Senior Network Engineer Manager (Network Operations Team Lead) at Peraton
Albuquerque, NM
$135,000–$216,000from the description
Jul 1, 2026
Albuquerque, NM
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role leads network operations for a federal program supporting the secure transportation of nuclear materials, sitting at the intersection of hands-on engineering and team management. Day-to-day work spans designing and maintaining classified and unclassified network infrastructure, driving compliance with federal cybersecurity frameworks, leading incident response, and overseeing capacity planning and technology refresh. It suits an experienced network engineer with a background in classified federal or defense environments who is comfortable both managing a team and engaging directly with technical infrastructure.
Senior level · 12+ years · Albuquerque, NM · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $88,443 (middle half $74,299–$105,653). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (10)
The role title is 'Senior Network Engineer Manager (Network Operations Team Lead)' — it blends hands-on senior network engineering with team-lead/management duties. Primary day-to-day work is described as designing, implementing, and maintaining network infrastructure, so 15-1244 (Network and Computer Systems Administrators) is the best fit; 11-3021 (Computer and Information Systems Managers) is a genuine runner-up given the explicit team-lead, mentoring, and vendor-management responsibilities.
Clearance requirement: the JD explicitly requires an active DOE Q Clearance (equivalent to Top Secret) plus eligibility for SCI and SAP access — treated as a hard gate.
Degree requirement: the minimum stated is a High School diploma with 12 years of experience; a Bachelor's or Master's degree is listed only under Preferred Qualifications, so no degree is hard-required.
The network automation/monitoring skill (Ansible, Terraform, Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds, PRTG, Nagios) is listed in the required qualifications section as 'or equivalent,' so it is a hard gate on the capability; the named tools are captured as alternatives to Ansible.
ITIL v4 Foundation certification is explicitly called out as a 'Certification Requirement' — treated as a hard gate.
CompTIA Security+ CE and CISSP appear only under Preferred Qualifications.
AI/ML for network anomaly detection and predictive maintenance appears only under Preferred Qualifications.
The 12-year total experience figure comes from the minimum path (High School + 12 years); the preferred paths are Bachelor's + 12 years or Master's + 10 years.
Ignored 3 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): enterprise routing and switching, NIST SP 800-53, AI/ML for network operations.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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