Senior Network Engineer

Iridium Satellite•Chandler, AZ

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

As Senior Network Engineer, you will play a key role in development, integration, troubleshooting, and testing of the Iridium Mission, Commercial, and Enterprise networks’ infrastructure. You will be responsible for designing, installing, troubleshooting, and maintaining the Iridium ground network infrastructure and equipment to deliver a fault-tolerant, reliable, scalable, and automated infrastructure. In this role, you will determine methods and procedures and independently coordinate activities of other personnel, lead the implementation of ideas and solutions that improve Iridium’s network availability, performance, security, and reliability.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or similar field
8+ 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
Strong knowledge and understanding, and multi-year hands-on experience, of IP routing protocols such as MPLS, OSPF, EIGRP, and BGP
Strong knowledge and understanding, and multi-year hands-on experience, of IP communication protocols such as OSI Model, Spanning-Tree, VDC, VFR, VPC, and VSS
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
Capable of managing and prioritizing own tasks and possibly the tasks of others while adhering 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
Be able to lift 25 lbs. and climb a ladder
Must be able to work a hybrid schedule that includes a minimum of 60% of your time (3 days per week) in-office
Provide dual citizenship information, and screened by HR for approval

Nice To Haves

Experience configuring and managing AWS cloud features, solutions, and services such as VPC, DirectConnect 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 knowledge of Iridium business and technologies, and collaborate with internal and external teams, to support operations and engineering tasks and projects and to provide improvement recommendations to the management team
Independently perform installation, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of networking devices including, but not limited to, Cisco devices such as ISR/ASR Routers, Catalyst and Nexus switches, firewalls (to include Fortinet and Palo Alto firewalls), and AWS Cloud services
Play a key role in providing technical assistance to Support-team related to network traffic congestion, latency issues, link outages, and System performance problems
Deliver Maintenance and Operations of Mission Critical Network Infrastructure systems to support Local Area Networks and Wide Area Networks across multiple sites
Work independently to perform installation, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of networking and security hardware, and operating systems and review work of junior team members
Maintain documentation, audit logs, and adhere to Configuration Management rules required to meet compliance
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
Provide real time troubleshooting and problem resolution for escalated issues as required