Network Engineer Mid
Job Location:
Washington DC, WA - USA
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Job Summary
The Network Engineer Mid provides day-to-day engineering and operational support for SEC enterprise data services under the ISS contract. This role uses a broad toolset to design manage and maintain all aspects of data networking with core emphasis on routing switching and load balancing. The position supports secure reliable service delivery and rapid restoration of network services in alignment with SEC OIT operational objectives. The engineer contributes to continuous improvement of network performance availability and operational quality.
* Must reside within a 23 hour driving distance of Washington DC to support occasional onsite network maintenance (once a week minimum)*
Primary Responsibilities
Network Operations and Administration
- Manage daily operations of enterprise data networks including routing switching load balancing and core connectivity services.
- Perform day-to-day activities required to manage data services across production environments.
- Execute moves adds and changes for network services while minimizing user impact and operational disruption.
- Coordinate with service owners and technical teams to maintain network availability capacity and performance.
Monitoring Incident Response and Service Performance
- Monitor network health using approved enterprise tools; analyze device status traffic trends and service indicators.
- Perform incident detection triage escalation and resolution activities to restore services rapidly and reduce recurrence.
- Support operational activities including bridge calls status communications and shift handoff reporting as required.
- Contribute to service and operational reporting by tracking performance outage trends and corrective actions.
Engineering Optimization and Change Execution
- Design and implement network configuration changes and enhancements to improve reliability scalability and performance.
- Optimize routing paths switching behavior and load-balancing policies to reduce latency packet loss and service bottlenecks.
- Validate network changes through testing and documented change-control processes before production deployment.
- Partner with vendors and internal stakeholders on circuit telecom and managed network service issues and escalations.
Documentation Compliance and Continuous Improvement
- Maintain accurate network documentation including topology diagrams configuration baselines SOPs and operational artifacts.
- Ensure network operations and changes align with SEC security compliance and governance requirements.
- Support root-cause analysis and problem management efforts to prevent repeat incidents.
- Identify and implement process improvements that increase operational efficiency and service quality.
Required Qualifications
Citizenship/Work Authorization: Must meet contract requirements.
Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain SEC Public Trust (or higher if required).
Education: Bachelors degree in a relevant field is required.
Experience:
- 4 years of related experience managing enterprise data networks and data services.
- Advanced hands-on experience with routing switching and load balancing in production environments.
- Experience performing day-to-day network operations incident response and service restoration using structured support processes.
Technical Skills:
- Staffing-matrix core skills: advanced routing switching and load balancing for enterprise data networks.
- Ability to design manage and maintain data networking services using a broad operational toolset.
- Contract-context expansion (PWS): operational support for LAN/WAN/WLAN/VPN environments.
- Contract-context expansion (PWS): working knowledge of monitoring performance analysis documentation and change-control practices.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience supporting federal agency or other regulated enterprise network environments.
- Contract-context expansion (PWS): experience with Cisco network and unified communications platforms (e.g. Cisco UCM/Unity/Webex integrations).
- Contract-context expansion (PWS): hands-on experience building operational dashboards and alerts for network SLA/performance management.
- Contract-context expansion (PWS): familiarity with zero-trust network controls secure configuration baselines and audit-ready operations.
- Contract-context expansion (PWS): ability to script or automate recurring network operational tasks and reporting.
- CCNA or CCNP Enterprise
- ITIL 4 Foundation
- CompTIA Security
WORK ENVIRONMENT / OTHER
Operational Support: May require participation in on-call or surge support activities depending on operational needs.
Location: Hybrid
Travel: As required per contract direction.
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Original Posting:
June 9 2026For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
Pay Range $59150.00 - $106925.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand 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.
Required Experience:
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