Network Engineer

Leidos

4.1

Fort Meade, MD

Why you should apply for a job to Leidos:

  • 4.1/5 in overall job satisfaction

  • 4.3/5 in supportive management

  • 68% say women are treated fairly and equally to men

  • 84% would recommend this company to other women

  • 84% say the CEO supports gender diversity

  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • Our Women’s Network is one of nine employee resources groups that provides support for onboarding, networking & professional development.

  • Leidos offers programs to help employees prepare for over 95 industry-standard professional and technical certifications.

  • Leidos offers a voluntary well–being benefit program to help support employees on their personal wellness journey and earn rewards.

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    Position summary

    Description

    Join a long-term prime program with new positions and strong leadership. The Cyber and SIGINT Solutions team is looking for you!

    Leidos provides great benefits, flexible schedules and the opportunity to grow your career.

    Daily responsibilities:

    • Provide input to the design of the organizations network and mission architecture
    • Reports any known or suspected COMSEC incidents immediately
    • Perform configuration, test, deployment and maintenance to all network equipment
    • Validate new and existing dataflow and data formats
    • Manage assigned tasks and provide guidance to junior Network Engineers
    • Oversee the support to all network equipment
    • Configure and optimize the network to connect various front-end and back-end components
    • Minimize network latency and maximize data throughput through design analysis and network performance monitoring tools
    • Develops algorithms used in modules or incorporated into models associated with the research and development of technologies and systems
    • Ensures that all material received is inspected for evidence of tampering and, if any is found, submits report of suspected physical incident immediately
    • Configure and maintain organizations network diagrams and accreditations
    • Integrate hardware and software to satisfy ISO 9000 requirements and other DoD/IC regulations
    • Design, integrate, test and deploy solutions to established network issues
    • Optimize end-to-end system performance and dataflow management
    • Coordinate with appropriate dataflow organizations and end-customer recipients, follow-on data repositories and tasking organizations and mitigate potential adverse impacts on system-wide dataflow
    • Implement specific network solutions to support server requirements to include load balancing, VPN’s, firewall contexts, Traffic Shaping Voice over IP (VOIP), GRE Tunneling, IP Security (IPSec), IP Encryption, Media over IP (MoIP) and network address translation (NAT).
    • Coordinate with system engineering and integrate, configure, deploy, test and provide ongoing maintenance for numerous types of network devices, interfaces and methodologies
    • Gather needed data to specify system/component performance and interface requirements

    Clearance Required: Active TS/SCI with Polygraph. 

    • U.S Citizenship required

    Qualifications

    • Eight (8) years of relevant professional experience providing Network Engineering
    • Bachelor’s degree from accredited college or university in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management or related discipline.
    • Masters degree in any of the above disciplines may be substituted for two(2) years of experience.
    • Five (5) additional years of experience of relevant experience may be substituted for Bachelor’s degree.

    Required Certifications:

    • IAT Level II baseline certification as defined by DoD 8570.01
    • Cisco

    Pay Range:

    Pay Range - -

    The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

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    What are Leidos perks and benefits

    Backup child care

    Elder care

    Unconscious bias training

    Networking

    Diversity recruiting

    Remote work policy

    Part time policy

    Paid maternity

    Paid paternity

    Paid adoptive

    About the company

    Industry: Technology: B2B Tech Services

    Leidos is a Fortune 500® information technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and health markets. The company’s 40,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $12.30 billion for the fiscal year ended January 1, 2021. 

    Why you should apply for a job to Leidos:

  • 4.1/5 in overall job satisfaction

  • 4.3/5 in supportive management

  • 68% say women are treated fairly and equally to men

  • 84% would recommend this company to other women

  • 84% say the CEO supports gender diversity

  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • Our Women’s Network is one of nine employee resources groups that provides support for onboarding, networking & professional development.

  • Leidos offers programs to help employees prepare for over 95 industry-standard professional and technical certifications.

  • Leidos offers a voluntary well–being benefit program to help support employees on their personal wellness journey and earn rewards.