OT Network Engineer, Mission Systems

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Design and implement highly available networks, carefully balancing various routing and redundancy technologies depending on unique requirements between production and launch.
• Design and maintain mission data center and site networks in accordance with company network standards. Collaborating with adjacent infrastructure and enterprise teams.
• Evaluate, procure, and deploy network hardware including switches, firewalls, multiplexing and SDWAN appliances.
• Contribute to ever-maturing network automation tooling; implementing configuration analysis, linting, and scalability into the deployment framework.
• Plan and coordinate network outage windows with stakeholders to perform software updates, hardware refreshes, and general network maintenance (sometimes on weekends and evenings).
• Troubleshoot and resolve network-related issues, publishing root cause analysis (RCA) documentation and hosting retrospective data reviews.
• Provide direct networking support during launch and test campaigns and be on-call or provide real-time support as networking responsible engineer during operations.
• Proactively tailors network monitoring to provide ever more valuable operational telemetry with emphasis on issue detection prior to operational impact.

Job requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other STEM discipline and 3+ years of professional network engineering experience;
• Extensive hands-on experience designing, deploying, supporting, and troubleshooting Layer 2 and Layer 3 networks in latency sensitive and/or industrial environments.
• Functional experience with multiple network vendors either in production or lab environments.
• Experience with GitOps and Infrastructure as Code frameworks, both as user and contributor.
• Strong understanding of the OSI model and network standards.
• Hands-on experience with Cisco, Arista, and Juniper data center class switches.
• Experience with Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM) and fiber optics infrastructure.
• Extensive knowledge of common enterprise and media protocols.