Network Engineer
Chantilly, VAJob$160–200K/yrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
SAIC seeks a Senior Network Engineer to support a U.S. Government customer by managing on-premise systems and networks. The role provides networking expertise to development efforts and serves as the primary liaison between the customer and development contractors on network issues. The engineer will implement and monitor network paths, troubleshoot and maintain systems, document network architecture, and test network systems.
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Description
SAIC has an immediate opening for a Senior Network Engineer to support a highly dynamic and growing program with one of our US Government customers. You will be a part of a large multi-year contract that supports our customer in systems engineering and integration across a broad portfolio of projects. You will come into a program that enjoys a close working relationship with the customer, bringing exquisite technical expertise to bear on real world problems, helping the customer execute real world missions that impact National Security on a daily basis. This close relationship, along with the program's longevity (20 years), ensures that as a new team member you will find a depth of support for growth and development that is unmatched, all while making a difference - daily.
Your role in the program will focus on supporting the customer in the management of various on-premise systems and networks. You will work directly with the system as well as the development contractors that support the system integration. You will provide both general networking expertise to guide the development efforts and be the primary liaison between the customer and development contractors for all network issues. Communication skills are of key importance in this role.
Key Responsibilities:
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Implementing new network routes and configurations to external organizations and their systems
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Network monitoring of on-prem and remote systems
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Troubleshooting and operations/maintenance of on-prem and remote mission network paths
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Documenting and developing specifications and detailed schematics for existing network architecture
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Conducting testing of network systems
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Maintaining technical expertise in all areas of network and computer hardware and software interconnection and interfacing, such as routers, switchers, firewalls, hubs, bridges, gateways, etc.
Qualifications
Required:
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Must currently hold a TS/SCI and Poly in order to be considered
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Experience maintaining and configuring CISCO firewalls
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Experience integrating enclave networks with enterprise networks
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Experience documenting an IT / networking infrastructure
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Experience configuring and troubleshooting network routes, tunnels and VPNs
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Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience
Desired:
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Experience with cross-domain issues
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Experience with network multicast troubleshooting
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Experience with GitLab
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Experience with AWS Cloud
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Experience with CISCO FIREPOWER firewalls
Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
REQNUMBER: 2618575
SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability
How this job compares
Set against the 4,085 open Network Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$160–200K/yr
- Virginia median$120–182K/yr309 salary ranges
- US median$116–191K/yr3,187 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $180K, is 20% above the Virginia median midpoint ($150K) — in the top quarter of Network Engineer salary ranges in Virginia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 384 open Network Engineer jobs in Virginia and 4,085 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Network Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (3,539 postings).
- Education
- 1,225 of the 4,085 open Network Engineer jobs (30%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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