Senior Network Engineer: Satellite‑to‑Cloud Networking

Spire; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Name Your Satellite Program (NYSP)

Launch Attendance

Education Assistance Program

Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Family Leave

Fitness Reimbursement

Employee Referral Program

Healthy snacks & beverages in every оф

Job summary

Spire Global is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to strengthen our on-site network infrastructure at antenna sites, connecting satellites, ground stations, and cloud workloads. You will design and operate L3 networking across satellite, ground, and cloud environments, with a focus on secure, scalable, and observable connectivity.

The role is hands-on, spanning routing, overlay networks, edge systems, and cloud connectivity, with a hybrid work model requiring three days in the office weekly.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with IP networking and routing (advanced level).
• Hands-on with BGP design, operation, troubleshooting; distance-vector protocols.
• Solid IP networking: routing, switching, TCP/IP, VLANs, NAT; Linux networking.
• Experience designing and operating VPNs and tunneling in distributed environments (WireGuard, StrongSwan, GRE/IPsec).
• Experience with AWS networking (VPC, TGW, Cloud WAN, VPN) and edge or hybrid networking.
• Understanding overlay vs underlay networking.
• Strong automation experience (Terraform, Ansible, or similar).
• Interest in distributed systems and infrastructure engineering.
• Scripting ability in Python, Bash, or Go.
• Ability to debug complex distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design L3 network topology across satellite, ground, and cloud environments.
• Implement dynamic routing, route advertisement, filtering, and failover.
• Build secure multi-hop paths with encryption and SSH/firewall policies.
• Develop automation for deployment and configuration management (Terraform/Ansible).
• Align networking with satellite scheduling and improve observability.

Skills

IP networking

BGP

Linux networking

VPNs/Tunnelling

AWS networking

Automation

Terraform/Ansible

Python scripting

Distributed systems

Tools

WireGuard

StrongSwan

GRE/IPsec

Job description

Spire Global is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to strengthen our on-site network infrastructure at antenna sites, connecting satellites, ground stations, and cloud workloads. You will design and operate L3 networking across satellite, ground, and cloud environments, with a focus on secure, scalable, and observable connectivity.

The role is hands-on, spanning routing, overlay networks, edge systems, and cloud connectivity, with a hybrid work model requiring three days in the office weekly.