Principal Network Engineer

Iridium Satellite, LLC•Chandler, AZ

3d•$147,736 - $192,474•Hybrid

About The Position

Iridium is seeking a Principal Network Engineer passionate about deploying disruptive technology. This role involves working with senior management to establish strategic plans for Iridium’s Enterprise, Mission, and Commercial networks. The engineer will manage multiple activities and projects, collaborating across functional teams to design, implement, manage, maintain, and troubleshoot networking and security hardware, protocols, and features for a reliable and scalable network infrastructure. The position requires independent work to determine methods and procedures, develop and improve processes, tools, and methodologies, and contribute to customer and Iridium success by implementing industry best practices.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or similar field.
10+ years of experience managing and maintaining mid-to-large scale LAN/WAN networks devices that include Cisco Routers, Switches, Firewall and other vendors networking technologies.
5+ years’ hands-on experience with designing, configuring, deploying and managing complex networks that comprise multiple technologies and vendors.
In-depth knowledge and understanding, and multi-year hands-on experience configuring, managing, and maintaining IP routing protocols such as OSPF, EIGRP, and BGP.
In-depth knowledge and understanding, and multi-year hands-on experience, of IP communication protocols such as OSI Model, MPLS, Spanning-Tree, VDC, VRF, VPC, VSS, NHRP, and MCLAG.
Excellent network troubleshooting and problem-solving skills in a high-pressure environment.
Ability to work on issues requiring an in-depth knowledge of the network and relates variable factors and autonomously make decisions or create solutions to address problems.
Confidence and ability to build relationships with leadership and colleagues outside of the team.
Ability to clearly summarize information and confidently present solutions and ideas to leadership and colleagues.
Capable of managing and prioritizing own tasks, and the tasks of others, while adhering to deadlines and managing shifting priorities.
Leads by example to promote adherence to deadlines, policies, and procedures.
Possess an analytical mindset, with the ability to understand a situation or problem and think critically to make decisions and come up with out-of-the-box solutions.
Be available to support 24x7 on-call on an as-needed basis.
Be able to travel occasionally, typically 3 to 4 times per year.
Be a US Citizen; Provide dual citizenship information, if applicable.
Be able to lift 25 lbs. and climb a ladder.
Must be able to work a hybrid schedule that includes at least 60% of your time (3 days per week) in-office.

Nice To Haves

Experience configuring and managing AWS cloud features, solutions, and services such as VPC, Direct Connect Gateway, Transit Gateway, and AWS partners virtual appliances such as routers and firewalls.
Experience with configuration management, application deployment, provisioning, and orchestration tools such as Ansible.
Comfortable working in a Linux environment, RHEL preferred, and virtualized environment.
Well versed in use of MS Office Suite and Visio.
Network Certifications like CCNP or CompTIA Network+.

Responsibilities

Use technical expertise and knowledge of Iridium business to collaborate with internal and external teams, manage operations and engineering tasks and projects, and provide guidance and recommendations to colleagues, team members, and the management team.
Independently determine methods and procedures for the installation, configuration, and management of networking devices such as Cisco ISR/ASR Routers, Catalyst and Nexus switches, Fortinet and Palo Alto firewalls, and AWS Cloud services.
Lead efforts to understand how complex issues are or could be affecting reliable network operations.
Utilize critical thinking skills and in-depth evaluation of complex factors to identify, design, and present innovative and creative solutions from concept through completion to support Local Area Networks and Wide Area Networks across multiple sites.
Provide technical assistance to the Iridium Ops-team with issues related to WAN traffic congestion, latency issues, link outages, and performance.
Provide authoritative advice to management and leverage knowledge to enhance processes/procedures supporting Iridium’s Systems’ operations.
Work independently to perform installation, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of networking and security hardware, and operating systems.
Review work of junior team members.
Conduct research on network products, services, protocols, and standards to stay updated on developments in the DevOps and network industries, technologies, and best practices.
Transform research to support direction and decision making.