
Lead Network Engineer- TS/SCI w/poly
General Dynamics Information Technology
Herndon, VAJob$106.25–143.75/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
GDIT seeks a Lead Network Engineer to support mission-critical government projects. The role requires extensive experience in IP networking and telephony, network security requirements, cloud and virtual environments, and network emulation. Candidates must have 15+ years of related experience, a TS/SCI clearance with polygraph, and U.S. citizenship. A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience is listed as the education qualification.
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Full job description
Req ID: RQ231644
Type of Requisition: Casual
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph
Public Trust/Other Required: None
Job Family: IT Infrastructure and Operations
Skills:
Communication Network,Network Engineering,Telecommunications Network
Experience:
15 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
Yes
Job Description:
LEAD NETWORK ENGINEER
Transform technology into opportunity as a Lead Network Engineer at GDIT. Shape what’s next for mission-critical government projects while shaping what’s next for your engineering career.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED
Bring your engineering expertise along with a drive for innovation to GDIT.
The Lead Network Engineer must have:
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Eight (8) years of experience in all aspects of IP networking and telephony (CISCO unified communications), public and private SIP, session border controllers, VPNs, etc.
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Six (6) years of experience in the design, development, and implementation of functional technical network security requirements.
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Six (6) years of experience designing, implementing and maintaining cloud, Linux, windows domain, network, telephony, and virtual environments.
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Eight (8) years of experience utilizing network emulation technologies, circuits, firewalls, routing, and networking concepts.
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Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science or equivalent experience
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Experience: 15+ years of related experience
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Security clearance level: TS/SCI w/poly
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US citizenship required
GDIT IS YOUR PLACE
At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.
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Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
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Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
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Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
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Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace
OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY Explore an enterprise IT career at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your desire to drive operations forward.
The likely hourly rate for this position is between $106.25 - $143.75. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.
Our Identity Verification Process:
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.
About Our Work:
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.
Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at https://gdit.com/tc.
Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans
How this job compares
Set against the 4,081 open Network Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$106.25–143.75/hr
- Virginia median$30–54/hr26 hourly ranges
- US median$50–61/hr165 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $125/hr, is 196% above the Virginia median midpoint ($42/hr) — in the top quarter of Network Engineer hourly ranges in Virginia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 389 open Network Engineer jobs in Virginia and 4,081 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
- Amazon37 open
- General Dynamics Information Technology (this employer)27 open
- Leidos24 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 15 years of experience — more than three in four Network Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 3,527 postings).
- Education
- 1,204 of the 4,081 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 4, 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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