# Senior Network Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $131,300.00 - $237,350.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Leidos is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to join a team responsible for designing, migrating, implementing, enhancing, optimising, and maintaining LAN/DATACENTER/WAN networks.

The successful candidate will work on various technical projects, including network consolidation and integration, architecture designs and updates, site renovations, and relocations.

**Primary Responsibilities:**

- Provide technical expertise and assistance with network integration and consolidation efforts across multiple systems environments.

- Resolve technical problems of moderate complexity related to network hardware and systems installation and upgrades.

- Collaborate with customers, vendors, and technical staff to analyse business and technical requirements.

- Engineer and implement technical solutions from cradle to grave.

- Lead a team of engineers on projects, ensuring effective utilisation and finalised technical solutions.

- Assist and train engineers on new technologies to enhance organisational technical expertise.

- Understand software automation tools and incorporate programming languages to automate repetitive tasks.

- Document engineering standards, support network architecture and engineering designs, and changes.

- Evaluate current and emerging technologies, conduct technical assessments, and make recommendations to senior engineers.

- Demonstrate strong interpersonal and customer service skills.

- Complete individual projects and tasks with some oversight.

- Engineer first-article work on multiple system environments.

**Travel:** Occasional travel throughout the continental U.S. may be required.

**Basic Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's degree with at least 12 years of prior relevant experience, or Master's degree with 10 years of prior relevant experience, or 16 years of relevant career experience in lieu of degree.

- Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Poly is required.

- Layer 2 and Layer 3 hands-on configuration experience, with emphasis on dynamic routing protocols such as BGP, EIGRP, and OSPF.

- Knowledge of configuring GRE and IPSEC Tunnels, MPLS, DMVPN, Pseudowires, VPLS, and Remote Site and Site-to-Site VPNs.

- Excellent troubleshooting skills.

- Design and implementation of datacenter technologies using Nexus platforms.

- Hands-on experience with network monitoring, fault management, and performance analysis tools such as SYSLOG, SNMP, SolarWinds, ISE, etc.

- Familiarity with data centre infrastructure and experience with Cisco Routers, Switches, Next-Gen Firewalls, ESXi, VMware.

- Utilisation of Juniper SRX equipment and Palo Alto Firewalls to engineer boundary protection mechanisms.

- Experience with network security concepts, best practices, and technologies including SSH, IPSec, TACACS, PKI, firewall policies, DNS, Active Directory, and 802.1x.

- Engineering solutions with Cisco Call Manager and VTC technologies.

- Possess excellent written and oral communication skills.

**Additional Requirements:**

- As a condition of employment, this position requires the candidate to pass both a customer-required medical and psychological screening.

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## Skills

### Required
- BGP
- EIGRP
- OSPF
- GRE
- IPSEC
- MPLS
- DMVPN
- Pseudowires
- VPLS
- Cisco Routers
- Switches
- Nexus platforms
- SYSLOG
- SNMP
- SolarWinds
- ISE
- Juniper SRX
- Palo Alto Firewalls
- ESXi
- VMware
- SSH
- TACACS
- PKI
- DNS
- Active Directory
- 802.1x

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