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Begin your journey of a flourishing and meaningful career, share your resume with us today!\nThe Ops Watch team is a 24/7/365 manned function, this position is Day hours 6:00am - 2:30pm Sunday - Thursday.\nSummary\nThe Operations Watch Specialist delivers vital technical oversight and uninterrupted, around-the clock monitoring across both unclassified (NIPRNet) and classified (SIPRNet) networks. Operating as a critical team member, 24/7/365 manned watch team, the specialist is assigned to the high-tempo swing shift (0600-1430, Sunday - Thursday) at Joint Base Andrews. This role is essential to maintaining zero-fail communications and operational readiness for senior leaders across Headquarters Air Force (HAF), the Air Force District of Washington (AFDW), the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Military Command Center (NMCC).\nPrimary Responsibilities:\nResponsible for monitoring and managing the status of the Wide Area\nNetwork, receiving support calls for connectivity issues, performing incident management and service restoration activities using a suite of automation tools and working with long haul carriers.\nProvides proactive problem management and customer reporting.\nService issues that cannot be resolved by Tiers 1 and 2 support are escalated to internal Tier 3 support for advanced troubleshooting and resolution.\nActing as a primary line of defense, the specialist performs advanced log analysis to support proactive threat-hunting and incident remediation.\nResponsible for triaging critical network alerts, managing system outages before they disrupt end-users, and coordinating immediate incident response with the Communications Focal Point (CFP), key mission partners, and local technicians.\nAdditionally, the specialist maintains total enterprise situational awareness by utilizing and continuously improving network monitoring suites to ensure maximum environmental uptime.\n\nBasic Qualifications:\nBachelor's degree with a minimum of 2+ years of related experience.\nAdditional years of relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree.\nCurrently possess a DoD Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain a Top Secret in the future.\nCurrently possess a minimum DOD_8570 IAT2 certification for example a CompTIA Sec+ certification.\n 2+ years' experience with switches and routers.\nExperience with Cisco Prime or other network monitoring systems.\nExperience using system monitoring tools such as SolarWinds and SCOM to monitor enterprise system status across multiple technologies and platforms.\nExperience writing strong technical support/triage documentation.\nExperience reviewing system events and performing triage to determine impact and urgency.\nExperience troubleshooting enterprise IT incidents and recommending approaches to resolve them.\nAbility to work in a live 24x7 operation.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nCCENT or CCNA Certifications.\nExperience tuning system monitoring tools such as SolarWinds and SCOM.\nExperience working with ITSM tools, especially Remedy.\nExperience working in a military command or operations center, particularly an Air Force Communications Focal Point (CFP).\nExperience working at the Pentagon, Joint Base Andrews (JBA), and Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling (JBAB)- Knowledge of Air Force, Pentagon, and/or AFNCR.\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:\nNovember 3, 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 $59,150.00 - $106,925.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. 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