Network Engineer

Overview Position Title: Network Engineer Location: Annapolis Junction, MD Reports To: Program Manager Job Type: Full-time Clearance Requirement: Active TS/SCI with Polygraph Summary: As a Network Engineer for a recently awarded government contract, you are a crucial architect of the secure transport and infrastructure environments supporting mission-critical operations. We are seeking a dedicated technical problem-solver with expertise in high-assurance network architecture, software-defined networking, and systems integration. In this role, you will design, deploy, maintain, and optimize secure network paths across multi-site datacenters, enclaves, and tail sites, ensuring strict availability, resilience, and security boundary enforcement. This role will support and represent LufCo with our industry partners. At LufCo, you’ll do more than fill a role, you’ll help build what’s next. We offer a people-first, agile environment where your ideas are valued, your impact is visible, and your work directly supports meaningful, mission-driven outcomes. Key Responsibilities: Design, deploy, configure, and maintain high-assurance network infrastructure, routers, switches, and endpoints supporting multi-datacenter VDI environments, secure enclaves, and tail-site connectivity. Provide technical leadership and escalation support for Network and System Administrators to optimize system performance, automate network management, and eliminate infrastructure bottlenecks. Engineer, configure, and troubleshoot network interfaces, one-way diodes, and boundary protection devices to guarantee secure data transmission across cross-domain and cryptographic boundaries. Interface network systems with high-assurance cryptographic equipment, key management devices, and hardware security modules (HSMs) to enforce data protection and key distribution integrity. Implement and sustain customer compliance agents and security controls across network devices to maintain continuous Authority to Operate (ATO). Support Network enterprise mandates, conduct adjacent and complementary network engineering operations, and execute automated configuration management and drift remediation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools. Qualifications: Education: Bachelor’s degree in Network Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline from an accredited college or university. 4 years of professional experience may be substituted for a degree Experience: NE1: 5+ years of demonstrated experience in networking engineering, network defense operations and infrastructure sustainment on programs or contracts of similar scope and complexity NE2: 10+ years of demonstrated experience in networking engineering, network defense operations and infrastructure sustainment on programs or contracts of similar scope and complexity NE3: 15+ years of demonstrated experience in networking engineering, network defense operations and infrastructure…