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About Leidos
Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations.
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As a Tier III Senior Network Engineer on the Joint Communications Support Element team, you will provide critical engineering support and technical leadership to ensure scalable C4 capabilities for various government agencies. You will be responsible for designing, testing, and implementing complex network solutions while conducting assessments on emerging technologies and performing cybersecurity mitigations to meet Risk Management Framework requirements. Your daily work involves providing high-level routing and switching support across LAN, WAN, CAN, SAN, and data center environments. To succeed, you must possess expertise in IGP, EGP, MPLS, VRF, and NFV/Service Chaining technologies. The role requires a CCNP Enterprise certification and a DoD 8140 IAT Level II certification. You will translate stakeholder requirements into functional designs, ensuring all systems adhere to strict DOD standards and best commercial practices while optimizing end-to-end network performance.
What does a Network Engineer earn?
Median $145000 from 109 postings across 27 companies.
LAN
WAN
CAN
Telecommunications
Firewall
Load Balancing
Traffic Shaping
VoIP
GRE
IPSec
IP Encryption
MoIP
NAT
Data Capture
ISO 9000
Information Assurance
Security Engineering