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Leidos

Builds technology for defense and civil agencies

Network Operations Center - Network Operations Center, Technician 3

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/21/2026
$48.1k - $87k
Mid, Senior
Shiloh, IL, USA
In Person
IT OperationsNetwork Engineering & Administration
No H1B Sponsorship
US Top Secret Clearance Required

About the job

Requirements
  • Must have a DoD-8570 IAT Level 2 baseline certification (Security+ CE or equivalent) at the start date.
  • Must be able to work in a 24/7 operation.
  • Experience with one or more of alarm surveillance, fault management, LAN maintenance, or performance management.
  • Expertise in three or more of routers, switches, crypto devices, routing, DSN/DRSN, Video Services, Promina, Cisco, Juniper, MSPP, DWDM, and Optical Switching.
  • General understanding of network topologies, both transport and IP.
  • Must currently possess an active Secret security clearance and be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance.
  • High school education and 2–4 years of experience.
Responsibilities
  • Create and update tickets using Remedy.
  • Monitor network events and element management failures in real time on a 24x7x365 basis across multiple monitoring tools.
  • Proactively analyze alarms; provide detailed analyses leading to resolution, including filtering and correlating fault information; identify fault conditions and impacts; isolate root causes; and coordinate correction of faults across the infrastructure.
  • Notify necessary points of contact based on essential or heightened-awareness networks, circuits, or incident locations.
  • Support fault isolation by diagnosing and troubleshooting according to procedures; identify failed network elements such as systems, hardware, software, circuits, or facilities; and perform testing, fault troubleshooting, fault localization, fault logging, and assignment.
  • Support all customers, including by providing global situational awareness support.
  • Correct or replace faulty network elements, coordinating with other service providers as necessary.
  • Verify service restoration after resolving customer-initiated tickets.
  • Restore networks and services to full operation; coordinate with other service providers to track restoration and meet DISN and customer-negotiated service-level agreements; identify failures and their causes and impacts; reroute and normalize services and circuits due to outages, degradation, or Authorized Service Interruptions; reroute routine circuits within 24 hours of notification; document reroutes in the configuration management database; and provide outage updates from technicians and government incident tickets until resolution or a documented path to resolution is identified.
  • Provide 24/7/365 sustainment support for outages and service degradation, including Tier 1 and Tier 2 support.
  • Provide timely situational awareness to leadership and the impacted community upon discovery and ticket creation, using approved communication methods.
  • Work directly with the shift lead and operations and maintenance leadership for guidance.
  • Escalate faults, coordinate with customers and communicate, and update ticket systems and status reports according to procedures between Tier I and Tier II.
  • Record, assess, track, and monitor incident tickets escalated to operational infrastructure.
  • Evaluate and provide feedback on training, standard operating procedures, and operations and maintenance tools.
  • Assist in training network controllers within operations and maintenance.
  • Communicate with the operations and maintenance team and the customer.
  • Provide technical advice and insight to peers and customers to help resolve complex issues.
  • Demonstrate proficiency in several DISN functions, including routers, switches, crypto devices, routing, DSN/DRSN, Video Services, Promina, Cisco, Juniper, MSPP, DWDM, and Optical Switching.
Desired Qualifications
  • Tech control facility or cyber transport experience.
  • Circuit actions and vendor experience.
  • IP architecture experience.
  • Telco NOC or inside-plant or outside-plant experience.
  • Experience with the Microsoft Office suite, including Outlook, Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, and Teams.
  • Experience with one or more of alarm surveillance, fault management, LAN maintenance, performance management, or change management.
  • Additional certifications, including CCNA, CYSA+, CASP, CCNP, JNCIE-ENT, JNCIA-Junos, WCNA, CCIE, F5 Networks Certified Technical Specialist, ITILv4, CCA-N, CCA-V, or SolarWinds Certified Professional Program.

About the company

Leidos develops technology and runs services for defense, intelligence and civilian agencies, as well as healthcare and commercial customers. It combines software and engineering work with systems integration, building secure networks and equipment used in demanding operations. Its portfolio includes medical services, energy infrastructure design and technology that supports military missions, linking specialist businesses under one parent. Customers pay through contracts for delivered systems and services, with payment tied to labor, costs or agreed project milestones. Leidos traces its roots to a company founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Reston, Virginia

Founded

1969

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What believers are saying

  • Recognized sales are growing: Leidos reported fiscal Q2 revenue of $4.56 billion, up 7%, in August 2026.
  • Technical study gets support: Leidos lists 4,092 certification prep courses and tuition assistance for full time employees.
  • Future work includes funded contracts: Leidos reported $10.2 billion of funded backlog in August 2026.

What critics are saying

  • Federal budgets dominate demand: Leidos' February 2026 filing attributed 87% of fiscal 2025 revenue to U.S. government work.
  • Cleared cyber roles restrict access: Leidos' live Fort Meade analyst posting requires active Top Secret clearance with a polygraph.
  • Cost overruns threaten margins: firm fixed price work accounted for 43% of Leidos' fiscal 2025 revenue.

