Experienced Network Engineer

$92,290 - $156,860/Yr

BAE Systems - Manchester, NH

Part-time - Mid Level

Manchester, NH

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

At BAE Systems, we are at the forefront of developing advanced electronics that play a crucial role in protecting those who protect us. Our employees work on cutting-edge technology that spans air, land, sea, and space, contributing to missions that require the highest level of innovation and reliability. As a Network Engineer in our Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Systems division, you will be instrumental in creating and maintaining robust network solutions that support a variety of military operations. This role offers a unique opportunity to work in a flexible environment that values both professional growth and personal life balance. In this position, you will be responsible for architecting and implementing complex multi-site, multi-tenant networks that ensure traffic segregation and isolation. You will collaborate closely with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) members and specialists from Operations, Platform DevOps, and Security teams to evolve and maintain our next-generation network infrastructure. Your work will not only involve solving current challenges but also anticipating future capacity and technological needs, ensuring that our network can adapt to the evolving landscape of military operations. We believe in investing in our people, and as such, we provide training opportunities to help you achieve relevant vendor certifications. You will be part of a team that encourages innovation and experimentation, allowing you to prototype new technologies in an enterprise-grade engineering development environment. Your contributions will directly impact the effectiveness of our systems and the safety of our warfighters.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build complex multi-site, multi-tenant networks that enforce traffic segregation and isolation.
• Define and execute service outages, changes, disaster recovery plans, reference architectures, incident root causes, and best practices.
• Maintain current documentation for network infrastructure and architecture.
• Leverage network orchestration technologies like Juniper Apstra or Cisco vManage.
• Install, configure, maintain, and decommission data center networking infrastructure.
• Use routing protocols like BGP or OSPF to interconnect networks and build highly available datacenter services.
• Operate in a mixed hardware environment, working with diverse product vendors.
• Actively participate in incident response and root-cause analysis, supporting a blameless post-mortem culture.
• Proactively troubleshoot complex issues that arise on the development and interconnected networks.
• Automate network operations to increase efficiency, enforce standard configurations, and ensure repeatability with tools like Ansible, Terraform, or Python.

Requirements

• Must be able to obtain a Security or equivalent security certification within 6 months of starting.
• Experience troubleshooting and resolving complex network problems in a production environment.
• Ability to independently research solutions to problems and propose viable solutions.
• Ability to work with multiple teams to accomplish complex tasks.
• Comfortable working with multiple vendors in a heterogeneous environment.
• Familiarity with at least one on-premises virtualization platform (i.e., VMware, OneStack, Azure Stack).
• Experience with LAN switching technologies such as VLANS, spanning tree, and ether-channel.
• Capable of configuring network routing protocols such as Static OSPF & BGP.
• Experience working with data center network technologies, such as DMZs, high availability, and spine-leaf fabrics.
• Comfortable with Firewall routing, policy, and inspection.
• Experience with various WAN technologies such as MPLS and Ethernet.
• Familiarity with configuring and managing NAT devices.
• Experience with IP-Sec VPNs and GRE.

Nice-to-haves

• Security or equivalent certification.
• Familiarity with networking requirements for high performance storage systems.
• Experience with network virtualization and SD-WAN.
• A basic knowledge of programming languages like Python.
• Understand EVPN-VXLAN overlay architectures.
• Experience with VMware network architectures.
• Use of data center orchestration technologies such as Apstra.
• Familiarity with multicast and anycast technologies.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Health savings accounts
• 401(k) savings plan
• Disability coverage
• Life and accident insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Legal plan
• Discounts on home, auto, and pet insurance
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Paid military leave
• Paid bereavement leave
• Federal and state sick leave
• Company recognition program for monetary or non-monetary awards