Overview
As a Network Engineer supporting AFRICOM in Stuttgart, you will design and operate secure, highly available DoD networks while advancing automation and orchestration capabilities. You collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure mission readiness and performance across geographically dispersed sites. You will address complex routing, data center fabrics, and crypto-enabled networks, driving reliability, security, and scalable solutions. This role offers the opportunity to shape modern network operations through IaC and SDN/DevOps practices in a critical mission context.
Verantwortungsbereiche
- Design, implement, and maintain reliable, scalable network systems
- Configure enterprise routing and switching with DMVPN, MPLS Segment-Routing
- Manage datacenter fabrics using Cisco ACI and Nexus platforms
- Deploy and update Palo Alto and Cisco Firepower firewalls with centralized management
- Administer Cisco ISE for secure access and Zero Trust support
- Architect and maintain GEM One management infrastructure for HAIPE devices
- Perform remote provisioning and key management for TACLANE encryptors via GEM One
- Develop automation frameworks (Ansible, Python, REST APIs) to support SDA and IaC
- Maintain core services (F5, Infoblox DNS/DHCP/IPAM)
- Identify performance bottlenecks and single points of failure
- Create a roadmap to mature DevOps practices and IaC (Terraform)
- Gather metrics for performance tuning, fault discovery, and after-action reporting
- Collaborate with operations to build automation use-cases and ensure rigorous testing/release procedures
Zentrale Anforderungen
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline OR 11+ years of specialized technical experience
- Minimum 5 years of practical network engineering experience in mid-to-large scale enterprise or military environments
- Strong programming/scripting ability (Python, Go, or PowerShell)
- Hands-on experience with automation/orchestration tools (Ansible, VMware Aria Suite, ServiceNow)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- DoD 8570/8140 IAT Level II baseline certification (e.g., Security+ CE)
- U.S. Citizenship and Active Top Secret clearance with SCI
- proactive problem solving
- cross-functional collaboration
- rigorous testing and release discipline
- DMVPN
- MPLS Segment-Routing
- Cisco ACI and Nexus
Network Engineer in Ludwigsburg Arbeitgeber: Leidos
Leidos ist ein hervorragender Arbeitgeber, der seinen Mitarbeitern in Stuttgart, Deutschland, eine bedeutende Karriere im Bereich der Cybersicherheit bietet. Mit einem starken Fokus auf persönliche und berufliche Weiterentwicklung, einer unterstützenden Expat-Community und attraktiven Vorteilen wie Umzugskostenübernahme und umfassenden Gesundheitsleistungen, fördert Leidos eine dynamische und innovative Arbeitskultur, die es den Mitarbeitern ermöglicht, an vorderster Front der digitalen Transformation zu arbeiten.
