Network Engineer (On-Site) at Oneida Professional Services
Fort Meade, MD
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Jun 28, 2026
Fort Meade, MD
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A network engineering role supporting a U.S. Defense Department school's IT infrastructure at Fort Meade, Maryland. Day-to-day work covers configuring and maintaining routers, switches, firewalls, and wireless systems across LAN, WAN, and VLAN environments, alongside troubleshooting, security compliance, and documentation. Suited to candidates with five or more years of enterprise networking experience, Cisco familiarity, and eligibility for a Secret clearance. The position is contingent on federal contract award.
Mid level · 5+ years · Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD · Secret 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 $122,950 (middle half $94,320–$159,450).
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 (7)
This position is contingent on award of a federal contract — the role may not materialize.
The clearance requirement is nuanced: an active Secret clearance is listed as 'preferred' under the Preferred Qualifications section, but the posting also hard-gates on the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance and complete a Tier 3 background investigation. The clearance field reflects the hard gate (must be eligible to obtain Secret).
A Bachelor's degree is listed as required but the posting immediately qualifies it with 'additional education, certifications, or experience may be considered in lieu of a degree,' so the degree requirement is set to None.
The role title is 'Network Engineer' but the day-to-day responsibilities (configure, monitor, troubleshoot, maintain existing infrastructure) align more closely with network/systems administration (15-1244) than network architecture (15-1241). Medium confidence given the 'design' and 'modernization' language.
Fort Meade, MD falls within the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD CBSA.
DoD 8140 compliance qualification is described as 'highly desirable' in the Security Requirements section — treated as preferred.
Requires a Secret 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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