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.

Position Summary, Job Requirements & Responsibilities

What We’re Looking For:

Are you an experienced Network Engineer looking to find your next role in an amazing organization?  Iridium is looking for a Senior Network Engineer to join our Satellite Ops team!  This position will play a key role in the development, integration, monitoring, and testing of Iridium’s  Commercial and Government network infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in network design, implementation, and troubleshooting, with a focus on security best practices and system hardening. The Senior Network Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, securing and optimizing Iridium’s government and commercial network infrastructures, to deliver a fault-tolerant, reliable, scalable, and automated infrastructure.

 

What You’ll Do:

• Lead the design, installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of complex network solutions using Cisco (routers, switches, firewalls), configure security appliances and next-generation firewalls such as FortiGate firewalls.
• 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.
• Lead 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

Experience & Education Requirements / EEO

What You’ll Need to Succeed:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience configuring, managing, and maintaining mid-to-large scale commercial and government networking technologies, protocols, and devices such as Cisco Catalyst, Nexus switches, ISR routers, ASA, Firepower, Fortinet solutions FortiGates, FortiAnalyzer, FortiManager, 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 protocols such as VLANs, STP, QoS, VPNs, SD-WAN, and features such as firewall polices,