network engineer Remote
Job description
Description
1901 Group at Leidos currently has an opening for a Network Administrator to support our Blacksburg Virginia Enterprise IT Operations Center. This is a great opportunity to work with an elite team of network professionals to maintain a secure environment for critical systems. Bring your own experience and work with our team to teach and learn while building, maintaining, and supporting our customer environments.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Integrate compute, storage, security, and cloud access into network architectures.
- Work directly with customers to refine and finalize designs.
- Collaborate and work with team members to assist in skill development and team growth.
- Assist with the development of proposals and white papers describing potential solutions.
- Troubleshoot complex network issues and assist with the development of solutions.
- Perform incident analysis to determine possible cause and potential fix.
- Design and implement firewall policies to secure the organization's network and protect against external and internal threats.
- Design, maintain, update, and document VPN connectivity to partners and outside vendors.
- Troubleshoot escalated network and security issues ranging from hardware to operating systems/applications/permissions/user profile related issues.
- Monitor firewall logs and alerts to identify and resolve security incidents.
- Work in hybrid multi-location operations team administering existing production network.
- Assist in creating automation and process improvements toward greater efficiency, reduced incidents, and proactive systems management.
- Support tickets and manage incidents, service requests, and problems through their full life-cycle.
- Provide health and performance reporting and take appropriate actions based on trends in data.
- Document status updates and communicate to necessary parties.
- Document troubleshooting steps and knowledge articles for Shared Desk and Help Desk teams.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree and 1 year experience or an Associate’s degree and 3 years experience
- Experienced with operational and security hardening configuration for firewall solutions
- Familiarization with Palo Alto Firewalls
- Familiarization with Aruba Networking products
- Demonstrated experience with networking and switching protocols and infrastructure services
- Familiar with ticketing systems and the value of good documentation
- A US Citizen who can obtain a DoD secret clearance
- Obtain a baseline 8570 certification [(IAT Level II) CCNA-Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP].
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science in IT Related Field and 3+ years of experience
- Current Palo Alto Certification (PCNSA or PCNSE)
- DoD secret clearance
- Security+ CE certification
- Cisco Certified CCNA
Pay Range:
Pay Range $37,050.00 - $57,000.00 - $76,950.00The 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.
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