Senior Network Engineer

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:

The Senior Network Engineer will play a key role in development, integration, monitoring, and testing of the Iridium Mission, Commercial, and Enterprise networks' infrastructure. Responsibilities include designing, implementing, monitoring, and maintaining functional network infrastructure and equipment, performing network testing, validation, and troubleshooting to ensure a fault-tolerant, reliable, scalable, and automated infrastructure across Iridium's Mission, Commercial, and Enterprise networks. In this role, you will be responsible for configuring and maintaining Local and Wide Area Network infrastructure equipment and devices. You will also participate, and at times lead, the design and implementation of solutions that follow industry best practices.

What You'll Do:

Support operations and engineering activities of the Iridium Commercial, Mission, and Enterprise networks and manage Local Area Networks and Wide Area Networks spanning across multiple sites.
• 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 to identify and autonomously implement ideas and solutions that create added value for the team and the program and constantly improve the daily maintenance and operations of the Iridium Commercial, Mission, and Enterprise networks across multiple sites.

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 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, VTP, and VSS.
• Excellent network troubleshooting and problem-solving skills in a high-pressure environment. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly summarize information about networking products, concepts, and/or issues to individuals outside of our team and to provide knowledge-based recommendations to management.
• Have confidence and be able to build relationships with leadership and colleagues outside of our 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.
• Capable of prioritizing your own tasks and potentially the tasks of others while making sure deadlines are met.

Things That Would be Great if You Brought to the Table:

• Network Certifications like CCNP or CompTIA Network+
• Experience configuring and managing AWS cloud features, solutions, and services such as VPC, Transit Gateway, and/or AWS partners virtual routers like the Cisco CSR or similar products
• Experience working in a Linux environment and with VMware or other hypervisor virtualized environments
• Well versed in use of MS PowerPoint, Excel, and Visio

We'll also need you to:

• 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 able to work a hybrid schedule that includes 3 days in-office and 2 days from home
• US citizenship required

Work Environment:

This position primarily works in an office setting and is largely sedentary with the majority of the position working with a computer. The role typically requires the use of basic office equipment such as a phone, video, computer, keyboard, mouse, and printer.

Iridium is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or status as a protected veteran. EOE of Minorities/Females/Vets/Disability and other protected categories.