Network Engineer

Job Description

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Our flexible work environment provides you a chance to change the world without giving up your personal life. We put our customers first – exemplified by our mission: “We Protect Those Who Protect Us®.” Sound like a team you want to be a part of? Come build your career with BAE Systems.

In Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and

Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Systems, you’ll help develop systems that sense, control, exploit and disseminate actionable information to warfighters supporting a variety of missions.

Embark on a journey of innovation with BAE Systems’ Platform Engineering group, where we seek a self-motivated Network Engineer. In this role, you will be at the forefront of implementing robust, scalable, and highly available network solutions. We are looking for a Network specialist with experience in network architecture, implementation, and operations. This position is a valued member within the Platform Engineering (PE) team. The Network specialist is at the forefront of implementing robust and advanced network infrastructure across a multi-region private cloud. The Network specialist works closely with specialists from the Operations, Platform DevOps, Site Reliability, and Security teams to architect, implement, evolve, and maintain the next generation Platform Engineering network.

Our organization provides an enterprise grade engineering development environment so that engineers can rapidly experiment and prototype new technologies. Your responsibility extends beyond solving existing problems; it’s about anticipating and addressing future capacity, demand, and technological needs. We believe in investing in our people and training is available to achieve appropriate vendor certifications for this role.

Key Responsibilities:

Engineering and Design

Support and deploy complex multi-site, multi-tenant networks, which enforce traffic segregation

Support document outages, implementation changes, and system reference architectures

Implement industry best practices for network design and implementation

Maintain current documentation for network infrastructure

Operations and support

Leverage network orchestration technologies like Juniper Apstra, or Cisco vManage

Install, configure, maintain, and decommission data center network infrastructure

Use routing protocols like BGP or OSPF to interconnect networks, and to build highly available datacenter services

Operate in a mixed hardware environment and work with diverse product vendors

Incident Response

Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis, support a blameless post-mortems culture

Troubleshoot complex issues that arise on development and interconnected networks

Automation

Use existing tools to automate network operations to increase efficiency, enforce configurations, and ensure repeatability with tools like Ansible, Terraform, or Python

Please note that pursuant to a government contract, this specific position requires US citizenship status.

Because this role involves a combination of collaborative/in-person and independent work, it will take the form of a hybrid work format, with time split between working onsite and remotely.

Required Education, Experience, & Skills

Professional Skills

• Experience troubleshooting and resolving problems in a production environment
• Ability to research solutions to problems and propose viable solutions
• Ability to work with multiple teams to accomplish complex tasks
• Comfortable working with multiple vendors in a heterogeneous environment
• Must be able to obtain a Security+ or equivalent security certification within 6 months of starting
• Technical skills
• Familiarity with at least one virtualization platform such as VMware, Azure Stack, or Open Stack
• Experience with at least one LAN switching technology such as VLANS, spanning tree, and ether-channel
• Familiarity with network routing protocols such as Static OSPF & BGP
• Comfortable with Firewall routing, policy, and inspection
• Familiarity with configuring and managing NAT devices
• Experience with IP-Sec VPNs and GRE
• Ability to obtain a Secret Clearance

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

• Experience with various WAN technologies such as MPLS and Ethernet
• Knowledge of network virtualization and SD-WAN
• A basic knowledge of programming languages like Python
• Experience with Juniper network devices and Apstra network orchestration tools
• Understand EVPN-VXLAN overlay architectures
• Familiarity with multicast technologies and anycast routing
• Experience in data center cabling and networking standards
• Familiarity with public cloud technologies
• Security + or equivalent certification

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $92290 – $156860

Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.

Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.

About BAE Systems Electronic Systems

BAE Systems, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, an international defense, aerospace and security company which delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it’s what we do at BAE Systems. Working here means using your passion and ingenuity where it counts – defending national security with breakthrough technology, superior products, and intelligence solutions. As you develop the latest technology and defend national security, you will continually hone your skills on a team—making a big impact on a global scale. At BAE Systems, you’ll find a rewarding career that truly makes a difference. Electronic Systems (ES) is the global innovator behind BAE Systems’ game-changing defense and commercial electronics. Exploiting every electron, we push the limits of what is possible, giving our customers the edge and our employees opportunities to change the world. Our products and capabilities can be found everywhere – from the depths of the ocean to the far reaches of space. At our core are more than 14,000 highly talented Electronic Systems employees with the brightest minds in the industry, we make an impact – for our customers and the communities we serve.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

At BAE Systems, we work hard every day to nurture an inclusive culture where employees are valued and feel like they belong. We are conscious of the need for all employees to see themselves reflected at every level of the company and know that in order to unlock the full potential of our workforce, everyone must feel confident being their best, most sincere self and be equipped to thrive. We provide impactful professional development experiences to our employees and invest in social impact partnerships to uplift communities and drive purposeful change. Here you will find significant opportunities to do meaningful work in an environment intentionally designed to be one where you will learn, grow and belong.

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