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Leidos is a major partner on the contract and will provide a substantial portion of the cybersecurity workforce supporting the Defense Human Resources Activity (DHRA) and DMDC.\nThe Network Engineer will support external network-connectivity compliance and the technical approval processes required to connect DHRA systems, applications, and services across Department of Defense network boundaries. This position will review network implementations, firewall requirements, ports, protocols, services, and connection requests to ensure technical solutions comply with Department of Defense and Defense Information Systems Agency requirements.\nWork Locations:\nMark Center, Alexandria, Virginia \nDepartment of Defense Center - Monterey Bay, Seaside, California \nClearance: Active Secret security clearance required at time of consideration. U.S. Citizen is a must.\nMission Environment\nDMDC supports the Defense Human Resources Activity within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (OUSD(P&R)) and maintains the Department of Defense’s largest and most comprehensive central repository of personnel, manpower, casualty, pay, entitlement, personnel security, identity, readiness, training, and related data. The DHRA Information Technology (IT) environment includes approximately 15,000 network and endpoint devices supporting more than 600 Government-Off-The-Shelf (GOTS) applications and approximately 100 Risk Management Framework (RMF) authorization boundaries managed through the Enterprise Mission Assurance Support Service (eMASS). External connectivity within this environment is governed through Department of Defense registration, approval, and compliance processes. DHRA processes approximately 500 Ports, Protocols, and Services Management (PPSM) requests annually and maintains a significant inventory of approved enterprise whitelist entries. The Network Engineer will help ensure required connectivity is implemented without creating unauthorized or unmanaged pathways across Department of Defense network boundaries.\nPrimary Responsibilities:\nSupport external network-connectivity compliance and associated network-boundary registration and approval processes. \nReview technical network implementations to ensure compliance with Department of Defense connectivity and cybersecurity requirements. \nReview firewall requests and evaluate required ports, protocols, application services, communication paths, and network boundaries. \nPrepare, review, submit, and track Ports, Protocols, and Services Management requests for registration and technical implementation. \nValidate PPSM requests for completeness, technical accuracy, and compliance before submission. \nIdentify the ports, protocols, application services, and network boundaries associated with proposed communications. \nReview proposed connectivity against applicable Department of Defense requirements and the Connection Approval List (CAL). \nIdentify incomplete, inaccurate, or noncompliant requests and work with requestors and technical stakeholders to resolve deficiencies. \nSupport exception processing, including Component Local Service Assessment (CLSA) actions when required. \nMaintain the accuracy and compliance of existing PPSM registrations and support auditing of registered connectivity against actual technical implementations. \nReview technical firewall implementations associated with approved connectivity requests. \nSupport the Connection Approval Process (CAP) and Systems/Network Approval Process (SNAP), including data collection, submission, deficiency resolution, renewals, exceptions, and status tracking. \nEnsure connectivity approval requests meet applicable Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) requirements. \nSupport enterprise whitelisting processes, including creation, review, registration, implementation, maintenance, and compliance of whitelist entries. \nWork with system and product owners to maintain accurate connectivity and whitelist registrations. \nDevelop and maintain tactics, techniques, and procedures and other process documentation for connectivity registration, approval, compliance, auditing, exception processing, and renewals. \nMaintain accurate inventories and status information for connectivity requests, registrations, and approvals. \nTranslate complex network requirements into technical design and implementation plans. \nAnalyze and resolve network-interoperability issues affecting enterprise connectivity. \nProvide senior technical guidance for complex network initiatives and connectivity requirements. \nCoordinate with network teams, cybersecurity personnel, system owners, application teams, Government stakeholders, and external organizations to resolve connectivity and compliance issues. \nBasic Qualifications:\nBS and 4 - 8 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 2 - 6 years of prior relevant experience. Specific experience, education and training may be considered in lieu of degree.\n4 or more years of experience designing and planning network systems. \nDemonstrated experience with enterprise network engineering, network architecture, or network-connectivity design. \nExperience reviewing and implementing firewall, port, protocol, service, and network-boundary requirements. \nExperience translating application or system connectivity requirements into network design and implementation requirements. \nExperience troubleshooting complex network-connectivity and interoperability issues. \nExperience supporting network change, approval, registration, or compliance processes. \nStrong understanding of network protocols, routing, firewalls, network segmentation, and enterprise connectivity. \nAbility to analyze network designs and technical implementations for compliance with established requirements. \nExperience developing technical documentation, procedures, network diagrams, implementation plans, or engineering recommendations. \nAbility to coordinate complex technical requirements across system owners, network teams, cybersecurity organizations, and Government stakeholders. \nU.S. Citizenship required. \nActive Secret security clearance required. \nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience supporting Department of Defense enterprise network environments. \nExperience with Ports, Protocols, and Services Management processes and registry submissions. \nExperience with Department of Defense network-boundary approval and external-connectivity compliance requirements. \nExperience reviewing firewall implementation requests and validating ports, protocols, services, and communication paths. \nExperience supporting Connection Approval Process or Systems/Network Approval Process activities. \nExperience with Defense Information Systems Agency connectivity guidance and approval processes. \nExperience supporting enterprise whitelisting and maintaining connectivity-registration inventories. \nExperience auditing approved connectivity against implemented network configurations. \nExperience supporting network connectivity associated with Risk Management Framework authorization boundaries. \nFamiliarity with DHRA, DMDC, or comparable Department of Defense enterprise environments. \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:\nOctober 9, 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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