Field Engineer

Employer description

Field Engineer

Location: CONUS and OCONUS

Clearance: TS/SCI

Travel Requirement: 75% of the time

The Decision Advantage Business Area within Defense at Leidos

has an opening for a highly qualified TS/SCI cleared Field Engineer. This is an exciting opportunity to bring your experience to support all-domain large-scale weapon systems, Information Technology Systems, and Command and Control Systems to realize the Department of Defense Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2). In this role you will support the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) Digital Infrastructure (DI) Processing Node (PN) team to design and implement solutions that can be delivered at speed, scale, and with the necessary security to deliver operational advantages to the joint warfighter. ABMS is a top modernization priority for the Department of the Air Force and will be the backbone of a network-centric approach to battle management in partnership with all the services across JADC2. This position will work closely with Program Managers, domain engineers, and Government counterparts across Government and Industry partners.  

Primary responsibilities:

Remain available to travel (sometime on short notice) both within CONUS and OCONUS

Conduct site surveys, site installations and configurations, and site acceptance procedures to field products

Interact with and maintain channels of communication with site POCs to support and assist with fielded equipment

Maintain knowledge, skills, and abilities to deploy products and/or special program requests (varies)

Prepare items required (historical logs, documents, checklists, configurations, login, passwords, presentations) for any assigned engagement

Document and upload all notes, feedback, requests, suggestions, and errors for all engagements, to include leading up to, during, and after the engagements

Create out-brief/trip report capturing POCs, completed items, open items, and follow-up actions, and brief report to stakeholders

While not on-site, remain available to answer questions or provide insight, support, and/or updates as required

Review assigned Jira tasks, add comments to provide updates, and move tasks to appropriate category daily

Participate in assigned Scrum meetings and conduct Jira task reviews as scheduled/required

Collaborate with other program members when the need arises to support tasks/work related to other projects

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree and 8-12 years of prior relevant field engineering experience or master’s degree with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience. Additional years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of degree.

Active and current TS/SCI clearance.

Must be able to travel to onsite installations

Demonstrated experience with AWS, Networking, VPNs, IaaS, PaaS, SQL, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Jira, Confluence, Artifactory, and Guacamole (from an administration and troubleshooting perspective)

Knowledge of and experience working with DevSecOps tool chains

Experience in preparing technical documentation

Experience working in a team environment with the ability to mentor junior team members

Ability to configure and troubleshoot cloud, virtual, and physical hardware and software systems

Ability to proactively identify and resolve operational, tooling and process inefficiencies

One of the positions should have strong Jira/Confluence and agile team participation experience (ideally scrum master training).

Required Certification

DOD 8140 IAT II (Intermediate)

GIAC Security Essentials Certification;

GICSP: Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional: SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner

Additional Qualifications/Certifications

Proven experience with military use of commercial/hybrid cloud deployments in operational use.

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Original Posting:August 26, 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 $92,300.00 - $166,850.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.