Command & Telemetry Network Engineer

Leidos; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 131,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Health and Wellness programs

Income Protection

Paid Leave

Retirement

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Command & Telemetry (C&T) Network Engineer in Virginia to deliver design and engineering for government network infrastructures, including WAN/LAN/CAN, with a TS/SCI clearance and IAT Level 2 compliance.

The role involves technical leadership across lifecycle stages, creating installation plans and training materials, and providing expert advice on network solutions for multi-classification environments.

Qualifications

• Active TS SCI/CI clearance.
• 16 years of combined work history and education (e.g., Doctorate + 8 yrs, Bachelor + 12 yrs).
• DoD 8140 Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level 2 compliance.

Responsibilities

• Regularly supports the technical assessment and delivery of a specific technical network solution to the customer.
• 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.
• Generate installation plans, procedures, templates, and training documentation for deployment of C&T solutions.
• Performs transitions from existing to new network design solutions.
• Develops customer technology solutions using various industry products and technologies.

Skills

Network engineering

Technical leadership

Documentation

Education

Doctorate + 8 years

Master's + 10 years

Bachelor's + 12 years

HS diploma + 16 years

Tools

Routers

Firewalls

DNS

IPAM

NTP

Job description

Description

The Digital Modernization Sector at Leidos has an opening for a Command & Telemetry (C&T) Network Engineer. The C&T Network Engineer is 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 network systems infrastructure activities, including planning, designing, and implementing communications and network infrastructure requirements for buildings and systems (Routers, Firewalls, DNS, IPAM, NTP, Command and Telemetry).
• Generate installation plans, procedures, templates, and training documentation, which will be used by other service team members to efficiently deploy C&T 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.

Basic Qualifications

• Required Clearance: TS SCI/CI
• Candidate must have 16 years of experience that can be a combination of work history and education. This equates to a Doctorate and 8 years, master’s and 10 years, bachelor’s and 12 years, associates and 14 years or HS diploma and 16 years.
• Must be compliant with DoD 8140 Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level 2.

Clearance Required

• All candidates must possess an active TS/SCI with CI Poly at time of consideration.

Pay Range

Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers.

More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

• Competitive compensation
• Health and Wellness programs
• Income Protection
• Paid Leave
• Retirement

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.