Leidos is seeking a Jr. Transport Network Specialist to support efforts for the NMCI/SMIT program to perform network engineering support for a broad range of programs including planning, designing, and evaluating various components of the Navy’s NMCI network. Under the Service Management, Integration, and Transport portion of the SMIT program, the Leidos team will deliver the core backbone of the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet, including cybersecurity services, network operations, service desk, and data transport. Ultimately, Leidos will support the Navy in unifying its shore-based networks and data management to improve capability and service while also saving significant dollars by focusing efforts under one enterprise network.

Primary Responsibilities

The Transport Network Team is responsible for monitoring events and incidents that affect Network Transport and service health across the Enterprise, documenting outage information including actions taken to respond to incidents, and resolve or escalate any outage.

The Current Operations Watch team monitors multiple Transport solutions (WLAN, LAN, and WAN) which are critical to the functionality of our users’ ability to perform their mission on a daily basis.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills are a must.

Utilize internal systems to report incidents to leadership.

Create trouble tickets for incidents and events observed through monitoring tools or customer reports.

Performs initial assessment and triage on the criticality and impact of events and engages the appropriate processes and personnel if escalation outside OC is required.

Facilitates escalation to higher tiers as required.

Interact with outside vendors and specialist WAN/BAN teams to resolve WAN events and incidents

Ability to leverage knowledge of Vendor products used in the environment

Provides support to Site Operations and other external organizations through the use of problem resolution skills and independent decision making.

Maintains timely (5 minutes or less) response to network infrastructure warning, critical and fatal event alert notices. 

Ensures the Critical Situation Manager is apprised of all details regarding any significant events or incidents.

Basic Qualifications

Requires 1-2 years of prior relevant experience or training

US Citizen and DoD Secret Clearance

Minimum of DoD 8570.01 IAT Level II Certification required prior to onboarding: CompTIA Security+ CE, Cisco CCNA Security, ISC2 SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, or CYSA+ (See DoD 8570.01-M Appendix 3 for valid certifications)

Familiarity with ITIL best practices (ITIL Foundations)

Knowledgeable on tools used in an Enterprise organization that aids in Event Management; Incident Management and performance Management including experience with SNMP-based network monitoring tools

Worked in a DOD environment and understands customer communication

Experience in a data center environment

Familiarity with Network WAN and LAN Transport technologies, including MPLS, Routing Protocols, Cisco IOS and IOS XE, VLANs, VoIP, Subnet addressing, and switching protocols along with general troubleshooting concepts

Performs well under pressure and ability to calm end users

Hands-on Experience in working with DoD networks, including NIPR and SIPR

Willing to perform shift work

Schedule: Thursday – Saturday with every other Wednesday 0600 – 1800 HST  

Preferred Qualifications

Prior military experience a plus; USMC or USN IT experience preferred

Experience working with networking technologies and data centers

Exceptional communication abilities, both verbal and written, including long-form business writing on complex topics

An entrepreneurial spirit with the ability to drive innovation independently; have a passion to improve at every opportunity

Ability to define program goals and roadmaps based on customer needs and strategic direction, and ensure that committed projects are delivered on schedule by the relevant team members

Ability to work in a matrix organization with other teams to resolve issues and communicate status effectively to peers, subordinates and program leadership

Motivated self-starter with strong written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to create complex technical reports on analytic findings

SMIT-NMCI

Hourly range for position: $25.00/hour - $30.00/hour. Salary to be determined by applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, internal equity, market data, and contractual requirements.

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.