Senior Network Engineer - SWOOP

Iridium Satellite • Chandler, AZ

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Network Engineer will play a key role in development, integration, troubleshooting, and testing of the Iridium Mission, Commercial, and Enterprise networks’ infrastructure. Responsibilities include designing, implementing, troubleshooting, and maintaining the Iridium ground network infrastructure and equipment, performing network testing, validation, and troubleshooting to ensure a fault-tolerant, reliable, scalable, and automated infrastructure. In this role, you will identify, present recommendations, and autonomously lead the implementation of ideas and solutions that improve 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 understanding and hands-on experience configuring and maintaining routing protocols such as OSPF, EIGRP, and BGP and other industry standard protocols commonly used with networking devices such as Spanning-Tree, VRF, VPC, and VxLAN
• Experience with configuration management, application deployment, provisioning, and orchestration tools such as Ansible
• 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)

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with installing, operating, and maintaining SwoopOS and Swoop GroundGuardian
• 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.
• 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
• 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 Cisco, Fortinet, Check Point, and Palo Alto firewalls), and AWS Cloud services
• Maintain documentation, audit logs, and adhere to Configuration Management rules required to meet compliance and to enable team members to assist in problems and apply consistent solutions across different environments and teams
• Conduct research on network products, services, protocols, and standards to remain abreast of developments in the network industries, technologies, and best practices
• Provide real-time troubleshooting and problem resolution support as required and provide 24x7 on call assistance as needed
• Support cross-functional efforts and share your expertise with colleagues across the program to identify and implement ideas and solutions that create added value for the team and the program and constantly improve the daily operations of the Iridium Commercial, Mission, and Enterprise networks across multiple sites

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level