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Lead Systems Engineer
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What they do
A Systems Engineer creates computer and data communication networks for companies and organizations. Plans and designs layout for a network, determines the hardware needed and placement of computers, servers, cables and routers; determines data storage, system capacity, and speed.
$121,841 / year median in Maryland
+3% projected growth
Job Description
Lead Systems Engineer
Skills
- Lifecycle Management
- Software Development
- Adobe AIR
- Level Design
- Budget
- Technical Direction
- Drawing
- Bill Of Materials
- Version Control
- Physical Layer
- Design Review
- Procurement
- RMA
- Regulatory Compliance
- Cabling
- Information Technology
- Computer Science
- Structured Cabling
- Distribution
- Network
- Computer Hardware
- Computer Networking
- Switches
- VLAN
- Optical Fiber
- Media
- Microsoft Visio
- Electrical Wiring
- Communication
- Artificial Intelligence
- Workflow
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Network+
- Cisco Certifications
- Network Engineering
- Scripting
- Documentation
- Data Extraction
- Configuration Management
- Change Control
ISO 9000
- IT Management
- Infrastructure Architecture
- Aviation
- Recruiting
- Market Analysis
- Law
- Lifecycle Management
- Software Development
- Adobe AIR
- Level Design
- Budget
- Technical Direction
- Drawing
- Bill Of Materials
- Version Control
- Physical Layer
- Design Review
- Procurement
- RMA
- Regulatory Compliance
- Cabling
- Information Technology
- Computer Science
- Structured Cabling
- Distribution
- Network
- Computer Hardware
- Computer Networking
- Switches
- VLAN
- Optical Fiber
- Media
- Microsoft Visio
- Electrical Wiring
- Communication
- Artificial Intelligence
- Workflow
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Network+
- Cisco Certifications
- Network Engineering
- Scripting
- Documentation
- Data Extraction
- Configuration Management
- Change Control
ISO 9000
- IT Management
- Infrastructure Architecture
- Aviation
- Recruiting
- Market Analysis
- Law
- Summary Leidos is seeking an Infrastructure Implementation Engineer to join the Air Traffic Business Area within the Homeland Sector, supporting the design, implementation, and lifecycle management of lab and data center infrastructure.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Develop low-level infrastructure designs from approved architectural concepts, including rack elevation drawings, wiring lists, port/patch-panel assignments, cable schedules, and bills of material.
- Produce installation work packages (methods of procedure, sequencing, prerequisites, acceptance criteria) that enable technicians to independently and that satisfy corporate and customer deliverable and auditable requirements.
- Commission new installations and own punch-list resolution. You confirm implemented state matches design intent, coordinate with system administrators on readiness verification, and drive discrepancies to closure.
- Maintain authoritative as-built documentation and configuration baselines. This means processing redlines, reconciling drawings against physical state, keeping version control current, and ensuring you can always trace from design to implementation to change history.
- Provide technical work direction to hardware technicians when onsite. You assign tasks from active work packages, keep awareness of progress, resolve field questions against design intent, and redirect effort when priorities shift.
- Serve as the engineering escalation point for physical/integration troubleshooting: Layer 1 failures, patching discrepancies, optic faults, power-feed issues, and documentation mismatches.
- Lead design reviews for your environments. You prepare and present the review package, defend your implementation decisions, and drive findings to resolution before construction proceeds.
- Interface with procurement and engineering departments on hardware delivery and RMA.
- Develop and improve engineering standards, templates, labeling schemes, and repeatable deployment processes.
- Support compliance implementation by ensuring physical installations conform to applicable security standards, network segmentation requirements, cable-path separation, and labeling standards.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, information technology, computer science, or a related field and at least 4 years of relevant experience, or a master's degree with at least 2 years of experience.
- Demonstrated experience producing detailed infrastructure documentation.
- Practical understanding of data center or lab infrastructure: structured cabling, power distribution, rack systems, and network hardware.
- Experience with commissioning, validating, or accepting infrastructure installations.
- Familiarity with networking fundamentals sufficient to make port-assignment and connectivity decisions (switching, VLANs, patching, fiber/copper media selection).
- Proficiency with Visio, CAD, or equivalent diagramming tools for rack layouts, floor plans, and wiring diagrams.
- Comfortable working across multiple concurrent projects with shifting priorities and compressed timelines.
- Willingness to learn complex, non-standard environments that take time to understand.
- Clear and effective verbal and written communication. Able to translate complex architectural intent into unambiguous, executable work products.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a favorable Public Trust investigation.
- ship.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with AI-assisted engineering workflows and tool-building (e.g., Claude Code, Copilot, custom automation leveraging large language models for documentation generation, validation, or data extraction).
- Net+, CCNA, or equivalent network implementation experience.
- Experience with infrastructure source-of-truth platforms (NetBox or similar).
- Experience with scripting or automation applied to infrastructure documentation, validation, or data extraction.
- Familiarity with configuration management and change-control processes in regulated or quality-managed environments (ISO 9001 or equivalent).
- Experience in technical leadership capacity.
- Familiarity with data center infrastructure design standards (TIA-942 or similar).
- Prior experience in FAA, civil aviation, or government lab environments. If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo
- because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30
- and moving faster than anyone else dares.
Original Posting:
August 24, 2026 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 $87,100.00- $157,450.