Network Enterprise Design Engineer Senior

Overview

NGEN-R is the largest IT services program for the Navy. Under the Service Management, Integration, and Transport (SMIT) portion of NGEN‑R, the Leidos team will deliver the core backbone of the Navy‑Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) and Marine Corps Enterprise Network (MCEN), including cybersecurity services, network operations, service desk, and data transport.

Barstow, CA.

The Network Enterprise Design Engineer Senior will 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.

• Develop, review and maintain procedures related to the overall monitoring of hosts/systems.
• Perform defensive cyber operation duties including ensuring server compliance with Marine Corps IAVM and Tenable Security Center.
• Configure and maintain 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 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 to maintain compliance with operational directives.
• Teach, coach and mentor others.
• Build effective communications to explain complex technical information to wider audiences.

• U.S. Citizen with an active DOD Secret clearance.
• High school diploma or GED and at least 8 years of related experience.
• Current IAT Level III certification.
• Experience in software‑defined networking.
• Understanding of Kafka architecture and proficiency with Kafka CLI tools for topic creation, data publishing, and message consumption.
• Experience managing schema evolution in Confluent’s Schema Registry and expertise with Avro and JSON Schema for data serialization.
• Solid knowledge in Linux, SQL/KQL, Confluent/Kafka, SSL/TLS, Java, Python, Go or Node.js for building lightweight streaming apps.

Hourly range: $45/hour – $55/hour.

Competitive compensation, health and wellness programs, income protection, paid leave and retirement benefits.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.