Network Automation Engineer

Tech9; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation or signing bonus

Medical / Dental / Vision

401K with company match

Health savings account

Vacation

HubZone stipend

Job summary

Boarhog is seeking a Tactical Networks FR S Network Automation Engineer to sustain and upgrade fielded shipboard networks. You will support the Transport Sustainment Engineering Team with troubleshooting, baseline upgrades, cybersecurity posture improvements, and automation development.

The role requires hands-on Cisco ISE/NAC, STIGs, and network security expertise, plus experience with Ansible or PowerShell for automation. The position is hybrid in San Diego with limited travel.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Cisco ISE or NAC technologies and policy enforcement.
• Strong network security knowledge and ability to apply STIGs.
• Experience creating automation artifacts (Ansible, PowerShell).
• Experience troubleshooting shipboard networks across CANES or similar Navy environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide sustainment support for fielded shipboard networks, including troubleshooting and configuration updates.
• Lead upgrades to network baselines across deployed configurations.
• Implement and sustain Cisco ISE/NAC and 802.1X, MAB, AAA, RADIUS, TACACS+, TrustSec policies.
• Evaluate and implement STIGs on network appliances to improve cybersecurity posture.
• Develop automation tooling (Ansible playbooks, PowerShell scripts).
• Troubleshoot Cisco routers, switches, firewalls, wireless, AnyConnect, and Secure Client within CANES.
• Support analysis and resolution of baseline-specific issues for shipboard deployments.
• Process ECRs and work within Agile/DevOps for iterative improvements.
• Participate in change management with proper documentation and approvals.
• Maintain configuration documentation and technical guides.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and PMWs for sustainment activities.

Skills

Cisco ISE/NAC

Network security

Automation artifacts

Troubleshooting

Agile/DevOps

Independent/collaborative work

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

Ansible

PowerShell

Job description

Boarhog is in search of a Tactical Networks Fleet Readiness and Sustainment (FRS) Network Automation Engineer to provide direct engineering support to the Transport Sustainment Engineering Team, focusing on the sustainment, troubleshooting, modernization, and upgrade of fielded shipboard networks. The Network Automation Engineer will participate in the resolution of complex shipboard network issues, implementing configuration updates, improving security posture, and supporting lifecycle sustainment of deployed systems.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide engineering sustainment support for fielded shipboard networks, including troubleshooting, maintenance, configuration updates, and optimization.
• Lead and assist with upgrades to network baselines, ensuring compatibility, compliance, and reliability across multiple deployed configurations.
• Implement and sustain Cisco ISE/NAC solutions including 802.1X, MAB, AAA, RADIUS, TACACS+, TrustSec policies, C3PL, licensing, and endpoint profiling.
• Evaluate, mitigate, and implement STIGs on network appliances and shipboard systems to improve cybersecurity posture.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance automation tooling for network sustainment, including Ansible playbooks, Powershell scripts, and other automation workflows.
• Troubleshoot issues across various Cisco platforms such as routers, switches, firewalls, wireless infrastructure, AnyConnect, and Secure Client within CANES and related environments.
• Support engineering analysis and resolution of baseline‑specific issues affecting shipboard network deployments.
• Process Engineering Change Requests (ECRs) and work within Agile and DevOps practices to support iterative improvements to deployed transport systems.
• Participate in change management processes, ensuring proper documentation, review, and approval workflows for sustainment updates and configuration changes.
• Contribute to development and maintenance of configuration documentation, sustainment procedures, technical guides, and engineering artifacts.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional engineering teams and PMWs to ensure alignment and smooth execution of sustainment and upgrade activities.

POSITION-SPECIFIC REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Hands‑on experience with Cisco ISE or NAC technologies, including authentication, authorization, profiling, TrustSec, and policy enforcement.
• Strong understanding of network security fundamentals and ability to apply and validate STIGs.
• Experience developing automation artifacts such as Ansible playbooks, Powershell scripts, or similar tools.
• Ability to troubleshoot across multiple baselines, configurations, and shipboard network deployments within CANES or similar Navy environments.
• Familiarity with Agile processes, ECR workflows, DevOps concepts, and change management practices.
• Experience supporting Cisco routers, switches, firewalls, wireless networks, ACL development, and multi‑vendor troubleshooting.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast‑paced operational sustainment environment.

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience working with NAVWAR, NIWC Pacific, and PEO C4I Program Offices.
• Experience with Navy initiatives and PMW 160 systems (e.g., Consolidated Afloat Network Enterprise Systems (CANES), Platform Application Services (PAS), Agile Core Services (ACS), Automated Digital Network System (ADNS)).
• CCNA certification
• Security+ certification

LOCATION

Hybrid‑site billet located in San Diego, CA. Less than 10% travel is anticipated.

EXPERIENCE

Minimum of three (3) to five (5) years professional experience in network or systems engineering, preferably with direct support to DoW or Navy programs.

EDUCATION

Bachelor's level degree in an engineering discipline, or an additional four (4) years experience supporting engineering of DoW systems.

CLEARANCE

Secret, TS/SCI preferred

BOARHOG CULTURE, COMPENSATION and BENEFITS

Boarhog has over 14 years of focused and dedicated Maritime Industrial Base (MIB) steady, controlled growth and profitability, offering our full‑time associates extensive compensation benefits:

• Earned performance bonus.
• Relocation or signing bonus
• Medical / Dental / Vision Health Benefits.
• Broad Self-Determination
• Generous 401K retirement plan after six months of full‑time employment, with pre‑tax/post‑tax options and company matching with immediate vesting to boost retirement savings
• Health savings account.
• Vacation
• Stipend for residing in a HUBZone location (https://maps.certify.sba.gov/hubzone/map).
• We offer opportunities for additional compensation working short term innovation projects.

We thrive in a welcoming culture within an utterly flat organization. How flat? Nobody has ever or will ever make a living with Boarhog watching other associates do work. There's no company CEO, or President, Vice Presidents, or supervisors. The word "employee" is not spoken and appears nowhere in company documents, because every one of us is an associate. We demonstrate a vested interest in our associates' personal and professional goals and aspirations, taking pride in the resulting exceedingly low associate turnover rate (we're not a staffing company body shop... there are no recruiters paid to jam warm bodies in seats), so we thrive at the top of the learning curve. Boarhog's Managing Member and co-founder served 21 years on active duty as a U.S. Navy SWO and is a member of the Navy's Acquisition Professional Community. We are Pigs in the Breakfast... with skin-in-the-game... the story behind the logo and our website https://www.BoarhogLLC.com. Come join us!