Network Engineer W2

Louisville, CO, 397 S Taylor Avenue, 80027

6+ Months CTH

Overview

The Client is building out the network for a new manufacturing and engineering facility within a space technology and satellite systems company, — a site with a high-bay manufacturing floor, test equipment, purpose-built servers, and specialized devices used to configure and operate satellite systems. This role owns the physical network build: configuring all switching, routing, and firewalls in the facility, establishing the secure transport layer that connects the site to a new AWS environment and to a third-party satellite ground station provider, and operationalizing the network with configuration backup and recovery from day one.

The facility network must be operational to support an end-of-October 2026 program milestone.

Required Qualifications

• Strong hands-on enterprise network engineering experience: L2/L3 switching, routing, and firewall configuration in production environments.
• Direct experience configuring Arista switching platforms.
• Direct experience configuring Palo Alto firewalls, including both physical appliances and VM-Series virtual firewalls in AWS.
• Experience designing and operating site-to-cloud and site-to-partner secure tunnels (IPsec/VPN) with redundancy.
• Demonstrated operational discipline: configuration backup/restore workflows, device lifecycle and RMA replacement processes, and disaster recovery for network configurations.
• Ability to work on site in the Centennial/Louisville area during the physical build-out phase.
• Due to the nature of work, must be a US Citizen, green card holder, or permanent resident with the ability to access CUI, ITAR, and Export Controlled data; must be able to pass a background check that includes insider threat screening.