Senior Wide Area Network (WAN) Engineer

About this role

The Defense sector at Leidos is seeking a cleared Senior Wide Area Network (WAN) Engineer to engineer, operate, and sustain long-haul transport and routing infrastructure across Department of Defense (DoD/DoW) networks. This individual serves as a Subject Matter Expert on routing for the enterprise WAN — assisting the Network Architect with Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) design, peering, and policy across NIPRNet, SIPRNet, and DISN service delivery points — and is accountable for the availability, performance, and STIG compliance of circuits supporting operational mission traffic worldwide.

​ Roles and Responsibilities: • ​Design, implement, and maintain BGP routing architecture across the enterprise WAN, including peering relationships, autonomous system boundaries, and route policy enforcement.  • ​Serve as the escalation authority for complex WAN faults — route flapping, asymmetric paths, MTU and fragmentation issues, black-holed prefixes, and provider circuit degradation.  • ​Engineer and execute circuit installations, migrations, bandwidth upgrades, and site cutovers with documented rollback plans and minimal mission impact.  • ​Develop and maintain routing policy standards, IP address and ASN allocation plans, and authoritative network documentation including logical and physical topology diagrams.  • ​Configure and sustain QoS, traffic engineering, and path selection to prioritize command and control, VTC, and VoIP traffic across constrained transport.  • ​Apply DISA STIGs to routing and transport devices, remediate IAVA findings, and support RMF assessment and authorization artifacts and POA&M closure.  • ​Coordinate with DISA, NOC/SOC teams, transport providers, and site network personnel to schedule and validate maintenance actions and outage restoration.  • ​Monitor WAN health and capacity using SolarWinds, NetFlow, and SNMP-based tooling; produce trend analysis and capacity recommendations for government leadership.  • ​Manage Type 1 encryptor configuration and key management coordination in support of secure enclave connectivity.  • ​Mentor junior network administrators, review proposed configuration changes, and represent WAN engineering positions at CCB and technical review boards. 

Required Qualifications: • ​ Clearance: US Citizen with at least a Top Secret clearance and the ability to obtain a SCI prior to your start date. • ​ Education:  Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of experience or a Master’s degree with 6+ years of experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree. • Experience:  8+ years of hands-on enterprise WAN engineering and operations experience, with demonstrated ownership of multi-site routed transport in a DoD environment.  • Certifications:  DoD 8570/8140 IAT Level II certification (Security+ CE or equivalent) plus an active CCNP Enterprise, JNCIP-SP, or equivalent routing certification.    • ​ BGP Expertise:   • ​Expert-level configuration and troubleshooting of eBGP and iBGP, including route reflectors, confederations, and full-mesh peering designs.  • ​Proven ability to author and tune BGP routing policy using route maps, prefix lists, AS-path filters, communities, local preference, MED, and AS-path prepending.  • ​Experience establishing and sustaining BGP peering with DISA/DISN service delivery nodes and commercial transport providers.  • ​Working knowledge of BGP convergence tuning, dampening, BFD, and route leak/hijack mitigation. 

• ​ Routing & Transport:  Strong proficiency with OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS L2/L3 VPNs, VRFs, QoS policy for voice and mission traffic, and IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack operations.  • ​ Platforms:  Hands-on administration of Cisco (IOS-XE/IOS-XR/NX-OS) and Juniper (Junos) routing platforms in an operational production network.  • ​ Encryption & Circuits:  Experience with Type 1 inline network encryptors (TACLANE/KG-175, HAIPE) and with DISA circuit lifecycle actions (TSR/TSO, DISA Direct/SNAP).  • ​ Compliance:  Working knowledge of DISA STIGs, RMF, IAVA remediation, and change control under DoD configuration management processes.  • ​ Troubleshooting:  Demonstrated packet-level analysis skill using Wireshark/tcpdump, SPAN/TAP captures, and NetFlow to isolate faults across provider and government segments.  • ​ Availability:  Ability to support on-call rotation, scheduled maintenance windows, and after-hours cutovers; occasional CONUS/OCONUS travel may be required. 

​ Preferred Qualifications: • ​ Advanced Certification:  CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure or Service Provider, JNCIE-SP, or DoD 8570/8140 IAT Level III (CASP+ or CISSP).  • ​ Segment Routing & MPLS-TE:  Experience with segment routing, MPLS traffic engineering, or EVPN in a large-scale transport core.  • ​ SD-WAN:  Hands-on experience with Cisco SD-WAN or Juniper SDWAN or comparable overlay transport in a DoD/DoW deployment.  • ​ Automation:  Proficiency with Python, Ansible, for configuration deployment, compliance auditing, and network state validation.  • ​ DoD Enterprise Services:  Familiarity with JRSS, DODIN operations, and DoD boundary/CDS architectures.  • ​ Optical Transport:  Working knowledge of DWDM, SONET/SDH, and carrier Ethernet handoffs supporting long-haul circuits. 

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Original Posting: September 2, 2026 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.

Pay Range: Pay Range $92,300.00 - $166,850.00 The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guaran

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