Senior Aruba Wireless & NAC Architect

Leidos

Odenton (MD)

On-site

USD 116,000 - 210,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Principal Network Engineer to modernize an enterprise wireless environment across distributed sites. The role focuses on migrating Aruba controllers to Aruba Central, implementing centralized management, and improving resiliency with secure access.

The candidate will lead architecture, testing, migration, and operations transitions while collaborating with cloud, cybersecurity, and identity management teams to deliver scalable wireless infrastructure.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of relevant experience or Master’s with 10+ years.
Significant hands-on experience engineering, implementing, and supporting enterprise Aruba wireless infrastructure.
Experience with Aruba Central and centralized management platforms.
Strong knowledge of enterprise wireless networking, 802.11 standards, VLANs, routing, and switching.
Experience with wireless controller redundancy, high availability, failover, and network resiliency.
Experience integrating wireless infrastructure with enterprise networking services (DNS, DHCP, NTP, routing, monitoring).

Responsibilities

Design, engineer, and implement migration of Aruba wireless controllers to centralized cloud-hosted infrastructure.
Deploy and configure Aruba Central for centralized management, configuration standardization, monitoring, and visibility.
Develop migration strategies, procedures, validation plans, and rollback processes.
Coordinate cloud integration including connectivity, routing, security, and availability.
Support architecture, implementation, integration, testing, migration, and transition to operations.
Provide technical direction and mentoring to network engineering personnel.