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We are looking for a Network Engineer to join our Viasat Government group! In this exciting role, you will be responsible for supporting the design, maintenance, and modernization of a critical global satellite communications system. You will be updating the network equipment hardware and software in both a lab and production environment, auditing equipment health, identifying faulted units, troubleshooting faults, ordering, tracking, installing, and configuring replacement parts, and identifying and patching IA vulnerabilities. Your duties will include making design changes to datacenter racks to modernize the existing equipment and/or replace end of life parts, working with vendors to get quotes for new parts, and may require travel to deploy new datacenter racks and/or perform maintenance on those racks. Other engineering support duties may include analysis and remediation of networking hardware, operating system, and software security vulnerabilities and documentation of the remediation process.

Pay Rate:

$70 - $75 an hour

Location:

San Diego, CA (Open to Remote)

Responsibilities

Install, design, and troubleshoot LANs and WANs with IPSEC tunnels on all layers of the OSI stack.

Configure, test, troubleshoot and patch modern network routers, switches and firewalls on Cisco, Fortinet and Palo Alto devices.

Maintenance of datacenter rack equipment including servers, network equipment, RF equipment, ethernet and power cables.

Design, test, and deployment of EOL replacement devices to the ground segment of a global communications network.

Supporting engineering efforts for IA remediation of network equipment and applicable software.

Experience Requirements

5+ years of experience working with TCP/IP network design and troubleshooting, Linux systems, Satcom systems, etc.

3+ years of experience working with satellite communication server racks and equipment.

Relevant networking certifications such as CCNA, CCNP, Network+, Security+, etc.

Work experience with procuring and setting up networking and communication systems, RF equipment and peripherals such as ethernet and power cables, PDUs, etc.

What Will Help You On The Job

Experience with network design and device qualification.

Experience with online network device updates and IA patches.

Experience with live production network troubleshooting and maintaining SLAs.

Server room management and maintenance experience.

Some work experience with virtualization technologies such as ESXI, OpenStack etc.

Some experience working with various test tracking and bug tracking tools such as Jama and Jira.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Technology, a related field of study or equivalent years of experience.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

Software Development

Eliassen Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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