Senior Network Engineer

Peregrine; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 130,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team dedicated to enhancing public safety through innovative technology. As a Network Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in establishing network connectivity and ensuring reliable performance for our customers. Your expertise will help shape our networking strategy and empower deployment teams with software-defined solutions. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment, solving complex challenges while making a meaningful impact on communities across the nation. If you are driven by mission-focused work and eager to collaborate with passionate professionals, we want you on our team!

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Network Engineering with a focus on customer solutions.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across distributed teams.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and core network protocols.

Responsibilities

• Establish network connectivity for customers and monitor services for reliability.
• Develop documentation for shared knowledge including topology diagrams.
• Participate in on-call duties and partner with customers during data ingestion.

Skills

Network Engineering

Communication Skills

Collaboration Skills

AWS

Core Network Protocols

IPSec / VPN Services

Kubernetes

Packet Capture Tools

Virtualization Technologies

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a Technical Field

Equivalent Experience

Tools

Wireshark

tcpdump

ncat

ping

traceroute

dig

nslookup

Job description

Backed by leading investors from Silicon Valley, Peregrine supports public safety agencies across the country — from Los Angeles to Louisville to Atlanta — empowering public servants to improve operations and make better decisions in the moments that matter. Today, our technology is used by customers to serve more than 30 million Americans. We’re motivated to build technologies by partnering with our customers; we listen to their needs, learn from their experiences, and develop effective solutions to help them achieve transformational outcomes. Together, we’re creating safer communities, protecting privacy and civil liberties, and helping everyone in America thrive.

We are a team of public service entrepreneurs who are passionate about solving hard problems. We trust and help each other, and love diving into challenges together. We believe empathy, curiosity, integrity, courage, and excellent execution are key to building impactful software. If mission-focused work is your north star, come build with us. We’re just getting started.

Role

We are looking to add a Network Engineer to expand our small but exceptional Infrastructure team. We need engineers who love taking on hard problems in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. As one of our first Network Engineers, you will work with our infrastructure team to help drive our networking strategy and set the foundation of our networking technology. The team is responsible for building and operating the software required to connect to our customers as well as develop software-defined networking solutions to empower our deployment teams to manage connectivity autonomously.

If this sounds exciting to you, please apply!

About You

• Be the customer’s first point of contact to establish network connectivity
• Monitor network services to ensure they are performant and reliable
• Have familiarity with network implementation patterns present within small, medium and large organizations
• Partner with customers to ensure healthy IPSec / VPN services from our platform to the customer’s on-premise systems
• Partner with Deployment Strategists and customers during the data ingestion process
• Develop and maintain documentation to foster shared knowledge, including topology diagrams, configurations, and standard operating procedures
• Participate in on-call duties as needed

What We Look For

• 5+ years of Network Engineering experience working with customers to understand their technical challenges with the ability to convey reasoning for your solutions
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field, or equivalent experience
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work well across a distributed team of Engineers and Deployment Strategists
• Familiarity with AWS or cloud-native network architectures like GCP and Azure
• Understanding of core network protocols such as: LACP, Ethernet, VLANs, ARP, TCP/IP, Routing Protocols, DHCP, DNS, NAT
• Experience implementing, supporting and troubleshooting IPSec / VPN services across physical and virtual firewall platforms
• Basic understanding of Kubernetes architecture and its related components
• Familiarity with virtualization technologies such as KVM, VMware, Citrix, Hyper-V
• Experience using packet capture tools to resolve network issues such as Wireshark, libpcap, tcpdump or VPC flow logs
• Experience using Open Source and third party tools to troubleshoot networks such as ncat, ping, traceroute, dig, nslookup
• Washington DC / NYC based candidates strongly preferred

* We've learned that people hesitate to apply without quantifiable years of experience. However, what’s most important to us is the kind of experiences you’ve had and the skills you’ve developed along the way. Have well over 5 years of experience? That's great! Have fewer than 5 years, but feel you meet the other requirements? That's ok too! Please apply.

Salary Range: $130,000 - $215,000 Annually + Benefits + Equity (if applicable) + Bonus (if applicable)

Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, certifications or licenses, and specific work location.

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