Network Engineer

One team. Global challenges. Infinite opportunities. At Viasat, we're on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world. For more than 35 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the globe communicate. We're looking for people who think big, act fearlessly, and create an inclusive environment that drives positive impact to join our team.

We are seeking a highly skilled and expert Network Engineer specializing in networking and infrastructure systems in a rapidly growing environment. This role will support a team that plays a critical role in architecting, developing, securing and maintaining multiple networks and systems withing the Viasat Government organization.

This is a high-impact role designed for an authority who balances visionary engineering with elite problem solving. You will design, build, and safeguard resilient, high-availability, and hardened network architectures across physical and virtual networks. Beyond standard operations, you will act as the final escalation point for sophisticated infrastructure anomalies, maintain standards, and mentor a talented team of engineers to elevate our overall operational maturity.

The successful applicant must be self-motivated and be capable of completing sophisticated tasks with minimum supervision and have the confidence and ability to promote improvements and introduce new technologies.

Operations & Corrective Maintenance: Perform complex troubleshooting across routing, switching, firewalls, compute, storage, virtual machines, and cloud environments. Participate in an on-call rotation to resolve incidents, conduct root-cause analyses (RCA) and implement upgrades or hardware replacements

Architecture, Design & Project Delivery: Lead infrastructure initiatives from concept to deployment. Design scalable, high-availability networks across hybrid environments using zero-trust architecture, micro-segmentation, wireless and secure remote access solutions

Preventative Maintenance & Telemetry: Conduct routine system inspections, backups, and physical maintenance. Proactively monitor performance and capacity using telemetry and observability tools to resolve issues before service impact

Cybersecurity & Compliance: Partner with the CSOC and Security Engineering teams to remediate vulnerabilities and support incident response. Execute quarterly STIGs and support routine Risk Management Framework (RMF) and Authorization to Operate (ATO) compliance activities

Documentation & Automation: Maintain accurate IP Address Management (IPAM), runbooks, network diagrams, rack elevations and System Change Control logs. Build automation scripts for routine provisioning, configuration management and operational workflows

Vendor & Stakeholder Coordination: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, ISPs, and vendors for circuit delivery, hardware installations, and third-party support

• 5+ years' demonstrated experience with routing and switching protocols, firewall policies and virtual machines
• Proven handson experience designing, implementing and supporting enterprise network environments
• Strong expertise in network security, including firewalls, segmentation, encryption (IPsec/TLS), secure remote access and intrusion detection/prevention systems
• Deep knowledge of routing and switching technologies
• Solid understanding of core networking protocols, such as TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, BGP, VRFs, VLANs, VPNs, NAT
• Experience with hybrid cloud networking and cloud-native network constructs (VPC/VNet design, routing, security groups, load balancers)
• Familiarity with network monitoring, logging and observability tools (e.g., SNMP, Net Flow, Syslog, modern NPM tools).
• Working knowledge of compute platforms and operating systems (Windows, Linux, virtualization such as VMware/HyperV)
• Validated expertise in end-to-end network and infrastructure troubleshooting, root cause analysis (RCA), and incident remediation
• Experience with high availability design, failover strategies, and disaster recovery planning
• Superb communication, documentation, and multi-functional collaboration skills
• Ability to participate in after-hours maintenance, cutovers and incident response
• Associates degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems or equivalent technical experience
• Active CCNA, CCIE, CISSP or equivalent professional-level certification
• CompTIA Security+ required (must be obtained within 45…