Leidos - Takoma Park, MD
posted 2 months ago
Leidos Health Mission Solutions is seeking a Senior Network Engineer specializing in network operations, contingent on contract award, for a large network services opportunity supporting the National Institute of Health (NIH) in the Bethesda, MD area. The Senior Network Engineer will be a vital member of an operations team responsible for maintaining and supporting a large-scale enterprise network primarily based on Cisco technology. This role is crucial in ensuring a secure and highly available network backbone, wireless, and data center services, all in accordance with existing customer service level agreements (SLAs). The candidate must be local to the DC Metro area for onsite work and must be a US Citizen or US Person capable of obtaining a Public Trust Clearance level 5, which requires candidates to have been in the United States for the last three consecutive years. In this position, the Senior Network Engineer will provide technical leadership and mentoring to junior staff, direct Tier 3 support for incident response, and engage in problem management and incident prevention activities. The role also involves coordinating with vendors and service providers to ensure optimal network performance and reliability. The engineer will maintain virtual local area networks (VLANs), wide area networks (WANs), data center networks, wireless networks, and industrial control communications systems, ensuring compliance with SLAs. Additionally, the engineer will evaluate the potential impacts of new network solutions on the NIH and Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) networks, configuring and optimizing network monitoring tools to provide high-fidelity alerts and visualizations to the network monitoring team. The Senior Network Engineer will also be responsible for measuring, monitoring, and planning network performance, usage, availability, capacity, and risks for network change requests. This role requires providing strategic and tactical direction for NIH CIT Network Services enhancements and projects, as well as developing standard operating procedures and mentoring the operations team. Collaboration with program architecture and security teams is essential to ensure policy and security compliance for change requests and new capabilities, supporting the customer in transitioning from traditional to software-defined enterprise networking.