Leidos - Rockville, 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 candidate must be local to the DC Metro area for onsite work and must be a US Citizen or US Person with the ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance level 5, which requires candidates to have been in the United States for the current three consecutive years. 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 network operations team ensures a secure and highly available network backbone, wireless, and data center services in accordance with existing customer service level agreements (SLAs). The selected candidate will provide technical leadership and mentoring to junior staff, direct Tier 3 support for incident response, perform problem management and incident prevention activities, and coordinate with vendors and service providers. In this role, the engineer will maintain virtual local area networks (VLANs), wide area networks (WANs), data center networks, wireless networks, and industrial control communications systems in accordance with SLAs. They will provide Cisco switching and routing expertise in support of NIH data center networks and applications, evaluate the potential impacts of new network solutions on the NIH and Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) networks, and configure and optimize network monitoring tools to provide high-fidelity alerts and visualizations. The engineer will also measure, monitor, and plan network performance, usage, availability, capacity, and risks for network change requests, while providing strategic and tactical direction for NIH CIT Network Services enhancements and projects.