Principal 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.

As Principal Network Engineer, you’ll be working with senior management and use your knowledge and experience to establish strategic plans and objectives as it relates to Iridium’s Enterprise, Mission, and Commercial networks. You will be responsible for managing multiple activities and projects, collaborating across functional teams, that include designing, implementing, managing, maintaining, and troubleshooting networking and security hardware, protocols, and features necessary to ensure a reliable and scalable network infrastructure.

In this role, you will work independently to determine methods and procedures, to develop, improve or redesign processes, tools, and methodologies within, and outside of, the team, and to contribute to the overall success of our customer and Iridium by designing and implementing solutions that follow industry’s best practices.

• Use your technical expertise and knowledge of Iridium business to collaborate with internal and external teams, to manage operations and engineering tasks and projects, and to provide guidance and recommendations to colleagues, team members, and the management team
• Independently determine methods and procedures that lead to the successful installation, configuration, and management of networking devices such as Cisco ISR/ASR Routers, Catalyst and Nexus switches, Fortinet and Palo Alto firewalls, and AWS Cloud services
• Lead efforts to understand how complex issues are or could be affecting reliable network operations
• Utilises critical thinking skills and an in‑depth evaluation of complex factors to identify, design, and present innovative and creative solutions from concept through completion to support Local Area Networks and Wide Area Networks across multiple sites
• Play a key role in providing technical assistance to Iridium Ops-team with issues related to WAN traffic congestion, latency issues, link outages, and performance, provide authoritative advice to management, and leverages knowledge to enhance process/procedure supporting the Iridium’s Systems’ operations
• Work independently to perform installation, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of networking and security hardware, and operating systems and review work of junior team members
• Conduct research on network products, services, protocols, and standards to remain abreast of developments in the Dev Ops and network industries, technologies, and best practices and transform research to support direction and decision making

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or similar field
• 10+ years of experience managing and maintaining mid‑to‑large scale LAN/WAN networks devices that include Cisco…