Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Simplesense builds and sustains an Installation Resilience Platform that helps military installations protect critical infrastructure and maintain mission readiness. The Senior Network Development Engineer will design and implement software-driven network automation, reusable tooling, and configuration-driven workflows to securely onboard and sustain customer facilities across hybrid-cloud environments. The role also involves network provisioning, validation, security-by-design, technical documentation, code reviews, and mentoring engineers.
Responsibilities
- Network Automation & Infrastructure-as-Code: Lead the design and implementation of reusable automation, tooling, and configuration-driven workflows that manage the lifecycle of Connectivity infrastructure and reduce manual network operations
- Linux & Network Systems: Develop and maintain automation for Linux-based systems and network appliances, including secure configuration generation, system bootstrapping, software updates, network configuration, and automated validation routines
- Network Provisioning & Validation: Translate network onboarding and maintenance needs into scalable technical workflows for provisioning, secure channel establishment, configuration deployment, connectivity testing, monitoring, and sustainment across customer environments
- Security by Design: Build automation and infrastructure patterns that align with zero-trust principles, network segmentation requirements, access controls, and critical infrastructure security expectations
- Technical Design & Problem Solving: Break down ambiguous infrastructure and workflow problems into clear technical designs, implementation plans, and well-scoped engineering tasks
- Engineering Standards: Produce clear design documentation, implementation guidance, and operational handoff materials. Help reinforce strong standards for code quality, testing, and maintainability within the team’s Connectivity engineering work
- Elevate the Team: Provide thoughtful code and design reviews, mentor junior and mid-level engineers, and help grow the team’s software-driven and network-as-code approach to Connectivity engineering
Skills
- • Experience: 5+ years of experience building infrastructure, automation, or platform engineering solutions in complex environments
- • Network Automation Development: Strong experience developing automation and tooling for infrastructure or network systems using disciplined engineering practices such as Git workflows, structured configuration data, scripting or programming, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and code reviews
- • Linux Expertise: Strong hands-on experience with Linux operating systems, system configuration, package and service management, debugging, and scripting
- • Networking Knowledge: Solid understanding of network design, segmentation, VPNs, firewalls, encryption, and secure connectivity patterns
- • Technical Leadership: Proven ability to independently solve ambiguous technical problems within a complex platform or infrastructure domain, drive solution design through implementation, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and support the growth of less experienced engineers
- • Travel: Ability to travel quarterly for Program Management Reviews and team collaboration
- • Strongly prefer candidates residing in the Denver metro area
- • Prior experience working within DoD, Air Force, or Federal contractor environments
- • Relevant technical certifications such as CompTIA Network+, CompTIA Security+, CCNA, CCNP, CCIE, AWS Advanced Networking, etc
- • Experience with OT/ICS, critical infrastructure, industrial networks, facility-edge environments, and network automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Cisco DevNet, open-source routing tools)
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, Life, Short-Term Disability, and AD&D insurance
- Medical travel coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- 401k matching
- Hybrid work arrangement for candidates residing in Denver, CO
- Remote work option for exceptional talent
- Quarterly travel to hub locations for team syncs and alignment
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