**Description** SAIC, a leading provider of systems engineering & integration, systems development & deployment, intelligence analysis and targeting, and training solutions for the Intelligence Community, is seeking creative and dedicated professionals to fulfill their career goals and objectives while delivering mission excellence on programs of national importance. SAIC is seeking a highly motivated Network Engineer to join our team and propel the organization forward in supporting a large IT Enterprise contract located near Annapolis Junction, MD. Contract award is expected in September 2025 with a start in October 2025. Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph required to start. A Network Engineer designs solutions, integrates, configures, deploys, tests, and provides ongoing maintenance for numerous types of network devices, interfaces and methodologies, ensuring network security, performance, and availability. Tasks include system performance optimization and dataflow management, connecting front-end and back-end components, developing network and mission architectures to meet mission requirements, leading dynamic installation projects, and performing network accreditations. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: + Implement specific network solutions to support server requirements to include load-balancing, VPN’s, firewall contexts, VoIP, GRE Tunneling, IPSec, IP Encryption, MoIP, and NAT. + Integrate hardware and software to satisfy ISO 9000 requirements and other DoD/IC regulations. + Resolve complex network problems, operate network analyzers, WAN test equipment and network simulators. + Design modules representing traditional circuit switched networks and develop algorithms using networking and/or telecommunications technologies and systems. **Qualifications** Required Qualifications: + Active TS/SCI with Polygraph. + Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Assurance, Information Security Systems Engineering, or a related discipline and ten (10) years of relevant professional experience providing Network Engineering support and training or a Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline and twelve (12) years of relevant professional experience providing Network Engineering support. Fifteen (15) years of relevant experience providing Network Engineering support may be substituted for a Bachelor’s degree or Twenty (20) years for a Master’s degree. + IAT Level III baseline certification as defined by DoD 8570.01-M. + Cisco certification in at least one of the following: CCNA, CCNP, CCIE. Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors. REQNUMBER: 2506164 SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability