, and operations, maintaining enterprise network infrastructure, monitoring technology obsolescence, managing upgrades, and evaluating alternatives across on-premises and cloud IT infrastructures.

The Network Engineer SME provides technical expertise in network engineering, administration, and operations. This role maintains enterprise network infrastructure to ensure proper configuration, availability, performance, capacity, and maintenance. This role monitors technology obsolescence, manages upgrades, and evaluates alternatives across on-premises and cloud IT infrastructures, both virtual and physical. This role monitors operations and collects and evaluates metrics to manage network services and for inclusion into project KPIs and Service Level Agreements. This individual performs risk assessment, risk mitigation analysis, vendor trade studies, and appropriate documentation to ensure network services are available according to established Service Level Agreements. This role ensures continuity of operations including disaster recovery.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Architecture, design, installation, configuration, administration, support, and maintenance of networks, including associated hardware and cloud resources.
  • Updating to new technologies, tuning performance, and prioritizing the implementation of critical system patches.
  • Infrastructure includes on-premises and cloud resources.

Benefits:

  • Competitive benefits including Paid Time Off, 11 paid Holidays, 401K with a 6% company match and immediate vesting, Flexible Schedules, Discounted Stock Purchase Plans, Technical Upskilling, Education and Training Support, Parental Paid Leave, and more.

Basic Qualifications:

  • Master's degree with 15+ years of prior relevant experience or a Doctorate with 13+ years of prior relevant experience.
  • Active TS/SCI with a Polygraph.
  • Expert in providing technical/management leadership on major tasks or technology assignments.
  • Expert in establishing goals and plans that meet project objectives.
  • Domain and expert technical knowledge.
  • Experience with Cloud technologies - AWS.
  • Expert level experience with Cisco and Nexus Architecture.
  • Scripting skills with shell, python, PERL.
  • Proven experience installing and maintaining security patches on servers.
  • Documented experience creating and maintaining detailed documentation for standard systems operating procedures.
  • Expert experience supporting Windows and Unix environments.
  • Ability to analyze available hardware and software from external vendors and make recommendations for purchase and installation.
  • Expert experience with ITIL.
  • In-depth knowledge of Cisco Enterprise environments.
  • Expert experience with IP, Routing and Connection services.
  • Expert experience working on a SAFe Agile Framework.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience architecting and securing hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
  • Experience developing DevOps infrastructure using GitHub, Jenkins, Ansible and related tools.
  • CCNP, CCNA.

Skills

Required

  • Cloud technologies
  • AWS
  • Cisco and Nexus Architecture
  • shell
  • python
  • PERL
  • ITIL
  • Cisco Enterprise environments
  • IP
  • Routing and Connection services
  • SAFe Agile Framework
  • Windows and Unix environments

Nice to have

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