# Network Defense Design Engineer Senior

Leidos is looking to hire a Network Defense Design Engineer Senior in Quantico, VA to join our SMIT program. The qualified candidate will assist the Government Lead with daily network defense engineering activities, including the design, implementation, integration, administration, maintenance, and optimization of enterprise cybersecurity systems and infrastructure. The Network Defense Design Engineer Senior will also engineer and integrate cybersecurity architectures, security controls, and defensive mechanisms into enterprise information systems to meet Department of Defense (DoD), Navy, and Marine Corps security requirements. The Leidos team delivers the core backbone of the Service, Management, Integration and Transport (SMIT) program, including cybersecurity services, network operations, service desk, and data transport. Leidos will support network modernization efforts to provide Sailors, Marines, and the civilian workforce with the tools they need to be more efficient at increasing naval capabilities and further empowering the Navy Marine Corps team to compete and win. Primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Design, develop, and implement enterprise network

- **Id**: 4327065
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/leidos-network-defense-design-engineer-senior>
- **Role**: Networking
- **Role family**: Networking
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Quantico, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T01:46:27Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 11846
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: National Security, C4ISR, Information Security, IT Consulting & Digital Transformation

## Company

- **Id**: 7791
- **Name**: Leidos
- **Domain**: leidos.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/leidos>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 77
- **Open postings**: 339
- **Ghost share**: 0.006
- **Stale share**: 0.912
- **Repost share**: 0.012
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 27
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 107900
- **Max**: 195050
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 195050

## Technologies

- **Active Directory** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **ITIL** — Optional: no
- **LDAP** — Optional: no
- **PKI** — Optional: no
- **Service Desk** — Optional: no
- **SIEM** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-15T01:46:27Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 50 · green card filings: 24; Filings 12m: 50

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T03:55:18Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 195050
- **Is top pay**: yes

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