Command & Telemetry (C&T) Engineer

Leidos; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 133,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a C&T Network Engineer to design and implement government network infrastructures across WANs, LANs, and CANs. The role involves providing technical direction and hands-on engineering for KRATOS and ARKA platforms, plus Linux admin basics.

Expect collaboration across teams and instructional documentation to support deployments. The candidate will engage in system planning, configuration, and optimization for high-security networks, ensuring compliance with DoD standards

Qualifications

• Must meet DoD 8140 IAT Level 2 requirements.
• Clearance: TS/SCI CI is required.
• Experience described as a combination of work history and education (see the education items).

Responsibilities

• Support technical assessment and delivery of network solutions to the customer.
• Collaborate across lifecycle stages in a high-performance team.
• Provide direction and engineering expertise for Command and Telemetry solutions.
• Work with Routers, Switches, BGP, VRF, VLAN, NTP in multi-class networks.
• Create installation plans, procedures, and training documentation.
• Transition from existing to new network designs and advise on system management.

Skills

Network engineering

BGP

VRF

VLAN

NTP

RS422

RS533

Linux

IAT Level 2 compliance

Education

Doctorate + 3 years

Master's + 4 years

Bachelor's + 6 years

Associate + 8 years

HS diploma + 10 years

Tools

KRATOS T500MX-XC

ARKA P&D

Job description

Leidos has an opening forThe Command &Telemetry (C&T) Network Engineer.The C&T Network Engineeris a technical role which includes solution and design engineering functions for government passive and active network infrastructures. The candidate will be responsible for C&T Network Engineering and supporting other engineering teams for all network design and engineering activities. These engineering activities will be conducted on the government’s wide area networks (WAN), the local area networks (LAN), Campus Area Networks (CAN), Access and Control Interfaces (CI), Command and Telemetry and other networks that support multiple classification levels of communications.

The job duties of the Command &Telemetry (C&T) Engineer are as follows:

• Regularly supports the technical assessment and delivery of a specific technical network solution to the customer.

• Provides a key support role in operating as a conducive high-performance team across all lifecycle stages.

• Provides technical direction and engineering expertise for Command and Telemetry solutions using KRATOS T500MX-XC or ARKA P&DB’s (Packet & Data Buffers). A basic sysadmin understanding of Linux Operating system would also be acceptable.

• An understanding of low speed RS422 serial communications to include RS533 electrical specifications and cabling.

• Provides technical direction and engineering expertise for network systems infrastructure activities, including planning, designing, and implementing communications and network infrastructure requirements for buildings and systems (Routers, Switches, BGP, VRF, VLAN, NTP).

• Generate installationplans, procedures, templates, and training documentation, which will be used by other service team members to efficiently deploy Command and Telemetry solutions.

• Performs/Conducts the transition/transformation from existing to new network design solutions.

• Provides technical consulting and advice to others on efforts, solution design, system management, tuning and modification of solutions.

• Collects and determines data from appropriate sources to assist in determining customer needs and requirements.

• Responds to requests for technical information from customers.

• Develops customer technology solutions using various industry products and technologies.

Requirements

Required Clearance: TS/SCI CI

• Candidate must have 10 years of experience that can be a combination of work history and education. This equates to a Doctorate and 3 years, master’s and 4 years, bachelor’s and 6 years, associates and 8 years or HS diploma and 10 years.

Required qualifications include the following:

• Must be compliant with DoD 8140 Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level 2.

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Pay Range:

Pay Range $73,450.00 - $132,775.00

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.