Senior Network Engineer - Integration Services

About the role

Leidos is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Network Engineer to work onsite at Ford Island, Hawaii. The role leads a small team of engineers, provides project engineering support and briefs customers on project status. It is a subject-matter expert position on IP and optical networks (WAN and LAN, DEV/TEST and Production) supporting mission-critical operations on the Defense Information Systems Network (DISN) for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).

Key responsibilities

• Manage a small team of engineers and support customer briefings.
• Provide engineering and technical expertise on telecommunications networks and information systems within the DISN.
• Research, analyze and develop reports on network systems engineering, topology and route planning, configuration management, migration strategies and procedures.
• Collaborate with DISN government engineers, project managers and task managers on coordination, implementation and testing of new projects.
• Evaluate system network requirements and make technical recommendations.
• Establish remote management connectivity, oversee performance verification testing (BER or burn-in tests) and configure alarm and system profiles and OSI layers.
• Support installation testing and acceptance (IT&A) of network components via GUI/CLI interfaces, and support project deployments.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of related experience, or a Master's with 10+ years; specific experience, education and training may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Active Secret security clearance.
• Current DoD 8140 certification.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, strong customer relations and leadership, with experience presenting to senior personnel.
• Experience remotely configuring networking or transport devices.

Required skills

• Familiarity with SONET, TDM, DWDM, IP and MPLS networks.
• Expertise in one or more of: IP routing, QoS, traffic engineering, DNS, TDM switching, optical transport, crypto, network appliances.
• Preferred: Juniper IOS, Cisco IOS, EMS tools, Linux administration, RADIUS, SNMP, NTP, TLS, PKI, VISIO, PMP, and knowledge of HAIPE (KG-175D) and physical network infrastructure.

Pay range: $116,350 - $210,325.