Contract Network Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Description

The Network Engineer Mid provides day-to-day engineering and operational support for SEC enterprise data services under the ISS contract. This role uses a broad toolset to design, manage, and maintain all aspects of data networking, with core emphasis on routing, switching, and load balancing. The position supports secure, reliable service delivery and rapid restoration of network services in alignment with SEC OIT operational objectives. The engineer contributes to continuous improvement of network performance, availability, and operational quality.

* Must reside within a 2–3 hour driving distance of Washington, DC to support occasional onsite network maintenance (once a week minimum)*

Primary Responsibilities

Network Operations and Administration 

- Manage daily operations of enterprise data networks, including routing, switching, load balancing, and core connectivity services. 

- Perform day-to-day activities required to manage data services across production environments. 

- Execute moves, adds, and changes for network services while minimizing user impact and operational disruption. 

- Coordinate with service owners and technical teams to maintain network availability, capacity, and performance.

Monitoring, Incident Response, and Service Performance 

- Monitor network health using approved enterprise tools; analyze device status, traffic trends, and service indicators. 

- Perform incident detection, triage, escalation, and resolution activities to restore services rapidly and reduce recurrence. 

- Support operational activities, including bridge calls, status communications, and shift handoff reporting as required. 

- Contribute to service and operational reporting by tracking performance, outage trends, and corrective actions.

Engineering, Optimization, and Change Execution 

- Design and implement network configuration changes and enhancements to improve reliability, scalability, and performance. 

- Optimize routing paths, switching behavior, and load-balancing policies to reduce latency, packet loss, and service bottlenecks. 

- Validate network changes through testing and documented change-control processes before production deployment. 

- Partner with vendors and internal stakeholders on circuit, telecom, and managed network service issues and escalations.

Documentation, Compliance, and Continuous Improvement 

- Maintain accurate network documentation, including topology diagrams, configuration baselines, SOPs, and operational artifacts. 

- Ensure network operations and changes align with SEC security, compliance, and governance requirements. 

- Support root-cause analysis and problem management efforts to prevent repeat incidents. 

- Identify and implement process improvements that increase operational efficiency and service quality.

Required Qualifications

Citizenship/Work Authorization: Must meet contract requirements. 

Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain SEC Public Trust (or higher if required). 

Education: Bachelor's degree in a relevant field is required.

Experience: 

- 4+ years of related experience managing enterprise data networks and data services. 

- Advanced hands-on experience with routing, switching, and load balancing in production environments. 

- Experience performing day-to-day network operations, incident response, and service restoration using structured support processes.

Technical Skills: 

- Staffing-matrix core skills: advanced routing, switching, and load balancing for enterprise data networks. 

- Ability to design, manage, and maintain data networking services using a broad operational toolset. 

- Contract-context expansion (PWS): operational support for LAN/WAN/WLAN/VPN environments. 

- Contract-context expansion (PWS): working knowledge of monitoring, performance analysis, documentation, and change-control practices.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS 

- Experience supporting federal agency or other regulated enterprise network environments. 

- Contract-context expansion (PWS): experience with Cisco network and unified communications platforms (e.g., Cisco UCM/Unity/Webex integrations). 

- Contract-context expansion (PWS): hands-on experience building operational dashboards and alerts for network SLA/performance management. 

- Contract-context expansion (PWS): familiarity with zero-trust network controls, secure configuration baselines, and audit-ready operations. 

- Contract-context expansion (PWS): ability to script or automate recurring network operational tasks and reporting. 

- CCNA or CCNP Enterprise 

- ITIL 4 Foundation 

- CompTIA Security+

WORK ENVIRONMENT / OTHER

Operational Support: May require participation in on-call or surge support activities depending on operational needs. 

Location: Hybrid 

Travel: As required per contract direction.

If 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.

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 www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

Securing Your Data

Beware of fake employment opportunities using Leidos’ name. Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information during any part of the employment application process (i.e., ask you for money), nor will Leidos ever advance money as part of the hiring process (i.e., send you a check or money order before doing any work). Further, Leidos will only communicate with you through emails that are generated by the Leidos.com automated system – never from free commercial services (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail) or via WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. If you received an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other personal information (e.g., about you or your previous employer), and you are concerned about its legitimacy, please make us aware immediately by emailing us at LeidosCareersFraud@leidos.com.

If you believe you are the victim of a scam, contact your local law enforcement and report the incident to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.