What are the responsibilities and job description for the Long Haul Network Engineer SETA position at SAIC?
Job ID: 2614407
Location: Chantilly, VA, US
Date Posted: 2026-07-09
Category: Engineering and Sciences
Subcategory: Systems Engineer
Schedule: Full-Time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes - 10% of the time
Minimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI_wPoly
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE
Description
JOB DESCRIPTION:
SAIC has an immediate opening for a Long-Haul Network Engineer with a background in Information Technology (IT) Network Engineering and Project Management to oversee the cost, schedule, and performance activities associated with procurement of Commercial Carrier long-haul circuits. The successful applicant will participate within a team of Systems Engineers and Technical Advisors (SETAs) overseeing the design, delivery, enhancement, and recapitalization of a large-scale, physical layer infrastructure. Ability to travel is a requirement of this position.
DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES:
The successful candidate must be able to:
Qualifications
Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
Location: Chantilly, VA, US
Date Posted: 2026-07-09
Category: Engineering and Sciences
Subcategory: Systems Engineer
Schedule: Full-Time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes - 10% of the time
Minimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI_wPoly
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE
Description
JOB DESCRIPTION:
SAIC has an immediate opening for a Long-Haul Network Engineer with a background in Information Technology (IT) Network Engineering and Project Management to oversee the cost, schedule, and performance activities associated with procurement of Commercial Carrier long-haul circuits. The successful applicant will participate within a team of Systems Engineers and Technical Advisors (SETAs) overseeing the design, delivery, enhancement, and recapitalization of a large-scale, physical layer infrastructure. Ability to travel is a requirement of this position.
DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES:
The successful candidate must be able to:
- Demonstrate a working level knowledge of high-speed, high-capacity optical communications systems and equipment.
- Demonstrate a working level knowledge of high-speed switching layer (SONET, Carrier Ethernet) technologies and architectures.
- Demonstrate a working level knowledge of installation and integration of fiber optic telecommunications systems.
- Demonstrate the ability to perform requirements analysis, schedule reviews, and cost estimations
- Demonstrate the ability to conduct risk assessments and analysis of current and proposed architectures.
- Develop circuit specifications, test methodologies, and exercise testing techniques to verify that circuits meet all required specifications.
- Provide engineering for optical circuit design, integration, testing, and troubleshooting efforts
- Perform technical evaluation of vendor documentation, including network designs and technical details.
- Review daily assessment reports of network health and performance, and provide technical guidance to operations personnel and vendors as necessary to resolve network performance issues.
- Independently interact with network and transport services providers to resolve network anomalies and performance issues.
- Serve as Transport Services site liaison for various locations.
- Update the configuration management database for the customer's transport network.
- Successfully work independently, as well as within team dynamics.
Qualifications
- EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience ; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience. Work experience in the areas detailed in the Description of Duties of more than eleven (11) years in lieu of a degree may be considered
- 10-years' experience with high-speed Terrestrial Telecommunications systems
- PMP certification is a plus, but not required
- ITIL certification is a plus, but not required
- Active Top Secret (TS) / Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance with current poly
Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
Salary : $120,001 - $160,000