**Description** Leidos National Security Sector is looking for a full-time Network Engineer for 1st shift at our customer site at the National Maritime Intelligence Center in Suitland, MD. 1st Shift: 8am - 4pm; Shifts may occasionally change due to operational need. Become a member of the team leading the way with network administration and engineering support for elements within the National Maritime Intelligence Center and locations around the world as part of the operations watch. As a Network professional, you’ll be working with a team of forward thinking, innovative, and highly motivated Network Engineers dedicated to implementing and leveraging the latest capabilities of Network Engineering and Administration support. In addition to a competitive salary and benefits, the position offers a schedule that promotes a healthy work/life balance while providing 24x5 (Monday through Friday) support to our customer. **Primary Responsibilities:** + Work as part of a watch team providing support and coordinating responses on network outages with Voice, Video, IP, Transport, OSP Construction, and local Operations Engineers to ensure quick and thorough resolution Monday through Friday. + Accountable for maintaining daily operations, monitoring, problem identification/resolution of server/systems, applications, operating systems and analyzing activity and performance ensuring system/application is providing optimum performance and availability. + Assists with network outage isolation and troubleshooting and perform event notifications to internal and external customers. + Identifies, diagnoses, and resolves problems affecting network performance escalations. + Triages and works tickets to find solutions that correct customer network issues and faults. + Performs other duties as assigned, including departmental and cross-functional projects. **Security Clearance Required:** + Current DoD Top Secret/SCI security clearance. **Basic Qualifications:** + Bachelor’s degree with 4+ years of practical Network Administration experience in LAN technologies; additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree + Active IAT Level II DoD Approved 8570 Baseline Certification (e.g., Security+ CE) + CISCO Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification - must obtain within 90 days from date of hire. + Proficiency with TACACs+, data packet capture, traffic analysis, and vulnerability analysis and remediation. + Proficient in configuring CISCO devices using: EIGRP, BGP, SNMP, TCP/IP, OSPF, Spanning Tree, ARP, dot1Q, VLANs, VPN, GRE, IPSEC, subnetting, NAT, access control lists, and various other routing and networking protocols. + Experience with data packet capture, traffic analysis, and vulnerability analysis & remediation. + Exceptional customer service skills – demonstrated ability to work with an incredibly wide variety of teams, internal and external customers, internal and external service providers. + Must have a thorough knowledge of the OSI model and how it pertains to various transmission protocols, and multi-protocol routing including VRF, VPN, EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, VPLS, and VPRN. NITESONI EIO2024 **Original Posting Date:** 2025-02-07 While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above. **Pay Range:** Pay Range $72,150.00 - $130,425.00 The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law. REQNUMBER: R-00153077 All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.