Network Operations Administrator

Leidos' Digital Modernization group is seeking a Network Administrator in support of the Compartmented Enterprise Services Office (CESO) in Arlington, VA. This position is 100% on-site with occasional/situational travel.

This is a day shift position Monday to Friday with hours of 0600 - 1400.

With the CESO program, the Defense Information System Agency (DISA) is looking to transform the existing Secure Web Services (SWS) environment, which provides secure information sharing to the community, into a more mature service offering to meet the DoD and intelligence communities. As part of this task order, Leidos will manage the commercial cloud migration and disestablishment of legacy systems, fully automate the continuous development & continuous integration environment, fourth estate consolidation, professionalize services - ITIL/DevSecOps based processes, improve the customer experience 1st call resolution, and achieve development of a service catalog for Defense Working Capital Fund (DWCF) Model.

U.S. citizenship with an active TS/SCI clearance and ability to obtain a CI Poly is required.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Network monitoring of connections and performance to ensure network availability for user access and services.
• Proactively identify risks and issues in the network and complete actions to mitigate them.
• Able to plan, coordinate and implement network maintenance, installation, and security to protect and improve network infrastructure.
• Receive and review user requests to establish or resolve issues with user access to services.
• Troubleshoot and resolve network issues and escalate complex problems to senior engineers or vendors.
• Configure, install, and maintain network devices and software

Basic Qualifications:

• Currently possess an active TS/SCI security clearance
• Currently possess DoD 8570 certification at least IAT level II, e.g Security+ce.
• BS in computer science or IT and 4+ years of experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Experience monitoring network performance, security, and availability
• Experience in configuring switches and routers.
• Experience working with Dynamic routing protocols (BGP, OSPF)
• Ability to change and configure 802.1x
• Prior experience troubleshooting S2S/IPSEC tunnels connection.
• Experience conducting VLAN configurations

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience with DISA and DISA's support to mission partners
• TS/SCI w/CI Poly Preferred
• AWS Cloud service experience
• Experience with Palo Alto devices

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Original Posting:
May 13, 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 $73,450.00 - $132,775.00

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.