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Leidos is dedicated to making the world a safer place. This starts with helping our customers in the Defense Industry achieve their critical missions. From our airborne work with sensors alerting warfighters to what's over the next hill, our autonomous maritime platforms protecting sea lanes and shores; our dedicated Defense Group employees are solving critical challenges across the globe. 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.
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Leidos has an exciting and rewarding career opportunity for a cleared Network Engineer in Beavercreek, OH near Wright-Patterson AFB supporting one of USAF AFLCMC’s programs. This position will provide Network Engineering support to our end customer to design, develop, integrate, test, and ultimately field new features and capabilities for multiple platforms.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Effectively communicate hardware and software issues with customers and end users to include leading customer and vendor meetings.
- Effectively track and document hardware and software across multiple locations and programs.
- Design and engineer program environments, enclaves, and networks.
- Engineer, monitor, manage, and troubleshoot internal and external networks to include encryptors, firewalls, routers, and switches.
- Engineer, monitor, manage, and troubleshoot virtual environments to include VMware.
- Engineer, monitor, and manage storage appliances and ability to help troubleshoot issues with vendor support.
- Research, implement, monitor, manage, patch, and troubleshoot various Microsoft and Linux products.
- Research, implement, and troubleshoot active directory, group policy, routing and DNS.
- Execute the process for managing information assurance vulnerability alerts (IAVAs) and system security scanning for equipment suites in accordance with the System Security Plans for these systems to rapidly and accurately identify and remediate IAVAs.
- Initiate IAVA responses and system security scans, completing remediation, extending IAVA patches and security updates to designated sites, and execute monthly security scans.
- Review logs and vulnerabilities, identify potential issues, and engineer solutions to remediate or mitigate these issues.
- Plan and manage system installations and upgrades for networks and servers (hardware and software).
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of prior relevant experience or a Master’s degree with 6+ years of experience in one of these areas: Networking, Communications, or Systems Engineering. Additional 4 years of experience will be acceptable in lieu of a bachelor’s degree
- Ability to identify issues and research fixes
- Strong desire to grow and learn new technologies
- Strong fundamental network knowledge: IP, DNS, DHCP, BGP, OSPF, SD-WAN, VLANs, Switch configuration
- Must be a US Citizen
- Must have an active DoD TS/SCI security clearance
Preferred Qualifications:
- Professional certifications i.e. Cisco, VMware, Microsoft, CompTIA
- Experience leveraging Juniper Smart Session Routers
- Previous experience with encryption networks
- COMSEC Experience
- Familiar with CISCO command line
- Experience with Fiber networking
- Experience working with ruggedized systems
- Experience with VPN or enterprise network routing / edge connect
- Experience with MLS Switches
- Experience working with NTP/PTP
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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.
Original Posting:September 4, 2026For 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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of relevant experience, or a master's degree and 6+ years of experience in networking, communications, or systems engineering
- Additional four years of relevant experience may substitute for a bachelor's degree
- Ability to identify issues and research fixes
- Strong fundamental network knowledge, including IP, DNS, DHCP, BGP, OSPF, SD-WAN, VLANs, and switch configuration
- Must be a US citizen
- Must have an active DoD TS/SCI security clearance
- Professional certifications such as Cisco, VMware, Microsoft, or CompTIA
- Experience with Juniper Smart Session Routers
- Previous experience with encryption networks
- COMSEC experience
- Familiarity with Cisco command line
- Fiber networking experience
- Experience with ruggedized systems
- VPN or enterprise network routing and edge connectivity experience
- Experience with MLS switches
- Experience with NTP/PTP
Leidos Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Leidos and has not been reviewed or approved by Leidos.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, with multiple plan options, low office-visit copays in some plans, and access to mental health and wellness support tools. The availability of HSA/FSA options and employer contributions is positioned as a meaningful part of the total package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are framed as a strong component of total rewards, highlighted by a 401(k) match and immediate vesting in the standard package. The Employee Stock Purchase Plan is also presented as an additional long-term wealth-building feature.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle supports extend beyond core insurance, including wellness programs, fitness-related stipends, and assistance resources. Work flexibility and related perks are also included as part of the broader rewards experience.
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What We Do
We Are Leidos For 50 years we have been tackling some of the biggest problems that face our nation and our world. OUR MISSION Through our culture of innovation and history of performance, we develop deep customer trust built on integrity and create enduring solutions that improve our world. Leidos is a science and technology solutions leader working to address some of the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and healthcare markets. The company’s 43,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $11.09 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2020. Leidos was cited for the meaningful work employees perform that is challenging, impactful, and aligned with our customers’ missions as reasons professionals want to work and stay at our company. Leidos has also been named to lists including Forbes’ Best Employers for Diversity, Forbes’ America’s Best Employers for Women, Military Times Best for Vets Employers, and Ethisphere Institute’s World's Most Ethical Companies®. Employees enjoy career enrichment opportunities available through mobility and development and experience rewarding relationships with supportive supervisors and talented colleagues and customers. Employees appreciate our flexible work environment, allowing for and encouraging a true work-life balance. Our professionals are also excited about our Employee Resource Groups, like the newly launched Collaborative Outreach with Remote and Embedded Employees (CORE), which strives to create an environment where every employee, regardless of location, feels fully engaged as a valued employee of Leidos. Your most important work is ahead.
