Job Description

Salary: $116,350 - 210,325 per year Requirements:

• We require a bachelors degree with 12+ years of relevant experience, or a masters degree with 10+ years of experience; comparable education, training, and experience may be accepted in place of a degree.
• We need substantial experience leading or supervising technical teams of network engineers, administrators, analysts, or implementation staff in complex enterprise environments.
• We require hands-on experience guiding network engineering initiatives from planning through deployment, including requirements analysis, dependency management, risk mitigation, contingency planning, execution oversight, validation, and operational transition.
• We need experience assessing enterprise network architectures and building improvement plans across LAN, WAN, WLAN, routing, switching, firewalls, VPN, proxies, security stacks, software-defined networking, and cloud-connected environments.
• We require experience with Network Segmentation, Comply-to-Connect, or similar secure connectivity efforts, including data-flow analysis, firewall and ACL review, routing adjustments, security-zone design, stakeholder coordination, and implementation planning.
• We need strong organizational ability to manage details, balance competing priorities, meet aggressive schedules, and deliver complex technical work with a high level of accountability.
• We require experience documenting logical and physical network designs, implementation plans, risks, dependencies, decision points, and technical recommendations using tools such as Visio, PowerPoint, Cameo, or similar applications.
• We need experience working with two or more of the following technologies: Cisco, Aruba, Palo Alto, Dell, Infoblox, and Brocade.
• We require excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present architecture recommendations, implementation plans, risks, dependencies, and status updates to technical leaders, stakeholders, and approval boards.
• We require a current IAT Level II or higher certification, such as Security+ or CISSP.
• We require an active DoD Secret clearance.
• We need the ability to commute to Ft. Meade, MD two days per week.

• We will rely on this person to plan, design, and implement enterprise network segmentation and Comply-to-Connect initiatives, including data-flow mapping, firewall rule and ACL review, routing and security policy coordination, cutover sequencing, validation, and stakeholder sign-off.
• We expect them to lead strategic engineering efforts from concept through implementation, including architecture review, requirements analysis, dependency identification, design coordination, planning, execution, validation, and transition to operations.
• We will have them develop and maintain implementation plans, schedules, cutover approaches, contingency plans, rollback procedures, validation steps, stakeholder communications, and change documentation for mission-critical network changes.
• We expect them to provide technical leadership, mentoring, and daily direction to network engineers, administrators, and analysts while organizing priorities, maintaining accountability, and driving delivery against aggressive timelines.
• We will have them provide clear technical updates and recommendations to government stakeholders.
• We expect them to evaluate current network architecture, identify gaps and improvement opportunities, estimate effort, assess implementation risk, and create practical engineering plans to enhance enterprise capabilities.
• We will have them collaborate with architecture, cybersecurity, operations, project management, and technical subject matter experts to remove blockers, manage dependencies, reduce delivery risk, and execute network projects end to end.
• We expect them to continuously improve engineering processes, documentation standards, implementation playbooks, and delivery models to speed up execution, reduce rework, strengthen operational handoff, and lower sustainment effort.

• Aruba
• Cloud
• Cisco
• Firewall
• Flow
• LAN
• Network
• Security
• VPN
• WLAN
• Confluence
• Support
• JIRA
• Windows

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We are Leidos, an industry and technology leader delivering smarter, more efficient digital and mission solutions for government and commercial customers. This role sits on our Defense Enclave Services team, supporting a major digital modernization program for DISA and Department of Defense Fourth Estate agencies. It is a hands-on principal network engineering position focused on enterprise network transformation, security, and reliability, with on-site commuting to Ft. Meade, MD two days per week. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, including health and wellness programs, income protection, paid leave, and retirement. The listed pay range is $116,350 to $210,325, and we are committed to equal employment opportunity.

last updated 25 week of 2026

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