Network Engineer - WAN - 2nd Shift
The Defense Sector at Leidos is seeking a cleared Wide Area Network (WAN) Engineer (2nd Shift)
Roles and Responsibilities
- Maintain BGP routing architecture across the enterprise WAN, including peering relationships, autonomous system boundaries, and route policy enforcement.
- Execute circuit installations, migrations, bandwidth upgrades, and site cutovers with documented rollback plans and minimal mission impact.
- Develop and maintain routing policy standards, IP address and ASN allocation plans, and authoritative network documentation including logical and physical topology diagrams.
- Apply DISA STIGs to routing and transport devices, remediate IAVA findings, and support RMF assessment and authorization artifacts and POA&M closure.
- Coordinate with DISA, NOC/SOC teams, transport providers, and site network personnel to schedule and validate maintenance actions and outage restoration.
- Monitor WAN health and capacity using SolarWinds, NetFlow, and SNMP-based tooling; produce trend analysis and capacity recommendations for government leadership.
- Manage Type 1 encryptor configuration and key management coordination in support of secure enclave connectivity.
Required Qualifications
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Clearance
US Citizen with at least an active Top Secret clearance and the ability to obtain a SCI prior to your start date.
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Education
Certifications
DoD 8570/8140 IAT Level II certification (Security+ CE or equivalent) plus an active CCNP Enterprise, JNCIP-SP, or equivalent routing certification preferred.
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Experience
2+ years of hands-on enterprise WAN engineering and operations experience, with demonstrated ownership of multi-site routed transport in a DoD environment.
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BGP Expertise
- Configuration and troubleshooting of eBGP and iBGP, including route reflectors, confederations, and full-mesh peering designs.
- Ability to tune BGP routing policy using route maps, prefix lists, AS-path filters, communities, local preference, MED, and AS-path prepending.
- Experience establishing and sustaining BGP peering with DISA/DISN service delivery nodes and commercial transport providers.
- Working knowledge of BGP convergence tuning, dampening, BFD, and route leak/hijack mitigation.
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Routing & Transport
Proficiency with OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS L2/L3 VPNs, VRFs, QoS policy for voice and mission traffic, and IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack operations.
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Platforms
Hands-on administration of Cisco (IOS-XE/IOS-XR/NX-OS) and Juniper (Junos) routing platforms in an operational production network.
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Encryption & Circuits
Experience with Type 1 inline network encryptors (TACLANE/KG-175, HAIPE) and with DISA circuit lifecycle actions (TSR/TSO, DISA Direct/SNAP).
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Compliance
Working knowledge of DISA STIGs, RMF, IAVA remediation, and change control under DoD configuration management processes.
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Troubleshooting
Demonstrated packet-level analysis skill using Wireshark/tcpdump, SPAN/TAP captures, and NetFlow to isolate faults across provider and government segments.
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Shift Flexibility
Preferred Qualifications
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Advanced Certification
CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure or Service Provider, JNCIE-SP, or DoD 8570/8140 IAT Level III (CASP+ or CISSP).
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Segment Routing & MPLS-TE
Experience with segment routing, MPLS traffic engineering, or EVPN in a large-scale transport core.
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SD-WAN
Hands-on experience with Cisco SD-WAN or Juniper SDWAN or comparable overlay transport in a DoD/DoW deployment.
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Automation
Proficiency with Python, Ansible, for configuration deployment, compliance auditing, and network state validation.
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DoD Enterprise Services
Familiarity with JRSS, DODIN operations, and DoD boundary/CDS architectures.
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Optical Transport
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Pay Range
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