Principal Network Engineer

Iridium Satellite•McLean, VA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

As Principal Network Engineer, you’ll be working with senior management and use your knowledge and experience to establish strategic plans and objectives as it relates to Iridium’s Enterprise, Mission, and Commercial networks. You will be responsible for managing multiple activities and projects, collaborating across functional teams, that include designing, implementing, managing, maintaining, and troubleshooting networking and security hardware, protocols, and features necessary to ensure a reliable and scalable network infrastructure. In this role, you will work independently to determine methods and procedures, to develop, improve or redesign processes, tools, and methodologies within, and outside of, the team, and to contribute to the overall success of our customer and Iridium by designing and implementing solutions that follow industry’s 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.
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
Have confidence and be able to build relationships with leadership and colleagues outside of our team.
Can clearly summarize information and confidently present to them solutions and ideas they may be unfamiliar with and presents with confidence and convictiony complex results and analyses
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

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 your technical expertise and knowledge of Iridium business to collaborate with internal and external teams, to manage operations and engineering tasks and projects, and to provide guidance and recommendations to colleagues, team members, and the management team
Independently determine methods and procedures that lead to the successful 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
Utilizes critical thinking skills and an 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
Play a key role in providing technical assistance to Iridium Ops-team with issues related to WAN traffic congestion, latency issues, link outages, and performance, provide authoritative advice to management, and leverages knowledge to enhance process/procedure supporting the Iridium’s Systems’ operations
Work independently to perform installation, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of networking and security hardware, and operating systems and review work of junior team members
Conduct research on network products, services, protocols, and standards to remain abreast of developments in the DevOps and network industries, technologies, and best practices and transform research to support direction and decision making