Principal Network Engineer

Principal Network Engineer

Location(s): McLean, VA | Chandler, AZ

Job :

If you are passionate about deploying disruptive technology, then you will be excited about the Principal Network Engineer opening with Iridium. 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 best practices.

• Use your technical expertise and knowledge of Iridium business to collaborate with internal and external teams, manage operations and engineering tasks and projects, and 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.
• Utilize 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 LAN and WAN across multiple sites.
• Provide 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 leverage knowledge to enhance process/procedure supporting the Iridium systems operations.
• Work independently to perform installation, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of networking and security hardware, 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 that include Cisco routers, switches, firewall and other vendors networking technologies.
• 5+ years’ hands‑on experience with designing, configuring, deploying and managing complex networks that comprise multiple technologies and vendors.
• In‑depth knowledge and understanding, and multi‑year hands‑on experience configuring, managing, and maintaining IP routing protocols such as OSPF, EIGRP, and BGP.
• In‑depth knowledge and understanding, and multi‑year hands‑on experience of IP communication protocols such as OSI model, MPLS, spanning‑tree, VDC, VRF, VPC, VSS, NHRP, and MCLAG.
• Excellent network troubleshooting and problem‑solving skills in a high‑pressure environment. Work on issues requiring an in‑depth knowledge of the network and related variable factors and autonomously make decisions or create solutions to address problems.
• Have confidence and be able to build relationships with leadership and colleagues outside of our team. Can clearly summarize information and confidently present to them solutions and ideas they may be unfamiliar with and present with confidence and conviction complex results and analyses.
• Capable of managing and prioritizing own tasks, and the tasks of others, while adhering to deadlines and managing shifting priorities. Leads by example to promote adherence to…