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Engineering - Civil
Remote/Hybrid• (Off-Site/Hybrid)
Description:
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.
Pay Rate: $70 - $75 an hour
Location: San Diego, CA (Open to Remote)
Due to client requirement, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.
Responsibilities:
Experience Requirements:
What will help you on the job
Education Requirements:
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.
Pay Rate: $70 - $75 an hour
Location: San Diego, CA (Open to Remote)
Due to client requirement, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.
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 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.
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
- Due to federal security clearance requirements, the applicant must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident with the ability to obtain a Secret Clearance
- Active secret clearance required
group id: 10106647
