Network Engineering Lead
CACI · National Harbor, MD, US ·
- Seniority
- Lead
- Employment
- Contract
- Category
- Network engineering
- Experience
- 15+ years
- Salary
- USD 103,800 – 218,100 / year
Lead a team of network engineers providing 24/7 enterprise network administration and maintenance for a government customer, including troubleshooting, incident response, and personnel management.
The Opportunity:
CACI is seeking a Network Engineering Lead to join our technical operations and maintenance team on a contract supporting the enterprise network and infrastructure at the Department of Homeland Security. This role will serve as both a senior technical network engineer and the lead for the Network Engineering team. The position will be responsible for leading day-to-day network engineering activities, managing personnel, coordinating operational priorities, supporting incident response, and ensuring the team delivers reliable network administration, maintenance, and engineering support in a 24/7/365 environment.
Responsibilities:
Serve as the Network Engineering Team Lead, responsible for overseeing team operations, personnel management, troubleshooting, and maintenance activities. Responsibilities include:
• Serve as the lead for the Network Engineering team, providing day-to-day leadership, direction, and oversight for assigned personnel.
• Supervise, mentor, and support network engineering staff, including assigning work, monitoring progress, and helping resolve technical or operational blockers.
• Coordinate team schedules, workload distribution, coverage planning, and on-call responsibilities to ensure continuous operational support.
• Provide technical guidance and escalation support to network engineers during incident response, maintenance activities, and complex troubleshooting efforts.
• Establish team priorities in coordination with program leadership, operations teams, engineering teams, and customer stakeholders.
• Track team performance against service level objectives, operational metrics, incident response expectations, and project deliverables.
• Support employee performance management activities, including feedback, coaching, goal setting, development planning, and input for performance evaluations.
• Identify staffing needs, skill gaps, and training opportunities to strengthen network engineering capabilities.
• Assist with onboarding new team members and ensuring personnel understand customer processes, security requirements, operational procedures, and documentation standards.
• Lead recurring team meetings, operational reviews, and technical discussions to ensure alignment on priorities, risks, upcoming changes, and customer needs.
• Promote consistent use of approved tools, processes, documentation practices, and change management procedures across the Network Engineering team.
• Serve as a primary management point of contact for network engineering matters, including status reporting, escalations, risks, resource needs, and operational improvements.
• Partner with program leadership to support workforce planning, staffing actions, surge support, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensure team members follow all customer network security processes and procedures and comply with applicable Government policies.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Previous experience leading or managing a technical network engineering, network operations, or infrastructure support team.
• Demonstrated ability to supervise technical staff, assign work, manage priorities, and support personnel development.
• Experience coordinating operational support in a mission-focused enterprise IT environment.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to brief leadership, coordinate across technical teams, and communicate with customer stakeholders.
• Experience tracking team performance, operational metrics, incident response status, and service request progress.
• Ability to balance hands-on technical responsibilities with personnel management and team leadership duties.
• Ability to obtain DoD Top Secret/SCI Clearance
• Ability to obtain Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Entry On Duty (EOD) - Active EOD preferred
• B.S. + 15 years of applicable experience
• Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) certification
• Expert experience (including troubleshooting) with Cisco switches and routers
What You Can Expect:
A culture of integrity.
At CACI, we place character and innovation at the center of everything we do. As a valued team member, you’ll be part of a high-performing group dedicated to our customer’s missions and driven by a higher purpose – to ensure the safety of our nation.
An environment of trust.
CACI values the unique contributions that every employee brings to our company and our customers - every day. You’ll have the autonomy to take the time you need through a unique flexible time off benefit and have access to robust learning resources to make your ambitions a reality.
A focus on continuous growth.
Together, we will advance our nation's most critical missions, build on our lengthy track record of business success, and find opportunities to break new ground — in your career and in our legacy.
Pay Range:
There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications. Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities. Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families. At CACI, you will receive comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.
The proposed salary range for this position is:
$103,800 - $218,100