Network Engineer Subject Matter Expert (SME)
Company: Leidos
Location: Reston
Posted on: April 17, 2024
Job Description:
Description Join us at Leidos, where your most important work is
ahead! At Leidos, everything we do is built on our commitment to do
the right thing for our customers, our employees, and our
communities. Our mission is to make the world safer, healthier, and
more efficient through information technology, engineering, and
science. Leidos employees enjoy great benefits such as paid time
off (PTO), flexible schedules, discounted stock purchase plans,
career growth, unlimited education and training support, parental
paid leave and more! You will have the opportunity to work under
the best leadership in the industry at all levels, where supporting
their employees and what they do is what matters.This position
requires a current and active TS/SCI with Polygraph security
clearance. We do not have the ability to sponsor candidates for
clearance processing.Our National Security Sector is seeking
multiple Network Engineers for task orders which are pending award
within an established and funded enterprise IT program. Our goal is
to identify qualified candidates immediately so we can fast-track
offers and onboarding as soon as the positions are added to the
contract. Positions will work at client sites in northern Virginia,
remote and hybrid work is not available.We are seeking subject
matter expert Network Engineers who fall into one of three subject
matter expert (SME) categories:
- Network/system engineering of complex networks
- Cloud network engineering of complex networks
- Network engineering with digital forensicsFor network/system
engineering of complex networks positions, our client designs,
builds, and maintains all of the client's production acquired
mission infrastructure and associated data storage and test
networks which support ongoing requirements. The client requires
support specializing in network and cloud engineering of complex
networks. The work may be performed independently or within a team
environment. The client requires polished skills in network
architecture and cloud services while managing a moderate workload
of aforementioned architecture and cloud service documentation.
Work will include engineering and designing updates to current
virtual and physical network and future innovation builds. The
selected candidates will create new updates and features to improve
performance with current network infrastructure; create technical
documentation in support of design network infrastructure; and
provide O&M and support for the client's network
infrastructure.For cloud network engineering of complex networks
positions, the client requires network/system engineering support
to maintain, design and deploy both on-prem and cloud
architectures. The work will require collaboration between multiple
stakeholders and will require management of multiple systems. The
Network Engineer will support network and Hyper converge
infrastructure (HCI) deployment; support system accreditation; and
provide support for designing, engineering, implementing, and
maintaining on-prem enterprise quality mission systems, networks,
and applications for cyber-related investigations. They will
analyze customer requirements and provide technical expertise on
on-prem cluster computing techniques and technologies; engineer,
implement, and maintain a fault tolerant, highly redundant mission
network; and technical oversight of a project solution, including
requirement interpretation and allocation of requirements to
technical components. The Network Engineer will support processes
to implement requirements; follow cyber security best practices in
the development and implementation of the system(s) designs that
provide the best mission performance at optimum cost in both
initial outlays and O&M; and define internal and external
customer IT infrastructure architecture needs and then provide
solution options to meet those needs to include, capacity planning,
systems configuration, tuning, monitoring, backups, hardware and
software installations. They will work independently with little
supervision and should be flexible to work and support IT Operation
needs as requested and create functional design specifications,
architectures, and render support with other project
deliverables.For network engineering with digital forensics
positions, the client requires support specializing in network
engineering and digital forensics to assist with continuous
monitoring of IT systems that are required to sustain client
accreditation of these systems; coordinate engineering projects
including performing technical risk assessment, de-conflict
implementations, and resolve technical questions or conflicts; and
deploy and maintain network systems. The Team will diagnose network
issues and follow troubleshooting procedures for restoring the
network to optimal performance levels and gather performance and
utilization metrics from infrastructure components and proactively
inform the client when defined thresholds are met. They will guide
networking engineering efforts in the hardware, software, and
virtual infrastructure domain; maintain up to date network topology
drawings; and perform moderately complex network designs and
upgrades using existing technology with limited guidance. The team
will perform Tier-3 engineering and support for virtualization
infrastructure, consisting of virtual servers, virtual desktops,
and automation solutions and plan network configurations for
integration into the network, using knowledge of the performance
characteristics of the systems being added to the network and the
specifications for network interfaces to insure effective
integration and optimal network performance. They will prepare
technical proposals for presentation to engineering review boards
to make changes or add new technologies to the network and provide
system documentation to the system security managers to support
A&A efforts. The Team will review user requests for upgrades or
additions to the network to assess impact on network performance;
shepherd and perform engineering efforts in the areas of Windows
and Linux servers, workstations, storage, and virtualization;
support network life cycle stages such as design, configure, test,
deploy, and maintain; and utilize network analysis tools to
identify performance problems in the network. They will diagnose
and resolve technical problems with overseas populations; direct or
perform the installation of IT infrastructure as well as the
installation and configuration of operating systems and
applications; and inspect and test all equipment prior to
deployment to respective overseas locations. The team will also
make recommendations on the best deployment strategy, considering
the client's business priorities for any application or tool;
provide end-to-end support of field network and forensic
capabilities; and provide real-time and 24/7 on-call support to
worldwide users. They will provide Standard Operating Procedures
(SOPs) and other integrated documentation to support the success of
field users and the program; provide technical support to various
client developed and COTS forensic application developers ensuring
the integrity of data flow and enhance business efficiency and
insights; and research and recommend systems, equipment and
technologies to improve and enhance existing systems. Additionally,
the team will use application deployment guides and information
from application developers to determine the most efficient and
performant IT infrastructure components to deploy a particular
application.Basic Qualifications
- Active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance.
