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Business - Support
Carlsbad, CA (On/Off-Site)
Network Engineer:
Job Description
About us
One team. Global challenges. Infinite opportunities. At Viasat, we’re on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world. For more than 35 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the globe communicate. We’re looking for people who think big, act fearlessly, and create an inclusive environment that drives positive impact to join our team.
What you'll do
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. This includes auditing equipment health, identifying faulted units, troubleshooting faults, ordering, tracking, installing, and configuring replacement parts, as well as 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. You will also be working with vendors to get quotes for new parts for the system. Part of your duties 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.
The day-to-day
• 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 etc.
• 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.
What you'll need
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Technology, a related field of study or equivalent years of experience
• 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
• This is a hybrid role located at our main campus in Carlsbad, CA. Must be able to come into the office 3 days/week.
• US Citizenship is required
• Must be able to obtain a United States Secret Clearance
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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.
Salary range
$105,500.00 - $150,000.00 / annually.
Job Description
About us
One team. Global challenges. Infinite opportunities. At Viasat, we’re on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world. For more than 35 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the globe communicate. We’re looking for people who think big, act fearlessly, and create an inclusive environment that drives positive impact to join our team.
What you'll do
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. This includes auditing equipment health, identifying faulted units, troubleshooting faults, ordering, tracking, installing, and configuring replacement parts, as well as 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. You will also be working with vendors to get quotes for new parts for the system. Part of your duties 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.
The day-to-day
• 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 etc.
• 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.
What you'll need
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Technology, a related field of study or equivalent years of experience
• 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
• This is a hybrid role located at our main campus in Carlsbad, CA. Must be able to come into the office 3 days/week.
• US Citizenship is required
• Must be able to obtain a United States Secret Clearance
•
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.
Salary range
$105,500.00 - $150,000.00 / annually.
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