Senior Network Security Engineer; SDN​/Multi-Enclave

Senior Network Security Engineer (SDN / Multi-Enclave)

Join to apply for the Senior Network Security Engineer (SDN / Multi-Enclave) role at Peraton Labs

3 days ago Be among the first 25 applicants

Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features.

About Peraton Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace.

The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit  to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.

The program, led by Peraton Labs with external infrastructure support, conducts advanced research for the customer on a variety of topics, including cybersecurity, RF solutions, and quantum communications. Mission focus is on developing next-gen tools for detecting cyber-attacks, enhancing network resilience, and improving small-form factor sensor systems while maintaining a focus on cutting‑edge technologies like machine learning and software‑defined networking.

Peraton Labs is seeking a poly cleared Senior Network Security Engineer (SDN / Multi-Enclave) to provide senior technical leadership for the secure design, implementation, and sustainment of network and system architectures across multiple enclaves, including environments with different data protection and classification requirements. In this role you will lead security planning and risk activities, recommend system‑level solutions to meet security requirements, and support our MD‑based government customer in establishing and enforcing trusted relationships among external systems and architectures.

The ideal candidate for this role will bring deep expertise in Software Defined Networking (SDN) and demonstrated security compliance experience within government programs of similar scope and complexity.

This position requires full‑time on-site work at a customer site near College Park, MD.

• Design, engineer, and validate secure network/systems solutions spanning multiple enclaves with varying security boundaries and classification levels
• Recommend and implement system‑level security solutions to satisfy mission, compliance, and operational requirements
• Perform and support security planning, assessments, risk analysis, risk management, including documentation and briefing of risk decisions and mitigations
• Support our government customer in enforcing the design and implementation of trusted relationships among external systems and architectures (e.g., interconnections, cross‑domain dependencies, boundary protections)
• Engineer and secure SDN‑enabled architectures (i.e. controller/overlay models), ensuring segmentation, policy enforcement, and strong access control
• Install, configure, harden, troubleshoot, and support network telecommunications infrastructure and security capabilities
• Develop/maintain network security artifacts such as security design packages, interface control documentation, diagrams, and compliance evidence
• Conduct root‑cause analysis of security or connectivity issues and implement corrective actions that preserve mission availability and security posture
• Provide technical guidance to teams and stakeholders; participate in design reviews, security reviews, and change control activities

• Minimum of 12 years of experience as a Network Security Engineer (or related role) supporting DoD/IC programs, and a Bachelor's in Computer Science, Cybersecurity Engineering, System Engineering, Network Engineering or related discipline. 4 years of additional experience may be accepted in lieu of…