Senior Network Engineer

SAIC; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC seeks a highly experienced Network Engineer to support the US Space Force and Space Systems Command in Colorado Springs, CO. You will perform operational maintenance and sustainment of ground-based radar networks and participate in planning, development, and delivery of PARCS and UEWR radar network modifications in response to change requests and deficiency reports.

You will maintain and upgrade networks, including servers, routers, switches, firewalls, and telecom equipment, while ensuring

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of related experience.
• Active Secret clearance or ability to obtain.
• Experience with network maintenance and security products.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and upgrade networks including servers, routers, switches, firewalls.
• Ensure network integrity and compliance with policies.
• Develop engineering ideas and deliver final products.
• Design and integrate networks across project lifecycles.
• Handle implementation and maintenance of network devices and telecom gear.

Skills

Network engineering

Network maintenance

Security+ / Network+ certs

Virtualization

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Security+ / Network+ certifications

Tools

Routers

Switches

Firewalls

Remote access systems

Telecom equipment

Job description

Minimum Clearance Required None
Job ID 2618359
Location Colorado Springs, CO, US
Date Posted 2026-10-23
Category Information Technology
Subcategory Network Engineer
Schedule Full-Time
Shift Day Job
Travel Yes - 10% of the time
Minimum Clearance Required None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain Secret
Potential for Remote Work ORA_HYBRID
DescriptionSAIC seeks a highly experienced and energetic Network Engineer to support the US Space Force, Space Systems Command, in performing operational maintenance and sustainment of ground-based radars critical to US and Allied strategic missile surveillance, warning, defense, and space surveillance missions in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In support of the government customer, the SAIC Program Manager, and the Chief Engineer, the Network Engineer is responsible for responsive and coherent planning, development and delivery of PARCS and UEWR radar network maintenance and modifications in response to change requests and deficiency reports.

Job Duties

• Provides expert knowledge for maintenance and upgrade of networks including servers, routers, switches, firewalls, remote access systems, and telecom equipment.
• Provides expert knowledge for maintaining network integrity and connectivity while ensuring compliance with policies and maintains system backup and recovery capability.
• Develop advanced engineering ideas and guides their development into a final product.
• Perform highly advanced network/systems design, development, and integration from the start of a project life cycle to the end.
• Provides and applies advanced engineering to highly complex infrastructures including installing, configuring, testing, and maintaining network devices, telecom equipment, radio equipment, operating systems, application software, and system management tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and five (5) or more years’ relevant experience and Security+, Network+, and/or higher-level certifications. Experience will be accepted in lieu of degree.
• Ability to obtain a Secret Clearance
• Experience with a broad range of system types custom developed HW/SW, COTS/GOTS HW/SW, and specialty engineering of exotic material/limited supply items.
• Experience with implementing and sustaining distributed systems, virtual operating system environments, and virtual/augmented reality technologies.
• Experience translating operational requirements into system requirements; and system requirements into technical requirements/performance standards.

Desired

• Experience sustaining PARCS, or other Strategic Warning and Surveillance radar systems such as PAVE PAWS and UEWR.
• Knowledge of the Integrated Tactical Warning and Attack Assessment mission and associated enterprise.
• Experience maintaining national security mission networks.
• Managing large-scale Agile or SecDevOps teams/projects, to include support to cost estimating, baseline and risk management, schedule development, performance monitoring and reporting.

Target salary range $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.