Senior Network Enterprise Management Design Engineer

Description

Unleash Your Potential

At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business.

If this sounds like an environment where you can thrive, keep reading!

The Mission

The Leidos team delivers the core backbone of the Service, Management, Integration and Transport (SMIT) program, including cybersecurity services, network operations, service desk, and data transport. Leidos will support network modernization efforts to provide Sailors, Marines and the civilian workforce the tools they need to be more efficient at increasing naval capabilities and further empowering the Navy Marine Corps team to compete and win.

In support of this exciting program Leidos is looking to hire a Senior Network Enterprise Management Design Engineer in Camp Pendleton, CA to join our Team.

Job Description
The selected candidate will assist the Government Lead in the daily engineering duties on systems. Additional job duties and responsibilities include:

• Develop, Review and Maintain procedures related to the overall monitoring of Hosts/System
• Implement and monitor security measures for communication systems, networks, and provide advice that systems and personnel adhere to established security standards and Governmental requirements for security on these systems.
• Perform defensive cyber operation duties including, but not limited to, ensuring server compliancy with Marine Corps IAVM, and Tenable SecurityCenter.
• Configuring and maintaining the health of Confluent, Kafka, data/ingest flows and supporting architecture.
• Develop and execute Government approved security policies, plans, and procedures; implement data network security measures; conduct IS security incident handling; support Continuity of Operations Plan/Disaster Recovery (COOP/DR) plans, and perform certification of IS and networks.
• Perform weekly vulnerability audits, submit Plans of Action and Milestone (POA&M) and assist with patching for all DCO Division systems in order to maintain compliance with operational directives.
• Teaching, coaching and mentoring others
• Building effective communications to explain complex technical information to wider audiences.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, MIS, Business, or related field and a minimum of 10 years of experience. Experience can be substituted for education.
• IAT Level II Certifications (i.e. Security+ )
• Must obtain a CSSP Infrastructure Support Certification (within 6 months of hire).
• Active Secret clearance
• Experience with the performance and configuration of networks.
• Experience with NetWork Network Control and Comply to Connect.

Key Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Strong problem solving, analytical, communication and interpersonal skills. Has solid knowledge or experience in several of the following areas:

• Linux and Linux Commands
• SQL and KQL or structured query languages
• Confluent/Kafka knowledge and navigation
• Understanding SSL/TLS for data encryption.

Exposure to Programming Languages

Strong understanding of languages like:

• Java (primary Kafka client library).
• Python (for data pipelines and scripting).
• Go or Node.js (for building lightweight streaming apps).

Data Governance and Schema Management

• Expertise with Avro and JSON Schema for data serialization.
• Managing schema evolution in Confluent's Schema Registry .

Kafka Fundamentals

• Understanding Kafka architecture (brokers, topics, partitions, consumers, producers).
• Proficiency in Kafka CLI tools for topic creation, data publishing, and message consumption.

SMIT

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.