Senior Network & Infra Engineer On-Site Secret

Karthik Consulting, LLC; California; On-site; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Karthik Consulting, LLC is seeking a Senior Network & Infrastructure Engineer to design, operate, and modernize on-premises infrastructure supporting a platform-as-a-service for Space Systems Command. The role is hands-on, spanning networking, servers, virtualization, storage, automation, and cloud-native components.

You will work with a multidisciplinary platform team, maintain secure connectivity, implement IaC, and troubleshoot complex incidents in a mission-critical environment at Vandenberg

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of experience engineering and operating enterprise networks.
• U.S. citizenship with Active Secret clearance.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise networking including switching, routing, firewalls, VLANs, TCP/IP.
• Experience administering Windows and Linux servers, including scripting.
• Experience with virtualization and enterprise storage; VMware vSphere/vCenter, VMware Cloud Foundation, Azure Stack Hub.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and container networking.
• Experience with automation and IaC (PowerShell, Terraform, Ansible, Bicep, etc.).
• Ability to independently resolve production issues.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, configure, secure, and maintain on-prem networks and platform connectivity.
• Own troubleshooting, performance, and root-cause analysis across compute, storage, and services.
• Collaborate with Kubernetes engineers to diagnose cluster networking and ingress issues.
• Install, administer, and troubleshoot Windows and Linux servers; patching and maintenance.
• Support virtualization, compute, and storage infrastructure; VMware/Azure components.
• Implement IaC and automation to stabilize services and modernize infrastructure.
• Document configurations, runbooks, and collaboration with platform and security teams.

Skills

Enterprise networking

Windows/Linux servers

Kubernetes networking

Automation

IaC practice

Education

Bachelor degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Network Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Bicep

PowerShell

VMware vSphere/vCenter

Azure Stack Hub

Job description

Karthik Consulting, LLC is seeking a Senior Network & Infrastructure Engineer to design, operate, and modernize on-premises infrastructure supporting a platform-as-a-service for Space Systems Command. The role is hands-on, spanning networking, servers, virtualization, storage, automation, and cloud-native components.

You will work with a multidisciplinary platform team, maintain secure connectivity, implement IaC, and troubleshoot complex incidents in a mission-critical environment at Vandenberg