Network Engineer III

R-00163125

Description

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Unleash your potential at Leidos,  where we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customer’s success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business.

If this sounds like an environment where you can thrive, keep reading!

The Digital Modernization Sector brings together our digital transformation and IT programs, allowing us to better serve our customers through scale and repeatability.

  - https://www.leidos.com/capabilities/digital-modernization

We are seeking a talented and energetic candidate to work with the best and brightest employees around the country in creating innovative all-encompassing solutions for our programs.  You will work in a fast-paced and diverse environment, enjoy flexible work arrangements, and will have a management team that encourages your career development and growth. In this role, you will gain many intangible skills, such as time and task management, critical thinking and problem solving, the ability to communicate complicated problems in a concise manner, as well as solve complex problems using available tools.

Responsibilities:

• Work directly and indirectly with NASA customers, Technicians, Network Engineers and/or Network Architects to execute network design changes or modifications to the of the NASA network infrastructure, as well as identify, analyze, and resolve issues for customer impacting events that maybe escalated
  
• Be able to read, interpret and provide network designs for various types of presentations both technical nature and of the leadership informative nature
  
• Engage in decision making regarding appropriate network changes to maintain configuration control and minimize configuration size using knowledge of network sub-netting and best practices per industry standards
  
• Use Standard Operating Procedure’s (SOP), Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTP), and Work Instruction’s (WI) to complete Change task via Command Line Interface (CLI) on device
  
• If no documentation is available, use best practices and independent decision making to complete task of the implementation
  
• Perform service validation to assess if deployed changes have caused impacts to customer traffic using provided expectations of traffic behavior, lessons learned, and customer reporting
  
• Use network decision making skills for configurations such as detailed step by step instructions within the network switch operating system for new network devices that are replacing legacy network equipment that needs to be refreshed or replaced from time to time as a part of your design
  
• Provide assessment and design recommendations to resolve certain network device security vulnerabilities
  
• Provide wireless local area network (WLAN) device analysis and new access point designs to support expansion or reduce constraints as a measure to increase network capacity and/or bandwidth
  
• Perform periodic review of the capacity and operating functionality of network devices using critical thinking to analyze and design providing a solution for the constraints
  
• Provide input and guidance along with independent decision making to Government customer on best practice for the operation and maintenance of the network infrastructure creating documents & presentations for future reference material
  
• Determine a solution to reported problems for network outages and degradations experienced through customer engagement and knowledge gained through past experience’s, engineering skills, and sometimes using independent decision making
  

Required Experiences :

• Proficient in Cisco and Juniper configuration and troubleshooting
  
• Experience analyzing switching and/or routing, IP addressing and sub-netting
  
• Good working knowledge of WAN technologies and protocols
  
• Experience analyzing, troubleshooting, and configuring IP networks
  
• Knowledge of ports and protocols being used in IP networks
  
• Has the ability to obtain and keep a minimum of a Public Trust security clearance.
  

Desired Experience:

• Experience with Cisco 9800 Wireless LAN Controllers (WLCs)
  
• Good working knowledge of Juniper and Cisco hardware platforms
  
• Experience with tools such as ISE, Splunk and NetBrain
  
• IPv6 configuration, troubleshooting, and design experience
  
• Security certification would be a plus
  
• VPN and Firewall knowledge would be a plus
  
• Certifications with major network system vendors such as Cisco are a strong plus. CCNA or CCNP
  
• Excellent project, technical, interpersonal, presentation and problem management skills
  
• Extensive network integration experience for a variety of network protocol standards
  
• Ability to communicate orally, and in writing, detailed technical information on troubleshooting and implementation efforts in strong documentation skills
  

Desired Certifications / Training:

Current holders of either a CCNA or CCNP

Salary range - $25/hr - $29/hr.
Original Posting: July 23, 2025
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: Pay Range $39,650.00 - $71,675.00

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.