Cellular Configuration and Test Engineer

TheDecision Advantage Business Area at Leidos has an opening for an experiencedCellular Configuration and Test Engineerin Northern Virginia in support of the Department of the Air Force (DAF) Battle Network and supporting this mission we support the Department of the Air Force (DAF) to field andoperatethe customers Digital Cellular Configuration and Test Engineerwill be involved inday-to-dayactivities and strategic long-term maturation of complex systems. Details are as follows:

Primary Responsibilities:

• TheTestteamwithin the Digital Infrastructure Network Integration Lab (DI-NIL)willbe responsible formaintainingthe DI-NIL architecture and services. There are levels of support needed throughout which willincludemultipleunderlyingtransport services to include cellular services.Overall management ofunderlying cellular services will be.

• The DI-NIL support effort will also include working with customers to ensure the needed environment is configured properly andtransport services have been configured properlyto allowoptimization and prioritization ofstakeholdertrafficwithin the environment.

• Full documentation of builds and configurationsutilizedwithin the environment are mandatory as well as process flow documentation to ensure all required tasks are documented and repeatable.

• Additionalduties will include backing up other personnel in support of the DI-NIL effort which is focused on Verification and Validation for the Digital Infrastructure Network.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree and 8 years of prior relevant experience ormastersdegreewith 6 years of prior relevant experienceor demonstratable experience as a Subject Matter Expert.

• Mustpossessa minimum of a Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance.

• Demonstrable knowledge ofCellularconcepts and applying these conceptsacross multiple locations and multiple vendors.

• Demonstrated experience in designand designreview participation and providing customer centric input.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills to collaborate with customer representatives domain experts and other systems engineers in the development oftransport mechanisms forcomplex DoD systems.

• Demonstrated ability toparticipatein cross-functional planning coordination and task execution situations involving the full spectrum of system integration activities.

• Ability to work well with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience.

• Advanced understanding ofcellular networking.

• Demonstrated ability to brief technical and non-technical customers.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience with Agile program execution and using agile tools (e.g.Jira and Confluence).

• Prior experience working on ABMS or JADC2 initiatives.

• Mid-level understanding of government systems security testing (ACAS/Nessus) and remediation ability to discuss security issues and concerns.

• Prior experience designing and deployingnetworks.

• Prior experience withSAFeAgile implementation.

• Prior experience support Department of the Air Force programs.

• Previousexperience working on complex multi-domain systems.

• Experience with design and validation of Cloud and Edge Computing and Network.

• Demonstrable knowledgeoftest automation and test result analysis.

• Demonstrable experience in network topologies tovalidatefunctionality performance stability and scalability of features and products.

• Provenexpertisein creating test methodologies and writing test specifications.

• Experience in Integration test verification and validation