Network Engineer at ManTech in USA-MD-Fort Meade
- Company: ManTech
- Location: USA-MD-Fort Meade
- Posted: Sep 17, 2026
- Type: Full-time
- Salary: $141,500.00-$236,000.00
- Experience: 14+ years
Overview
Unlock the secrets of intelligence with MANTECH! Join a dynamic team at the forefront of national security, providing advanced solutions to government intelligence agencies. Since 1968, we’ve been solving the toughest challenges with groundbreaking tech. Explore thrilling projects in Digital Transfo…
Job description
- Unlock the secrets of intelligence with MANTECH! Join a dynamic team at the forefront of national security, providing advanced solutions to government intelligence agencies. Since 1968, we’ve been solving the toughest challenges with groundbreaking tech. Explore thrilling projects in Digital Transformation, Cybersecurity, IT, Data Analytics and Software Development. Elevate your career and make a difference. Your adventure begins now—unleash your potential with MANTECH!
- MANTECH seeks an experienced and passionate, career and customer-oriented Network Engineer to join our team in the Ft. Meade MD area.
Responsibilities
- Support multi-platform, multi-system network solutions. Provision and sustain network infrastructures. Diagnose network performance shortcomings and design and implement performance improvements. Develop, operate, and manage networks in a secure PKI, IPSEC, or VPN enabled environment. Implement routing protocols, QOS, traffic shaping and policing on the network. Research and recommend advanced technologies such as software defined networking and infrastructure as code.
- Provides technical expertise in the management of a public and/or private network such as Internet protocol (IP) networks, wide area networks (WANs), and public switched telephone networks
- Plans, designs, installs, maintains, monitors, analyzes, troubleshoots, modifies and supports network communications systems to provide maximum performance and availability
- Plans, designs, implements and supports local and wide area networks (LANs/WANs) in the areas of Internet connectivity, capacity planning, routing, switching, server load balancing, network security, and wireless
- Evaluates and reports on new communications technologies to enhance network capabilities
- Experience with VxLAN implementation and Software Defined Networking to include Cisco ACI or VMware NSX.
- Scripting experience to include Ansible and Python automation.
Requirements
- 14 years of experience with a Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline or 6 additional years of experience may be substituted for a degree.
- Experience in the implementation and technical support of multi-platform, multi-system networks to encompass diagnosing network performance shortcomings and designing and implementing performance improvements.
- Experience supporting network solutions for complex, high performance systems.
- Experience provisioning and sustaining network infrastructures and have experience developing, operating, and managing networks
- Experience and knowledge of peer-to-peer distributed storage networks, peer-to-peer routing, and application messaging frameworks.
- Active TS/SCI clearance with Poly
- VLAN implementation and troubleshooting
- Data Center build or maintenance
- Virtual infrastructure management, maintenance or troubleshooting
- Software Defined or Policy Based networks
- Scripting (eg Python, Ansible)
Skills
Required
- Network engineering
- PKI, IPSEC, VPN
- Software defined networking
- Infrastructure as code
- LAN/WAN design and support
- VxLAN implementation
- Cisco ACI or VMware NSX
- Ansible and Python automation
Preferred
- VLAN implementation and troubleshooting
- Data Center build or maintenance
- Scripting (eg Python, Ansible)
Benefits
- The projected compensation range for this position is $141,500.00-$236,000.00. There are differentiating factors that can impact a final salary/hourly rate, including, but not limited to, Contract Wage Determination, relevant work experience, skills and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location (For Remote Opportunities), education and certifications as well as Federal Government Contract Labor categories. In addition, MANTECH invests in its employees beyond just compensation. MANTECH’s benefits offerings include, dependent upon position, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Holiday Pay, short-term and long-term Disability, Retirement and Savings, Learning and Development opportunities, wellness programs as well as other optional benefit elections.