Senior Network Engineer

Company Overview

Iridium is an award-winning and innovative satellite communications company with bragging rights to the only network that offers voice and data connectivity anywhere in the world.   For over 20 years, Iridium’s unique network and services have supported critical communications needs for individuals, businesses, and the evolving Internet of Things.

 

At Iridium, we understand the importance of staying connected and the limitations of traditional communications networks. People across the globe, including first responders, humanitarians, global militaries, scientific researchers, and lone workers, as well as ships, aircraft and remote operations all rely on Iridium to stay connected. We take our responsibility for providing these essential communications very seriously and pride ourselves on offering a reliable lifeline when needed.  Likewise, Iridium is committed to providing an exciting and innovative workplace, where employees are challenged to think outside the box and collaborate on new, bold ideas and solutions.  Our talented teams are passionate about their work and the impact our company makes around the world.  Iridium fosters an empowering and inclusive culture that allows employees to genuinely be their best selves.   We are looking for others who want to join this truly unique company that celebrates our employees and provides the opportunity to truly make a difference in the world.

What We’re Looking For:

If you are passionate about deploying disruptive technology, then you will be excited about the Senior Network Engineer opening with Iridium. As Senior Network Engineer, you will play a key role in development, integration, troubleshooting, and testing of the Iridium’s Government customer network 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 our government customer’s network availability, performance, security, and reliability.

What You’ll Do:

• 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.
• 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. Apply industry-standard security best practices to protect network infrastructure from vulnerabilities. Implement and maintain best practices for hardening network devices.
• 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
• 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 and share your 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, and work with vendors and service providers to evaluate, procure, and manage networking hardware and software solutions

What You’ll Need to Succeed:

• 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,