Sr. Command & Telemetry (C&T) Engineer

Leidos Inc; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 92,300 - 166,850; Full time

Job summary

Leidos Inc is seeking a Sr. Command & Telemetry Network Engineer in Chantilly, Virginia. This role involves solution design for government network infrastructures and requires extensive experience in networking.

Responsibilities include providing technical support across network solutions, planning and implementing communications systems, and developing customer technology solutions. Candidates must have a TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance and significant experience in networking and security protocols.

Qualifications

• 16 years of experience combining work history and education.
• Compliance with DoD 8140 Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level 2 required.
• Professional experience troubleshooting network faults.

Responsibilities

• Support technical assessment and delivery of network solutions.
• Provide technical direction for network infrastructure activities.
• Generate installation plans and documentation for deployment.

Skills

OSI layers 1, 2, and 3 troubleshooting

Cisco routers

Juniper routers

MultProtocol Label Switch (MPLS)

Command and Telemetry solutions deployment

Education

Doctorate with 8 years of experience or equivalent

Job description

Overview

The Digital Modernization Sector at Leidos has an opening for a Sr. Command & Telemetry (C&T) Network Engineer. This technical role 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 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.

Responsibilities

• 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).
• Generates installation plans, procedures, templates, and training documentation to 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 Requirements

• Required Clearance: TS/SCI with Polygraph
• 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, associate’s and 14 years or HS diploma and 16 years.
• Must be compliant with DoD 8140 Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level 2.
• Professional experience with OSI layers 1, 2, and 3 to troubleshoot various network faults and performance issues.
• Hands‑on experience with Cisco and/or Juniper routers.
• Extensive experience troubleshooting MultProtocol Label Switch (MPLS) across the WAN.
• Hands‑on experience deploying Command and Telemetry solutions.

Pay and Benefits

Pay Range: $92,300.00 – $166,850.00.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

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.