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, 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
• Have confidence and be able 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
• Be proactive in providing feedback and be enthusiastic in sharing your knowledge with others
• Capable of prioritizing your 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).

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

• 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

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 lift 25 lbs. and climb a ladder
• Must be able to work a hybrid schedule that includes a minimum of 3 days in-office

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.

We believe in-person connection drives innovation, strengthens mentorship, and builds culture, while flexibility enables employees to do their best work. Under Iridium's Hybrid Work Policy, employees are expected to work at least three days per week (approximately 60%) in an Iridium office to support collaboration, relationship-building, and professional growth.

Additional Information

This job description outlines the general nature and level of work for this role and is not a comprehensive list of duties, responsibilities, or qualifications. Employees may be assigned additional responsibilities as needed.

Iridium is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.