Description
Leidos Intelligence Group is seeking a Systems Engineer to support an enterprise IT program. The Sponsor requires a Systems Engineer to manage beacon and communications servers, applications, and equipment to support mission-critical training
Primary Responsibilities:
The Sponsor is responsible for providing mission-critical training. This effort focuses on managing the suite of technologies supporting these training courses.
The Sponsor requires subject matter expertise managing the hardware, software, networks and systems underpinning the suite's operations, maintenance, development, upgrades, and security. Priorities and tasking will be managed by the GTM with input from the Sponsor
The team of Systems Engineers will ensure the secure design and implementation of program systems, protecting against unauthorized access, usage denial, theft, and insider threats. They will maximize the security of the system by protecting Sponsor data and ensuring security best practices, including those defined by the Sponsor, are followed, and install, patch and update software to monitor and maintain system capabilities, uptime and stability.
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They will support Sponsor's Assessment & Authorization (A&A) accreditation requirements; manage information system security, policy, accreditation, and regulatory compliance; and play a crucial role in integrating information assurance into Sponsor's acquisition and implementation processes. The team will also support all elements of the Sponsor's systems, comprised of commercial off the shelf (COTS) products and software, along with several customized tools and applications and harmonize all hardware, software, tools, applications, and elements of Sponsor's systems, maximizing interoperability and efficiency.
They will provide the Sponsor a modern and stable platform which meets security requirements and enables users to communicate and collaborate securely and work with the GTM to recommend relevant new technologies and present those findings, along with best practices, to the GTM and leadership in an effort to ensure the system remains at the forefront of stability, security, and efficiency.
They will support enhancement efforts and develop new capabilities for Sponsor's use to meet mission needs.
The Systems Engineer team will manage beacon and communications servers, applications, and equipment, ensuring maximum reliability of tracking solutions for training course attendees.
They will create, change, add, remove, and maintain user accounts, via script and coding, of the beacon and communication servers, applications and equipment and configure, set up, monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot LAN equipment such as, but not limited to, firewalls, switches, and routers. The team will maintain maximum system uptime and stability.
Finally, they will work closely with Sponsor staff and contractor personnel, as well as external vendors and stakeholders, be involved in the development of technical equipment specifications, and work with external vendors to develop vendor quotations.
They will strategically support software and hardware engineering and development efforts to maintain current and deliver new capabilities to enhance program priorities and identify issues or dependencies to Sponsor staff and work to resolve them as prioritized by the Government Task Manager with input from Sponsor's leadership.
Basic Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience administering communications solutions.
- Demonstrated experience administering beaconing solutions
- Demonstrated experience managing cloud infrastructure.
- Demonstrated experience customizing, deploying and maintaining Android cellular telephones.
- Demonstrated experience using ATAK (Android Team Awareness Kit) beaconing and tracking hardware, software, scripts, and code.
- Demonstrated experience managing telephones, laptops, and tablet devices, all of which require configuration and maintenance while maximizing uptime and communications reliability.
- Demonstrated experience configuring, setting up, monitoring, maintaining, troubleshooting and running firewalls, switches, routers, or other WAN and LAN systems or equipment.
- Demonstrated experience using encryption hardware and software and virtual private network (VPN) applications.
- Demonstrated experience bringing programmatic discipline to the management of a complex systems.
- Demonstrated experience gathering and vetting new technical requirements.
- Demonstrated experience identifying requirements and constraints pertaining to technical capabilities and solutions in support of training and educational exercises.
- Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership.
- Demonstrated experience cross-skilling and backfilling for teammates.
- Demonstrated experience integrating systems and managing technical programs.
- Demonstrated experience with system assessment and authorization (A&A) processes.
- Demonstrated experience handling sensitive data, exercising discretion and sound judgment, and achieving mission outcomes.
- Demonstrated experience utilizing and executing regulatory and data retention policies and modifying such policies with input and direction from key stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal and communication skills with all levels of Sponsor personnel.
- Demonstrated experience using communication tools including push-to-talk technology.
- Demonstrated experience using map imagery applications.
- Demonstrated experience utilizing Microsoft cloud-based tools including Office 365, Azure, Entrap and Teams.
- Demonstrated experience working with Sponsor staff, contractor personnel, external vendors, and stakeholders in the development of technical equipment specifications.
- Demonstrated experience working with external vendors to develop vendor quotations
- Demonstrated experience providing a modern and stable platform which meets security requirements and enables users to communicate and collaborate securely and work with the GTM to recommend relevant new technologies and present those findings.
- Demonstrated experience harmonizing all hardware, software, tools, applications, and elements of Sponsor's systems, maximizing interoperability and efficiency.
- Demonstrated experience managing telephones, laptops, and tablet devices, all of which require configuration and maintenance while maximizing uptime and communications reliability.
Original Posting:
June 25, 2025
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 $126,100.00 - $227,950.00
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.