Principal Engineer II – Aviation Software

Principal Engineer II – Customer Networks

Location:

Germantown, MD – Hughes Network System LLC.

• Define, design, and administer network systems used for data communications.
• Recommend improvements necessary to ensure operation of the company’s high traffic, business‑critical, and internet production environment.
• Manage the load configuration of a central data communication processor.
• Propose and implement network system enhancements that will improve the performance and reliability of the network system.
• Apply capacity planning to business recommendations.
• Address performance analysis, scalability, and service architecture/database administration issues.
• Coordinate equipment orders including terminals and cable installation.
• Upgrade, monitor, test, and service the database and systems.
• Lead the development of next‑generation observability platforms.
• Drive the effort to fully integrate current and existing ITSM platforms into network service management systems.
• Represent divisional Data Governance compliance and strategic data architecture/pipeline planning.
• Guide engineering development of support applications to ensure stable long‑term integrations.
• Lead architectural efforts to ensure design for scale is incorporated.

• Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field plus 10 years of experience in similar roles.
• 10 years of experience in each of the following technologies: C++/Java; TCP/IP, HTTP, SSH, and various networking protocol stacks.
• 3 years of experience in each of the following: DNS, Zabbix NMS platform, distributed containerized architecture, API integrations, device and appliance management, custom monitoring plugins, SNMP, COBRA, SOAP, XML, Kafka, and MQTT.

$ per year.

Employment is contingent on successful completion of a pre‑employment criminal background check, which may include a drug test.