Network Engineer (2nd Shift) - Military veterans preferred

Description

Exciting Opportunity: Become a Network Engineer at Leidos!

Ready to elevate your career with a role that makes a real impact? The Leidos National Security Sector is seeking a full-time Network Engineer to join our 2nd shift operations at the National Maritime Intelligence Center in Suitland, MD. If you're motivated, skilled, and looking to grow, this role is your chance to shine.

This position offers a 2nd shift schedule (4 PM - 12 AM, Monday through Friday), with the flexibility to adapt to operational needs. Enjoy a role that ensures work-life balance while contributing to mission-critical network engineering and administration operations.

What Makes This Role Stand Out?

Join a dynamic team of forward-thinking, innovative professionals dedicated to leveraging cutting-edge network engineering capabilities. You'll contribute to operations watch support that spans the National Maritime Intelligence Center and locations worldwide. Along with a competitive salary and benefits, this role provides a vibrant work environment where your expertise is valued and your growth is supported.

Your Impactful Role:

• Collaborate with a watch team to coordinate responses to network outages, working alongside Voice, Video, IP, Transport, OSP Construction, and local Operations Engineers to ensure swift resolution.
• Maintain daily operations by monitoring, identifying, and resolving performance issues across servers, systems, and applications, ensuring peak performance and availability.
• Troubleshoot, isolate, and resolve network outages while providing prompt event notifications to internal and external stakeholders.
• Diagnose and resolve network performance escalations, taking ownership of customer issues and seeing them through to resolution.
• Work cross-functionally on departmental and special projects that showcase your expertise.

What You'll Bring:

• An active DoD Top Secret/SCI security clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree with 4+ years of experience in Network Administration. Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Active IAT Level II DoD Approved 8570 Baseline Certification (e.g., Security+ CE)
• CISCO Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification - must obtain within 90 days from date of hire.
• Proficiency with TACACs+, data packet capture, traffic analysis, and vulnerability analysis and remediation.
• Proficient in configuring CISCO devices using: EIGRP, BGP, SNMP, TCP/IP, OSPF, Spanning Tree, ARP, dot1Q, VLANs, VPN, GRE, IPSEC, subnetting, NAT, access control lists, and various other routing and networking protocols.  
• Experience with data packet capture, traffic analysis, and vulnerability analysis & remediation.
• Exceptional customer service skills – demonstrated ability to work with an incredibly wide variety of teams, internal and external customers, internal and external service providers.
• Must have a thorough knowledge of the OSI model and how it pertains to various transmission protocols, and multi-protocol routing including VRF, VPN, EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, VPLS, and VP

Why Leidos?

This isn’t just a job—it’s a career-defining opportunity to work at the heart of critical intelligence operations. At Leidos, you’ll grow professionally, develop cutting-edge skills, and work alongside some of the best minds in the industry. Make a real impact with us while enjoying the stability, growth, and support of a globally recognized leader in national security.

Take the Next Step If you're ready to bring your skills to the table and make a difference, we want to hear from you. Join Leidos and let’s redefine what’s possible—together.

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Original Posting:

For 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:

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.