Leidos Dig Mod Health IT division is seeking an Application Delivery/Load Balancing Team Lead on a large network services opportunity supporting the Health Agency in Montgomery County, MD. This opportunity will support the very important mission of Health IT Network Services for Information Technology (CIT), which provide enterprise services and infrastructure that seek to achieve service-level performance efficiencies, innovative improvements, optimal performance and risk reductions.

We need key personnel hires with a deep knowledge networks expertise and complexity and tech roadmap experience to contribute to the trusted Health IT Network Services and Leidos partnership. Looking for experience candidates that can maintain stable operations while delivering innovation, automation, leadership, network security and performance support/metrics, operations and continual improvement to advance the Health IT Network Services scientific mission.

This program consists of network operations, architecture and engineering support, security engineering, change management, special application deliveries

The Application Delivery Team lead will have the responsibility to ensure the adequate security posture for numerous networking applications, web-based Intranet, operating systems and applications supporting infrastructure activities are in compliance with 508, FIPS-201, HSPD-12 and other HHS policies and standards. The responsibilities also include the validation of common application security configuration management, the assurance of accurate installations, and functioning software applications. delivery of Customer deliverables, creation of Customer briefs for status and regular meetings. This role will interface across the program ensuring support of the technical roadmap interfacing with Network Operations as well as the architecture engineering group.

Primary Responsibilities:

Provide on-site support to the health agency in MD

Sustain and optimize multiple F5 BIG-IP physical and virtual systems to support load balancing and high availability for critical mission and infrastructure application

Implement and manage BIG-IP web application firewalls

Manage a small application delivery team including assigning tasks, priorities, and due dates

Provide backfill for other security team activities as needed

Work with other network engineers and architects to support major upgrade or new network initiatives

Maintain and enhance monitoring solutions for applications

Support documentation changes to ATO packages as needed

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or other related discipline or equivalent related experience

Must have one or more of the following certifications: F5 Certified Technology Specialist or F5 Certified Solution Expert

Seven (7) years of related load balancing experience

Three (3) years of experience configuring Cisco switches, routers, and firewalls

Management experience for small technical teams

Two years of experience implementing load balancing solutions for cloud applications

Experience working with enterprise VPN, PKI infrastructure, and DNS solutions

Thorough knowledge of network security concepts and emerging cybersecurity capabilities

Thorough knowledge of various enterprise security point technologies and tools

Demonstrated experience supporting a large Federal agency preferably in HHS.

Possess the knowledge of security best practices, security solutions, and methodologies for risk management

Must be able to obtain a public trust security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

Active CISSP certification strongly desired

ITIL 4, CCIE, CCNP 

Operational experience with environments employing cloud or software-defined networking 

Operational experience using ScienceLogic SL1 

Demonstrated experience implementing successful continuous process improvement within an IT infrastructure environment 

Experience using ServiceNow Project Portfolio Management

Original Posting Date:2024-11-13

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.

Pay Range:Pay Range $89,700.00 - $162,150.00

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.