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Meade, MD. The DES program is a highly demanding mission and requires expert technical and professional management to support DISA's enterprise Information Technology (IT) services. You will be supporting a large and complex IT discovery, design, and migration effort aimed at consolidating Department of Defense (DOD) IT services into single service provider model. This role will include discovery, analysis, design, and network migration activities necessary to move a host of DoD agencies into the modernized DoDNetenvironment.\nPrimary Responsibilities:\nPlan and design secure network solutions to consolidateconnectivity services under an enterprise service.\n\nPartner with key stakeholders and technical experts to perform legacy environment discovery, assessing current capabilities, configurations, and unique requirements to develop a design and architecture leveragingapproved design patterns.\n\nDesign secure wide area connectivity inclusive of underlay, overlay, and COI transport design that supports performance, quality of service, security, and mission requirements.\n\nProvide secure access solutions leveragingwired and wireless technologies, integrating standards, use cases/scenarios, and develop associated implementation and transition plans.\n\nIntegrate capacity planning and scaling of network and security stack environments into the overall design of solutions.\n\nCollect, investigate, and identifynetwork optimization strategies and techniques to meet capacity and performance standards.\n\nIdentifylegacy service paths (i.e.dataflow, firewallrulesets, and ACLs) and develop strategies and designs for the to-be enterprise service capability to meet requirements while balancing security, sustainability, and maintainability.\n\nSupport development of IP addressing schemes across IPv4 and IPv6 networks.\n\nWork with information assurance teams to ensure compliance toDoD standards to assistwith providing accreditation artifacts.\n\nCLEARANCE REQUIREMENT: Must hold an active Secret security clearance prior to start and be able to obtain a Top Secret. (US Citizenship required)\nBasic Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree and 4+ years of prior relevant experience. Specific experience, educationand training may be considered in lieu of degree.\n\nActive DoD Secret clearance\n\nRequire network certification which shall meet or exceed a CCNA (comparable vender certification accepted upon review).\n\nRequire active DoD IAT Level II (i.e.Security+) certification or equivalent prior to start.\n\nExperience documenting logical or physical designs using drawing tools (e.g.Visio, Powerpoint, Gliffy, Cameo, MagicDraw) to depict systems, subsystems, interfaces, components, and communications of I/T applications and infrastructure\n\nExperienced and comfortable with conducting technical troubleshooting to resolve issues.\n\nExperience conducting site surveys or analyzing data obtained from site surveys.\n\nExperience creating or executing a migration plan to move circuits, network traffic, services, applications, or data between environments or to a commercial cloud provider. Alternatively, experience planning or executing a technology refresh or lifecycle refresh of an existing I/T system.\n\nHeavily experienced in upgrading and LCR of network devices.\n\nMust have broad exposure to common I/T infrastructure networking in the areas of LAN, WAN, TCP/UDP, IPSec, VPN, Proxies, Routing(L2/L3), and Firewalls.\n\nMust have experience in working with two or more of the following vender network technologies: Cisco, Juniper, F5, Aruba, Palo Alto, Dell, Brocade, and Fortinet.\n\nDemonstrated experience in designing and implementing medium to large network infrastructure and producing corresponding technical documentation.\n\nMust be able to work as part of a team to troubleshoot and resolve complex network issues.\n\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills. This shall include drafting SOPs and technical documentation.\n\nRequires ability to communicate with executive leadership (internally or client) regardingmatters of significant importantto the organization/project.\n\nMust be able to present designs and plans to technical leadership personnel and boards for approvals.\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\nCertified Cisco Network Professional (CCNP) or equivalent.\n\nDemonstrated experience in one or more of the following enterprise network management tools such as PaloAltoPanorama, SolarWinds, Cisco Prime, Cisco DNA, What’s Up Gold, or Junos Space.\n\nExperience in designing and implementing VTC solutions.\n\nExperience with ScienceLogic SL1 and/or SolarWinds.\n\nHands on experience with SD-WAN.\n\nDemonstrate expertisein design and improvement of complex and geographically enterprise networks.\n\nExpert knowledge of DoD security requirements for network infrastructure.\n\nDemonstrate experience in system hardening of network infrastructure to include DoD STIG implementation.\n\nIf you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.\nOriginal Posting:\nSeptember 10, 2026For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.\nPay Range:\nPay Range $73,450.00 - $132,775.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. 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