Principal Network Engineer Odenton, MD

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Leidos is seeking a Principal Network Engineer to join our Defense Enclave Services (DES) team at Ft. Meade MD.

This is an exciting opportunity to use your technical experience and leadership to successfully execute Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) migration to the Department of Defenses Fourth Estate (DoD 4th Estate) agencies into a Common Use information technology (IT) infrastructure. The Leidos team will deliver Network Infrastructure services that will support the transition infrastructure network operations and management engineering and innovation cybersecurity services and technical refresh for a Single Service Provider (SSP) network environment with all 4th Estate users.

CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT: Must hold an active Secret security clearance prior to start and be able to obtain a Top Secret. (US Citizenship required)

**The anticipated salary range is $160000 to $180000**

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide Subject Matter Expertise in network design integration test security and implementation of Network Services for DISA DoDNet.
• Provide expert knowledge of network engineering and operations large scale enterprise network solution implementation and transition to Network Operations as well as test and evaluation activities.
• Participate in technical development of staff.
• Propose new solutions to Network Domain Architects to define and/or continuously improve:
• Direct STIG compliant configuration baselines versioning and compliance tracking
• Evaluate the effectiveness of Automation and best practice insertion opportunities
• Oversee development of SOPs/TTPs
• Continuous Service Improvements (CSI)
• System performance tuning and enhancements
• Create and maintain Engineering Implementation Plans (EIP)
• Evaluate network bandwidth needs and recommend measures to meet those requirements.
• Provide expert knowledge of defense-in-depth standards Network and Security architecture network topology IT device integrity and common security elements.
• Plan and execute network upgrades and maintenance activities with the appropriate Delivery Operations Managers NOC Lead Release Management team and other key stakeholders.
• Serve as the senior Tier III escalation support engineer for Incident Management activities.
• Develop and maintain technical documents analyses and reports.
• Actively participate in Root Cause Analysis for Problem Management activities.
• Able to work in a dynamic fast-paced and mission-focused environment.

• Strongly prefer a CCIE Certification (Enterprise or Routing/Switching) prior to start.
• ITIL v3/v4 certification/training.
• Agile certifications or applicable experience.

• BS degree and 12 15 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10 13 years of prior relevant experience. May possess a Doctorate in technical domain.
• Advanced/Professional level vendor certifications (Cisco Juniper Aruba Palo Alto).
• 10 years experience engineering and troubleshooting networks including extensive routing and switching experience such as MPLS VPNs routing protocols i.e. BGP OSPF IS-IS switching protocols i.e. Spanning Tree Protocol VLANs LLDP VoIP Multicast protocols and emerging network technologies.
• In depth knowledge of IP network/subnet addressing.
• Experience presenting to senior customer management customer stakeholders and company management.
• Experience executing circuit cutovers in the DISA environment.
• Familiarity with the ITIL framework.
• Ability to travel up to 25% including OCONUS potential travel.
• Willingness to work or be called in to work during off-hours to meet customer mission support requirements

• Strongly prefer a CCIE Certification (Enterprise or Routing/Switching) prior to start.
• Masters Degree with 15 years of experience
• Previous work experience providing engineering and operational services on DISA supported networks.
• Experience with Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager (CPPM) identity management solution.
• Demonstrated NET/SEC DevOps experience.
• ITIL v3/v4 certification/training.
• Agile certifications or applicable experience.

• Pay Range $116350.00 - $210325.00
• 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.