# Cisco SD-WAN Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Odenton, MD
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $116,350.00 - $210,325.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We have an immediate need for a Cisco SD-WAN Engineer to provide technical support for the design, deployment, and maintenance of SD-WAN solutions within an enterprise environment.

As a Cisco SD-WAN Engineer, you will be part of a team that interacts with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including customers and vendors. You will be a subject matter expert (SME) in Cisco SD-WAN technologies, ensuring optimal performance, security, and scalability of WAN infrastructure across multiple environments (DEV/TEST and Production).

In this role, you will provide technical assistance, administer configurations, support testing, recommend enhancements, and troubleshoot issues related to Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN infrastructure.

**Responsibilities:**

- Design, configure, deploy, and manage Cisco SD-WAN solutions (Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, formerly known as Viptela or Meraki)

- Work closely with DRSN engineers and site personnel to coordinate deployments and maintenance actions

- Evaluate system network requirements and make appropriate technical recommendations

- Provide expertise in SD-WAN overlay/underlay networking, including BGP, OSPF, IPSec tunnels, and application-aware routing

- Implement and maintain Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager/vManage, Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller/vSmart, Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Validator/vBond, and Edge routers

- Configure and manage Quality of Service (QoS), security policies, and segmentation within the SD-WAN fabric

- Assist IA personnel regarding network security and compliance requirements

- Perform installation, testing, and validation of network components both remotely and on-site

- Monitor network performance, troubleshoot SD-WAN-related issues, and optimize WAN connectivity

- Document network architecture, configurations, and best practices

- Support deployments, upgrades, and migrations as required

**Benefits:**

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

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of overall related experience or Master's with 10+ years

- Experience in remotely configuring networking or transport devices

- Strong experience with Cisco SD-WAN (Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN/Viptela or Meraki)

- Expertise in routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP) and WAN technologies

- Ability to interpret network topology diagrams and implement configuration changes

- Experience in in-band and out-of-band network management

- Strong knowledge of VPN, IPSec, and on-premises deployment of SD-WAN Infrastructure

- Security+ Certification

- Must possess an active Top Secret with SCI eligibility clearance

- Must possess current DoD 8570 certification at IAT level II (Security+CE)

- Proficiency with Cisco IOS-XE, vManage, and Network automation tools

- Basic Linux Administration or command line interface (CLI) experience

## Skills

### Required
- Cisco SD-WAN
- Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
- Viptela
- Meraki
- BGP
- OSPF
- EIGRP
- WAN technologies
- VPN
- IPSec
- Security+
- DoD 8570
- Cisco IOS-XE
- vManage
- Linux Administration
- CLI

### Nice to have
- Cisco CCNP Enterprise
- CCNP Security
- Cisco DNA Center
- Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager
- SD-WAN policy-based routing
- traffic engineering
- performance monitoring
- network security protocols
- TLS
- PKI
- Zero Trust models
- SolarWinds
- Splunk
- JNCIA
- JNCIP
- RADIUS
- SNMP
- NTP

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