Senior Aruba Wireless & Cloud-Network Architect

Leidos Inc; Odenton (MD); On-site; USD 116,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos Inc seeks a Principal Network Engineer to design, implement, and modernize a large-scale wireless network across distributed sites. The role emphasizes Aruba wireless infrastructure, Aruba Central migration, and secure, scalable services.

Collaborate with cloud, cybersecurity, identity management, and monitoring teams to deliver resilient wireless access and standardized configurations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of relevant experience.
• Master's degree with 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Extensive hands-on experience engineering Aruba wireless infrastructure.
• Experience with Aruba Central including configuration management.
• Strong knowledge of 802.11 standards, RF fundamentals, VLANs, routing, and switching.
• Experience with wireless controller redundancy, high availability, and network resiliency.
• Experience integrating with DNS, DHCP, NTP, and monitoring platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, and implement migration of Aruba wireless controllers to centralized cloud-hosted infrastructure.
• Deploy Aruba Central for centralized management, configuration standardization, monitoring, and visibility.
• Develop migration strategies, procedures, validation plans, and rollback processes.
• Coordinate cloud infrastructure integration including connectivity, routing, and security.
• Design and implement Layer 2/3 redundancy to improve wireless availability.
• Configure controller failover, preemption, and recovery.
• Implement WPA3, WIDS/WIPS, and NAC integration.
• Integrate Aruba Central with ScienceLogic SL1 for monitoring.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams.
• Develop engineering standards and deployment playbooks.
• Document architecture, configurations, test plans, and operation procedures.

Job description

Leidos Inc seeks a Principal Network Engineer to design, implement, and modernize a large-scale wireless network across distributed sites. The role emphasizes Aruba wireless infrastructure, Aruba Central migration, and secure, scalable services.

Collaborate with cloud, cybersecurity, identity management, and monitoring teams to deliver resilient wireless access and standardized configurations.