- Experience with at least 10 of the following skills:
- Demonstrated experiences maintaining and operating networks
devices.
- Demonstrated experience troubleshooting physical networks.
- Demonstrated experiences designing and deploying physical or
virtual networks devices (routers, switches, load balancers,
firewalls, etc.).
- Demonstrated experience building and implementation of AWS
environment.
- Demonstrated experience with virtual and physical
firewalls.
- Demonstrated experiences implementing, and maintaining
applications and ports-based firewalls.
- Demonstrated experience with multiple Hypervisors including
HyperV, ESX, and VirtualBox.
- Demonstrated experience developing and implementing Hyper
converge infrastructure (HCI).
- Demonstrated experience with multiple operating systems
including Windows and Linux.
- Demonstrated experience with designing, developing, deploying,
and maintaining complex, multi-segmented secure network
infrastructures, virtual and physical.
- Demonstrated experience with network hardware designing and
engineering.
- Demonstrated experience with Cloud Services.
- Demonstrated experience with creating technical documentation
in support of network infrastructure.
- Demonstrated experience analyzing existing systems and
identifying necessary corrective actions and improvements.
- Demonstrated experience building, maintaining and
troubleshooting gold image hard drives.
- Demonstrated experience coordinating and performing security
testing.
- Demonstrated experience creating network topology
diagrams.
- Demonstrated experience designing, configuring and
troubleshooting Routing and Switching systems (Cisco expertise
required).
- Demonstrated experience implementing L2 and L3 VPN across an
MPLS network.
- Demonstrated experience installing, maintaining, and
configuring Aspera Enterprise Server and Aspera P2P.
- Demonstrated experience performing configuration and management
of Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) and vRealize Suite.
- Demonstrated experience performing configuration and management
of VMware vCenter and VMware NSX-T.
- Demonstrated experience using forensic software including
Cellebrite, XRY, WinHex, FTK, and Autopsy.
- Demonstrated experience with Gateway Redundancy Protocols to
include HSRP and VRRP.
- Demonstrated experience with network IP address
management.
- Demonstrated experience with Routing Protocols to include OSPF,
EIGRP, and BGP.
- Demonstrated experience with vulnerability scanning tools.
- Demonstrated experience working in Local Area Network (LAN)
environments and Wide Area Network (WAN) environments.
- Demonstrated experience working with TCP IP protocol suite, IP
subnets and masking, and routing protocols.Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience explaining protocols, technical
procedures and processes clearly and accurately to both technical
and non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrated experience as an Amazon AWS Solution
Architect.
- Demonstrated experience as a Google Cloud Architect.
- Demonstrated experience with Ansible.
- Demonstrated experience with Python.
- Demonstrated experience with client's security requirements to
include data protection.
- Demonstrated experience with client's systems accreditation
process and procedures.Original Posting Date:2024-03-06While
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
$122,200.00 - $220,900.00The 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.
Keywords: Leidos, Chantilly , Network Engineer Subject Matter Expert (SME), Engineering , Reston, Virginia
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