Cellular Configuration and Test Engineer

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The Decision Advantage Business Area at Leidos has an opening for an experienced Cellular Configuration and Test Engineer in Northern Virginia in support of the Department of the Air Force (DAF) Battle Network and supporting infrastructure. In this mission we support the Department of the Air Force to field and operate the customer’s Digital Infrastructure. The Cellular Configuration and Test Engineer will be involved in day‑to‑day activities and strategic long‑term maturation of complex systems.

Details are as follows:

• The Test team within the Digital Infrastructure Network Integration Lab (DI‑NIL) will be responsible for maintaining the DI‑NIL architecture and services. There are levels of support needed throughout, which will include multiple underlying transport services to include cellular services. Overall management of underlying cellular services will be required.
• The DI‑NIL support effort will also include working with customers to ensure the needed environment is configured properly and transport services have been configured properly to allow optimization and prioritization of stakeholder traffic within the environment.
• Full documentation of builds and configurations utilized within the environment is mandatory, as well as process flow documentation to ensure all required tasks are documented and repeatable.
• Additional duties will include backing up other personnel in support of the DI‑NIL effort which is focused on Verification and Validation for the Digital Infrastructure Network.

• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of prior relevant experience or master’s degree with 6+ years of prior relevant experience or demonstratable experience as a Subject Matter Expert.
• Must possess a minimum of a Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance.
• Demonstrable knowledge of cellular concepts and applying these concepts across multiple locations and vendors.
• Demonstrated experience in design and design‑review participation and providing customer‑centric input.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to collaborate with customer representatives, domain experts, and other systems engineers in the development of transport mechanisms for complex DoD systems.
• Demonstrated ability to participate in cross‑functional planning, coordination, and task execution situations involving the full spectrum of system integration activities.
• Ability to work well with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience.
• Advanced understanding of cellular networking.
• Demonstrated ability to brief technical and non‑technical customers.

• Demonstrated experience with Agile program execution and using agile tools (e.g., Jira and Confluence).
• Prior experience working on ABMS or JADC2 initiatives.
• Mid‑level understanding of government systems security testing (ACAS/Nessus) and remediation – ability to discuss security issues and concerns.
• Prior experience designing and deploying networks.
• Prior experience with SAFe Agile implementation.
• Prior experience supporting Department of the Air Force programs.
• Previous experience working on complex multi‑domain systems.
• Experience with design and validation of Cloud and Edge Computing and Network.
• Demonstrable knowledge of test automation and test result analysis.
• Demonstrable experience in network topologies to validate functionality, performance, stability and scalability of features and products.
• Proven expertise in creating test methodologies and writing test specifications.
• Experience in Integration, test, verification, and validation.

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Original Posting:
February 12, 2026

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