Senior Starshield Network Engineer

InvestedintheMission; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Discretionary bonuses

401(k) retirement plan

Medical, vision, dental coverage

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Job summary

SpaceX’s Starshield program seeks a Sr. Network Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize the service provider network supporting national security missions. You will own network design, monitor security, and improve performance and reliability across datacenters and interconnections.

Responsibilities include capacity planning, troubleshooting, and building automation. A Top Secret / Top Secret SCI clearance is required or pursued, with willingness to travel domestically and globally as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or engineering field with 5+ years' networking experience, or 7+ years without a degree.
• Hands-on datacenter hardware deployment and remote hands experience.
• Experience bringing up switches, routers, firewalls and servers.
• Professional Layer-1 experience (DWDM, fiber, circuit troubleshooting).

Responsibilities

• Manage and expand network interconnections, co-location sites and POPs.
• Manage network infrastructure deployments to Top Secret datacenters.
• Improve network performance and reliability based on performance metrics.
• Assist in capacity augmentation and network optimization deployments.
• Lead network integration and troubleshooting efforts.
• Collaborate with hardware, software, and network engineers to improve Starshield design.
• Assist in updating system configuration and firmware.
• Build automation for network devices and deployment tools.
• Mentor and train junior network engineers.

Skills

Networking experience

Layer-1 experience

Datacenter deployment

Network security

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical or engineering discipline

Master’s degree in a technical or engineering discipline

Tools

Cisco/Juniper/Arista certifications

Job description

SpaceX’s Starshield program seeks a Sr. Network Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize the service provider network supporting national security missions. You will own network design, monitor security, and improve performance and reliability across datacenters and interconnections.

Responsibilities include capacity planning, troubleshooting, and building automation. A Top Secret / Top Secret SCI clearance is required or pursued, with willingness to travel domestically and globally as needed.