Senior Network Engineer

Iridium Satellite, LLC•Chandler, AZ

10h•Hybrid

About The Position

Iridium is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to play a key role in the development, integration, troubleshooting, and testing of the Iridium’s Government customer network infrastructure. The successful candidate 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. This role involves determining methods and procedures, independently coordinating activities of other personnel, and leading the implementation of ideas and solutions to improve the government customer’s network availability, performance, security, and reliability.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related 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 understanding and hands-on experience configuring and maintaining routing protocols such as OSPF, EIGRP, and BGP.
Knowledge and hands-on experience configuring and maintaining networking protocols and features such as VLANs, STP, VDC, VFR, VPC, and VSS QoS, VPNs.
Knowledge and hands-on experience configuring and maintaining security features such as firewall polices, network segmentation, intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS), and VPN configurations.
Knowledge of network security frameworks (e.g., NIST, CIS, ISO 27001), hardening network infrastructure, experience with or knowledge of USG IAVA and STIG processes and procedures, and knowledge of security compliance standards (e.g., PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR) as they relate to network security.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey products, deliverables, analyses, and/or issues to groups outside of your team or those who are unfamiliar with the topic.
Confidence and ability to easily build relationships with leadership and colleagues outside of your team.
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.
Proactive in providing feedback and enthusiastic in sharing knowledge with others.
Capable of prioritizing own tasks and potentially the tasks of others while making sure deadlines are met.
Ability to obtain a Secret Security Clearance and potential to obtain a Top-Secret Security Clearance (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active).
Must be a US Citizen.

Nice To Haves

Certifications such as Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) (or higher) and Fortinet Network Security Certified Professional are preferred.
Other certifications (e.g., CompTIA Security+, CISSP) are a plus.
Experience configuring and managing AWS cloud features, solutions, and services such as VPC, Transit Gateway, and AWS third party commercial network tools and products such as virtual routers and firewalls.
Experience with configuration management, application deployment, provisioning, and orchestration tools such as Ansible.
Experience working in a Linux environment and with VMware or other hypervisor virtualized environments.
Well versed in use of MS PowerPoint, Excel, and Visio.
An active/current SECRET (or TOP-SECRET) security clearance.

Responsibilities

Independently perform installation, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of networking devices including Cisco devices (ISR/ASR Routers, Catalyst and Nexus switches), firewalls (Fortinet and Palo Alto), and AWS Cloud services.
Develop and maintain security policies, configure and update firewall rules, regularly audit network configurations and access controls, and apply industry-standard security best practices to protect network infrastructure from vulnerabilities.
Implement and maintain best practices for hardening network devices.
Use 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.
Support real-time troubleshooting and problem resolution support and provide 24x7 assistance as needed.
Analyze network traffic, identify bottlenecks, and implement solutions.
Create and maintain network documentation, including network diagrams, configurations, security policies, and procedures.
Adhere to Configuration Management rules required to meet compliance.
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior network engineers and support cross-functional efforts.
Share expertise with colleagues to identify and autonomously implement ideas and solutions that create added value for the team and the program.
Strive to improve the daily maintenance and operations of the Iridium’s government and commercial networks across multiple sites.
Conduct research on network products, services, protocols, and standards to remain abreast of developments in the network industries, technologies, and best practices.
Work with vendors and service providers to evaluate, procure, and manage networking hardware and software solutions.