What makes Leidos unique

  • Runway capacity improves through software: Leidos and UK navigation provider NATS optimize landing spacing with Intelligent Approach.
  • Leidos reaches patients directly: its QTC medical exam business connects over 15,000 providers with more than 90 clinics.
  • Leidos builds battlefield hardware: it is the Army's prime contractor for Enduring Shield, a mobile air-defense launcher.

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Benefits

  • Medical, dental, & vision insurance
  • Health Savings account
  • Income protection
  • PTO
  • Paid parental leave
  • Jury duty pay
  • Bereavement leave
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Family Benefits

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

8%

1 year growth

8%

2 year growth

8%
PR Newswire
Oct 14th, 2026
Leidos wins one-year MOD logistics extension to 2029, building on $508M in benefits

Leidos has won a one-year extension to its Logistics Commodities and Services Transformation (LCST) contract with the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD). The deal continues logistics support to the UK Armed Forces through June 2029. Leidos has been prime contractor since 2015. It manages more than 70,000 commodity NATO Stock Numbers, supports distribution to more than 600 locations worldwide, and runs the £83 million Defence Fulfilment Centre at MOD Donnington. The company estimates it has delivered £400 million in benefits to the MOD. During the extension, Leidos will work on supply chain resilience, inventory visibility, and digital capability. The programme supported the MOD through the COVID-19 pandemic and urgent needs related to Ukraine.

INSURASALES
Oct 13th, 2026
Blackstone leads $1B financing for Analogic merger with three Leidos units

Blackstone Credit & Insurance (BXCI) is leading a $1 billion financing package for the merger of Analogic Corporation with three Leidos units: Security Enterprise Solutions, Ports & Borders, and Industrial Automation. The combined business will make imaging and detection technology for sectors such as aviation security and healthcare. BXCI is lead lender and joint lead arranger, alongside HPS, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo. Brad Colman, BXCI's head of healthcare investing, called the deal proof of its strength in building large credit strategies with flexible solutions. Analogic is based in Salem, New Hampshire. Leidos employs 50,000 people and earned $17.2 billion in fiscal 2026. BXCI managed $443 billion in assets at the end of 2025. Roughly 75% of Blackstone's credit assets are backed by institutional and insurance clients.

GFM Limited
Oct 13th, 2026
Blackstone leads $1bn private credit financing for Leidos-Analogic security merger

Blackstone is leading a $1bn private credit financing to support the combination of the security enterprise solutions businesses of Leidos Holdings and Analogic Corporation, Bloomberg reported. Blackstone Credit & Insurance is reportedly lead lender and joint lead arranger, alongside HPS Investment Partners, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo. Leidos, a listed engineering and technology services company based in Virginia, serves government and commercial clients. It generated $17.2bn in revenue in 2025. Analogic develops imaging, detection, artificial intelligence, and automation technologies. Private equity firm Altaris acquired it in a $1.1bn take-private deal in 2018. Blackstone was reportedly also among the lenders in a recent financing for Waymo, which was increased to $5bn.

PR Newswire
Oct 12th, 2026
Leidos joins US Army's Reveille Forge, a "permanent hackathon" for early tech integration testing

Leidos is taking part in Reveille Forge, the US Army's new permanent integration and testing environment, to help spot technology integration problems sooner. The Army set up the site after its Operation Jailbreak exercise earlier this year. Reveille Forge replaces periodic events with a continuous "integrate-first" approach. Government, industry, and academia can test how technologies work together before they reach soldiers in the field. Leidos recently completed Jailbreak Sprint 1.5 at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama. It followed the first sprint at Fort Carson, Colorado, in June, where the company tested its IFPC Inc 2, MXR, and ALPS systems. "Now, Reveille Forge gives the Army and industry an enduring environment to integrate early, test together and mature capabilities faster," said Matt Becker, a Leidos vice president.

PR Newswire
Oct 12th, 2026
Leidos picks X-Bow to supply rocket motors for US Army's low-cost cruise missile

X-Bow Systems, a US maker of solid rocket motors, has been selected by Leidos to develop and produce booster motors for the US Army's new Low-Cost Containerized Munition (LCCM), a low-cost cruise missile. The company announced the deal on October 12, 2026, at the Association of the United States Army annual meeting in Washington. X-Bow will handle design, qualification testing, and static fires before full-rate production in 2027. Leidos will build the munitions in large quantities under the Department of War's "Arsenal of Freedom" initiative. "Modern conflict is decided by how many rounds you can put downrange, not how exquisite each one is," said chief executive officer Jason Hundley. It is the sixth new propulsion program X-Bow has won in 2026. The company recently completed its first major production contract, delivering more than 2,100 rocket motors.