Network Engineer

Leidos currently has an opening for a Senior Network Engineer to support a Department of War customer in the Washington DC metro area. This is a great opportunity to work with an elite team of network professionals to maintain a secure environment for critical systems. Bring your own experience and work with our team to teach and learn while building, maintaining, and supporting our customer environments.

Primary Responsibilities

• Integrate compute, storage, security, and cloud access into network architectures.
• Work directly with customers to refine and finalize designs.
• Mentor junior staff in skill development in network engineering and design.
• Collaborate and work with team members to assist in skill development and team growth.
• Work with program management, developing solutions for future customer engagements, including meeting with customers to understand requirements and develop solutions.
• Troubleshoot complex network issues and assist with the development of solutions.
• Perform incident analysis to determine possible causes and potential fix. Document Root Cause and recommendations to prevent future occurrences.
• Design and implement firewall policies to secure the organization’s network and protect against external and internal threats.
• Design, maintain, update, and document VPN connectivity to partners and outside vendors.
• Troubleshoot escalated network and security issues ranging from hardware to operating systems/applications/permissions/user profile related issues.
• Monitor firewall logs and alerts to identify and resolve security incidents.
• Work in hybrid multi-location operations team administering existing production network.
• Assist in creating automation and process improvements toward greater efficiency, reduced incidents, and proactive systems management.
• Support tickets and manage incidents, service requests, and problems through their full life-cycle.
• Provide health and performance reporting and take appropriate actions based on trends in data.
• Document status updates and communicate to necessary parties.
• Document troubleshooting steps and knowledge articles for team members and other teams.

• Bachelor’s degree and 8 years’ experience or an associate’s degree and 10 years’ experience
• Experienced with operational and security hardening configuration for firewall solutions
• Hands-on experience with Palo Alto Panorama for centralized management of PANOS firewalls
• Demonstrated experience with networking and switching protocols and infrastructure services
• Familiar with ticketing systems and the value of good documentation
• A who can obtain a DoW Secret clearance
• Cisco Certified CCNA
• Obtain a baseline 8140 certification [(IAT Level II) CCNA-Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP]

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in IT Related Field and 10+ years of experience
• Palo Alto Next-Gen Firewall
• Cisco Certified CCNP
• DoD secret clearance
• Security+ CE certification

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