Senior Software Developer

Leidos is seeking a Sr. Orchestration & Automation Software Developer to join our AGUN team.

PROGRAM SUMMARY:
The AGUN program is a highly demanding mission and requires expert technical and professional management to support the Army’s global wide area network and security infrastructure. You will be supporting a large and complex network migration and operations for the US Army. This role will include resolving service tickets on the AGUN system, providing prioritized validated/tested automated workflows to the Operations and Management Team, and providing operational support activities for a global network. 

CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT: 
Must currently possess and be able to maintain an active DoD SECRET security clearance. (US Citizenship required)

What you will do:

• Operate and maintain secure network solutions operated as a centralized enterprise capability for the US Army and provide 8x5 and on call tier III support.

• Conduct automation workflow development prioritized by the Global Cyber Center (GCC) for Operations & Management and GCC use.

• Lead a small team.

• Provide general support to GCC focusing on automation backlog found in SEP and working non-standard changes or emergency workflows for the GCC.

• Analyze and understand secure wide area connectivity inclusive of underlay, overlay, and transport design that supports performance, quality of service, security, and mission requirements.  

• Support secure access solutions leveraging zero trust network access (ZTNA) including support for creation of new access policies and maintenance of existing policies.  

• Integrate capacity planning and scaling of network and security stack environments into the overall operational support processes and staff.

• Escalate tickets and problems through the Jira Service Desk ticketing system to higher tier teams as required.

• Partner with key stakeholders and technical experts to perform legacy environment discovery, assessing current capabilities, configurations, and requirements to provide tier III support for the Army global network.  

• Collect, investigate, and identify network optimization strategies and techniques to meet capacity and performance standards.

• Work with information assurance teams and the AGUN cybersecurity service provider (CSSP) to ensure compliance to DoD standards to assist with maintenance of the network security posture.

   
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years' experience or Master's degree with 6+ years of experience (additional years of directly applicable experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree).

• Require active DoD IAT Level II (i.e. Security+) certification or equivalent prior to start.

• Demonstrated experience with supporting Cisco SDWAN and/or Palo Alto NGFW

• Demonstrated experience with networking concepts and protocols: LAN, WAN, BGP, TCP/UDP, IPSec, VPN, Routing(L2/L3), and Firewalls.

• Demonstrate experience in one or more of the following enterprise network management tools such as Palo Alto Panorama, Cisco Prime, Cisco DNA, or Junos Space.

• Must have experience in working with two or more of the following vendor network technologies: Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, or Dell.

• Experience with the following protocols: SFTP, SSH, SCP, SNMP, NTP.

• Understanding of virtualized network devices, infrastructure, and architecture.

• Understanding of SecDevOps processes.

• Must be able to work as part of a team to lead troubleshooting and resolve complex network issues.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Certified Cisco Network Professional (CCNP) or equivalent.

• Experience leading small teams.

• Demonstrate experience in system hardening of network infrastructure to include DoD STIG implementation and automation.

• Experience developing network automation.

• Experience with VMware support.

• Experience with GitLab source control and CI/CD pipeline development.

• Experience with NetSecOps technologies including salt, git, Ansible, Terraform, Puppet and network element managers.

• Knowledge of Kubernetes or Docker.

• Network Performance Management (SNMP, NETMON, LiveAction)

• AGILE development experience.

• Knowledge of Software Defined Networking (SDN) concepts.

• Experience with AppGate/ZTNA architecture.

• Demonstra