Network Administrator

Job Description

Description

The Federal Civilian IT Sector at Leidos currently has an opening for a Network Engineer to work in our Huntsville, Alabama office at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience helping the AEGIS contract mission. In this mission we provide NASA state of the art design, engineering, configuration, testing and documentation of network architectures and configurations including routers, switches, network management tools and other information technology products in a multi-vendor, multi-protocol environment. A successful candidate will serve as a Network Engineer III in the AEGIS Wide Area Network Engineering Group.

Primary Responsibilities

Job responsibilities will include:

• Designing, engineering, configuration, testing and documentation of network architectures and configurations including routers, switches, network management tools and other information technology products in a multi-vendor, multi-protocol environment.
• The candidate will develop cost estimates and detailed designs for corporate network routed data and corporate custom routed data layer 3 services as well as dedicated voice and data services.
• Candidate must be capable of supporting project teams in design and implementation of enterprise WAN services and campus or institutional networks.
• Other duties will include participation in design reviews and requirements analysis.

Basic Qualifications

• Requires Bachelors degree and 8 – 12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6 – 10 years of prior relevant experience.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Clearance.
• The candidate must have excellent oral and written skills and be able to present technical information in formal presentations to both internal and external customers.
• The candidate must have a concrete working knowledge of routed data protocols and hardware platforms.
• Candidate must have a working knowledge also of Juniper and Cisco routers and switches and platforms.

• CCNA and/or JNCIA highly desired.

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For 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.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit

Pay and Benefits

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