Posted 20 days ago
Description
Description
Leidos seeks highly qualified Systems Integration Lab Manager with a strong working knowledge of network engineering to provide expert guidance and direction underpinning Leidos on-site support to Air Force Life Cycle Management Center/Cyber and Networks Directorate.
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Primary Responsibilities:
- Manage and lead the systems integration lab to ensure efficient operation and maintenance of lab facilities.
- Manage lab resources, including budgeting and equipment/material procurement.
- Provide expert full system engineering lifecycle support on complex data systems and networks.
- Assign tasks, manage workloads, and provide performance execution leadership and guidance.
- Responsible for the surveying, engineering, installing, configuring, and reliably operating computer systems, servers, and networks.
- Provide strategic leadership on complex policy issues involving technology such as Data Analytics, Autonomous Systems, and Cybersecurity
- Integrate hardware, software, and network solutions to enhance the Air Force's HNCD operational capabilities, with focus on ensuring interoperability between different systems and platforms
- System engineering expertise required for some or all the following areas: system architecture and design; requirements analysis and development; data flow analysis; network design and implementation; and testing and documentation
- Provide guidance for system development and implementation through plans assessment
- Develop system configuration documentation, to include designs for capacity and performance planning; performing risk assessments; and analyses of alternatives for a variety of system related issues and concerns
- Supervise or coordinate the work of other contractor engineers or technicians on various projects
- Analyze and propose appropriate engineering standards and processes and assist in conducting evaluations to determine suitability for project implementation and develop new or innovative approaches to technical or engineering issues
- Support rigorous testing and validation of systems in simulated and real-world environments
- Mentor junior systems engineers to build technical expertise within the organization and foster collaboration across multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders
- Communicate complex information, concepts, or ideas in a confident and well-organized manner through verbal, written, and/or visual means
- Prepare and perform briefings appropriate for senior leadership (i.e., general officer or flag officer)
- Support development of standards, metrics and measures to support assessments, process improvements and operational efficiencies across HNCD
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of related experience or a Masters and 3+ years of related experience. A combination of education and experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
- US Citizen with at least a Secret security clearance eligible to upgrade to Top Secret for access to SCI.
- DoD 8570 certifications.
- IAT II, OS.
- Demonstrated technical team leadership experience.
- Demonstrated experience working within the Agile framework.
- Prior experience with designing, deploying, testing, implementing, and migrating network infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience with SD-WAN technologies (e.g. Cisco, VERSA, Juniper, etc.).
- Extensive knowledge/experience of large-scale WAN, MPLS, routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, ISIS), and internet technologies.
- Strong campus/enterprise networking experience.
- Able to conduct research into networking issues and products as required.
- Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Visio.
- Must have an active Secret security clearance and eligible to upgrade
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with API automation/orchestration tools/systems such as Ansible and Python Scripting.
- Familiarity working within structured CI/CD DevOps pipelines.
- Strong understanding of virtualization, hypervisor, HCI, cloud-native, and container technologies.
- Prior experience with Public/Gov/DoD Cloud environments and implementing virtualized network infrastructure.
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Original Posting:
October 19, 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.