Network Engineer III

Blue Origin•Huntsville, AL

About The Position

The Network Engineer III is part of Blue Origin’s Engines business unit, which designs, develops, manufactures, and tests engines and propulsion systems. This role is on a small, high-impact team responsible for designing, deploying, and operating end-to-end network and infrastructure solutions across test stands, integration labs, and control rooms. Working with minimal oversight, the engineer develops architectures for multi-site environments where operator, controls, and test traffic must be reliable, segregated, and remotely accessible. The position selects and integrates network hardware and supporting infrastructure, holds technical approval authority for its scope, and develops standards, processes, and documentation as the ground segment grows. The initial deployment is in an R&D environment and includes the network and infrastructure supporting test stands, integration labs, and control rooms. The work covers servers, data storage, displays, workstations, remote access systems, and their interfaces with controls and instrumentation. The engineer also defines physical infrastructure requirements, including racks, cabling, fiber, power, grounding, and environmental considerations, in coordination with facilities and electrical engineering. The role leads technical direction, cross-functional coordination, troubleshooting, risk management, automation, configuration control, and field support for installation and commissioning. Travel of up to 25% is expected. Relocation is provided.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
At least 5 years of relevant experience in network engineering, network systems design, or network infrastructure.
Demonstrated ownership of network and infrastructure design, hardware selection, and deployment with minimal oversight.
Strong understanding of network protocols, architectures, and security frameworks.
Experience implementing and managing firewall policies, VLANs, ACLs, and network segmentation strategies.
Experience with network monitoring and management tools such as SolarWinds, PRTG, or similar.
Hands-on experience with Ansible for network automation and configuration management.
Experience selecting and integrating network hardware and supporting infrastructure for mission-critical or operational environments.
Experience troubleshooting and leading root-cause investigations for complex network or communications failures.
Experience mentoring engineers and reviewing others’ technical work.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including presenting technical rationale and risk trade-offs to leaders.
Proficiency using AI tools in an engineering workflow.
Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
Experience designing networks for test, lab, or industrial control environments.
Experience with OT/controls networking, such as industrial Ethernet, PLC or SCADA networks, or IEC 62443 segmentation concepts.
Experience with high availability and redundancy design, including spanning tree, LACP/port-channel, and failover configurations.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code and network source-of-truth tools such as Netbox.
Experience designing multi-site connectivity, including VPN and WAN architectures.
Experience with time-sensitive or deterministic networking, such as TSN, and precision time distribution such as PTP.
Experience with control room, operator console, or data acquisition infrastructure.
Experience developing or owning engineering processes, configuration management, or quality systems.

Responsibilities

Own and design network and infrastructure supporting test stands, integration labs, and control rooms, with primary focus on initial deployment in the R&D environment.
Define infrastructure for servers, data storage, displays, workstations, and remote access systems, including interfaces with controls and instrumentation.
Define physical network infrastructure, including rack layouts, cabling and fiber plant, power and grounding requirements, and environmental considerations, coordinating with facilities and electrical engineering.
Serve as technical lead for network and infrastructure scope, determining methods and procedures and making trade-offs among low-, medium-, and high-performance architecture choices.
Design and implement network segmentation, VLANs, ACLs, and firewall policies to separate and protect operational, controls, and test networks.
Act as the prime technical contact for network and infrastructure scope, negotiating requirements, setting technical direction, and aligning solutions with software, controls, test, operations, facilities, and external vendors.
Lead troubleshooting, anomaly investigations, and root-cause analyses for network and communications failures, and own corrective-action plans through closure.
Provide input to and be accountable for schedule, budget, and milestones for network and infrastructure scope, and communicate technical, cost, and schedule risks to program and technical leaders.
Develop and maintain automation for network provisioning, configuration, and compliance using tools such as Ansible.
Own process and standards improvements for network design, configuration management, and change control.
Author and maintain architecture diagrams, interface control documents, bills of materials, configuration baselines, and test plans, ensuring traceability and configuration control.
Champion and deploy AI-enabled engineering tools to improve team analysis, documentation, and configuration efficiency.
Provide field support for installation, commissioning, and troubleshooting at test sites.
Mentor engineers and review the technical work of others.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
Basic and supplemental life insurance.
Paid parental leave.
Short- and long-term disability.
401(k) with company match of up to 5%.
Education Support Program.
Stock options for regular employees working at least 20 hours per week.
Up to four weeks of paid time off per year based on weekly scheduled hours.
Up to 14 company-paid holidays.
Depending on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on company and individual factors; amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed.